Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Habitat – Vegetation Monitoring: FY 2009 - Final Report
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Title:
Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Habitat – Vegetation Monitoring: FY 2009 - Final Report
Creator:
Jay P. Sah
Michael S. Ross
James R. Snyder
Pablo L. Ruiz
Susana Stofella
Nate Colbert
Erin Hanan
Lawrence Lopez
Michael Camp
Publisher:
Florida International University. Southeast Environmental Research Center
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Language:
English

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Subjects / Keywords:
Vegetation monitoring
Sable, Cape (Fla.)

Notes

General Note:
The Cape Sable seaside sparrow (CSSS), a federally endangered species, has remained the focus of several water management operations in the Everglades. To monitor vegetation responses to changes in hydrologic regime and fire events within the sparrow habitat, FIU-USGS researchers initiated a vegetation study in 2002 with funding from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). In the first three years (2003-2005), a detailed account of spatial variation in vegetation composition and structure in relation to hydrology and fire history were documented (Ross et al. 2006). Since 2006, sub-sets of sites in each of six sparrow sub-populations (A-F) have been re-visited annually to address the spatio-temporal changes in vegetation in response to fire events and changes in hydrologic regime. The sub-set sampled each year includes both unburned and burned sites.

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Florida International University
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FI14040714