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Biomonitoring................................................................................................................................................. 38 Diversity of Organisms in Estuarine Communities .................................................................................. 38 General Population Growth and Carrying Capacity in Natural Communities ..................................... 39 Density-Dependent vs Density-Independent Factors .............................................................................. 41 Comparison of r- and K-Selected Species .................................................................................................. 41 Diversity in an Estuary .................................................................................................................................. 42 Diversity of Estuarine Mud Flats ................................................................................................................. 44 Diversity of an Oyster Reef .......................................................................................................................... 45 How is Diversity Measured? ......................................................................................................................... 46 Monitoring Protocol ...................................................................................................................................... 47 Estuarine Bioassessment ........................................................................................................................ 47 D-Net Survey .................................................................................................................................... 47 Quadrat Survey ................................................................................................................................. 48 Hester-Dendy Survey ....................................................................................................................... 49 Beach Bioassessment .............................................................................................................................. 50 Hester-Dendy Survey ....................................................................................................................... 50 Seine Survey ...................................................................................................................................... 51 Mangrove Diameter and Height Measurement .................................................................................. 51 Coastal Florida Adopt-A-Wetland Biological Survey Worksheets Coastal Florida Adopt-A-Wetland Biological Monitoring Form ..................................................... 53 Coastal Florida Adopt-A-Wetland Biological Community Sampling Form (Invertebrates)........ 54 Coastal Florida Adopt-A-Wetland Biological Community Sampling Form (Vertebrates)........... 55 Quadrat Survey Data .............................................................................................................................. 56 Cordgrass Height Data Sheet ................................................................................................................ 57 Shannon-Wiener Biological Diversity Index Worksheet ................................................................... 58 iv DRAFT AUGUST 2015
Mangrove Diameter and Height Measurements ................................................................................. 59 Chapter 5: Physical/Chemical Monitoring ............................................................................................................. 60 Physical/Chemical Parameters ..................................................................................................................... 61 Temperature .................................................................................................................................................... 61 pH ..................................................................................................................................................................... 62 Soil & Sediment pH ....................................................................................................................................... 64 Dissolved Oxygen .......................................................................................................................................... 64 Salinity .............................................................................................................................................................. 66 Settleable Solids .............................................................................................................................................. 68 Turbidity .......................................................................................................................................................... 68 Physical/Chemical Monitoring Protocol .................................................................................................... 69 Physical Monitoring Protocol for Beach Site ............................................................................................. 73 Beach Slope Measurement: Emery Method for Beach and Dune Profiling ................................... 73 Longshore Current Measurement ......................................................................................................... 77 Florida Coastal Adopt-A-Wetland Physical/Chemical Survey Worksheets Physical/Chemical Survey Water Monitoring Form ......................................................................... 78 Longshore Current Data Sheet ............................................................................................................ 79 Data Sheet for Beach Profiling ............................................................................................................ 80 Chapter 6: Problems in Your Adopted Wetland? ................................................................................................. 81 Wetland Watcher ............................................................................................................................................ 82 Dead or Dying Vegetation ............................................................................................................................ 82 Pollution .......................................................................................................................................................... 83 Marine Debris ................................................................................................................................................. 83 Derelict Traps ................................................................................................................................................. 84 Derelict Vessels .............................................................................................................................................. 85 v DRAFT AUGUST 2015
Page 1 and 2: COASTAL FLORIDA Adopt-A-Wetland TRA
Page 3 and 4: Coastal Florida Adopt‐A‐Wetland
Page 5: Table of Contents Acknowledgements
Page 9 and 10: Chapter One Introduction How to Get
Page 11 and 12: Many of the plants and animals that
Page 13 and 14: • Never wade in swift or rapidly
Page 15 and 16: Coastal Wetland Habitats Welcome to
Page 17 and 18: metamorphose, they settle and attac
Page 19 and 20: The silts and soils eventually fall
Page 21 and 22: In Florida there are three species
Page 23 and 24: tall, but individual trees can reac
Page 25 and 26: Black mangroves are the least susce
Page 27 and 28: Buttonwood tree showing the fruit t
Page 29 and 30: Dune formation is a process depende
Page 31 and 32: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conse
Page 33 and 34: Coastal Florida Adopt-A-Wetland Reg
Page 35 and 36: COASTAL FLORIDA ADOPT-A-WETLAND Wat
Page 37 and 38: Leisure Activities Golf course Mari
Page 39 and 40: How to Determine Your Latitude and
Page 41 and 42: Visual Monitoring Visual monitoring
Page 43 and 44: Coastal Florida Adopt-A-Wetland Vis
Page 45 and 46: Chapter Four Biological Monitoring
Page 47 and 48: A high diversity would mean that th
Page 49 and 50: Density-Dependent versus Density-In
Page 51 and 52: cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) i
Page 53 and 54: Distribution and numbers vary accor
Page 55 and 56: Monitoring Protocol 1. Estuarine Bi
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iv.) Identify the different kinds o
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B. Seine Survey (every 3 months) Se
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COASTAL FLORIDA ADOPT-A-WETLAND BIO
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GROUP NAME: SITE NAME: DATE: Coasta
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Cordgrass (Spartina) Height Data Sh
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AAW Group Name: Date: Location/GPS:
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Physical/Chemical Monitoring Physic
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pH Example 0.5 Battery Acid 2.0 5.9
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light source, photosynthesis stops
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closest to the freshwater input, to
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Physical/Chemical Monitoring Protoc
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9. Pour mixture from bottle into th
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important that the disk travels ver
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13. Measure and Record. From the la
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Longshore Current Measurement Longs
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LONGSHORE CURRENT DATA SHEET GROUP
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Chapter Six Problems in Your Adopte
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If your wetland shows signs of die-
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fisheries are closed by FWC for a s
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species from an improperly cleaned
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Who To Call List: Florida Fish and
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Make an Aquascope to Explore Tide P
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Making a Quadrat Quadrats are relat
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How to Make a Hester‐Dendy Sample
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hole in the toe end of the nylons a
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Sediment/wrack samples soaking (lef
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Plastics on filters (grid size of f
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Bibliography Coulombe, D. 1992. The
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Key to Macroinvertebrates Found in
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Body is not soft or not in thick. h
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Phylum Mollusca Class Gastropoda Ol
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Class Bivalvia Continued Eared Ark
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Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustac
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Phylum Porifera Finger Sponge Halic
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Phylum Echinodermata Class Ophiuroi
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Phylum Ctenophora Class Tentaculata
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Low Marsh Zone Vegetation Smooth Co
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Marsh Border Marsh Aster Aster tenu
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Upper Beach Zone Vegetation Orach A
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Primary Dunes Continued Fiddle-Leaf
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Mangrove Swamp Red mangrove Rhizoph
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PIGFISH Orthopristis chrysoptera GR
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BLACK DRUM Pogonias cromis RED DRUM
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STRIPED MULLET Mugil cephalus ATLAN
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SOUTHERN FLOUNDER Paralichthys squa
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Phylum: MOLLUSCA Class: GASTROPODA
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Mytilidae Ischadium recurvum (Rafin
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Phylum: ANNELIDA Class: POLYCHAETA
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Common Fishes of Florida Phylum: CH
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Larimus fasciatus Pogonias cromis M
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Useful Websites Visit these website
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Useful Books on Coastal Wetlands Aj
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A fishery biologist with the U.S. E
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