Project Reports and Publications for the USEPA Everglades Ecosystem Assessment (EEA)/ Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (REMAP)


Project Reports and Publications for the
USEPA Everglades Ecosystem Assessment
(EEA)/ Regional Environmental Monitoring
and Assessment Program (REMAP)

Prepared July 2017

Prepared by: D. Scheidt

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

Email: Scheidt.dan@epa.gov

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USEPA Everglades Ecosystem Assessment (EEA)/

Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (REMAP)

USEPA Website: https://www.epa.gov/everglades/environmental-monitoring-everglades

Website for 2005 program data: biogeochemical, photo documentation, plant
transect, vegetation cover, http://maps.fiu. edu/gm aps/EverREfv ii

Project Reports and Publications

Abbey-Lee, Robin N., Evelyn N. Gaiser and Joel C. Trexler. 2013. Relative roles of
dispersal dynamics and competition in determining the isotopic niche breadth of a
wetland fish. Freshwater Biology 58:780-792 doi: 10. Ill 1/fwb. 12084.

Axelrad, Donald M., Thomas D. Atkeson, Ted Lange, Curtis D. Pollman, Cynthia C.
Gilmour, William H. Orem, Irving A. Mendelssohn, Peter C. Frederick, David P.
Krabbenhoft, George R. Aiken, Darren G. Rumbold, Daniel J. Scheidt, and Peter I. Kalla.
2007. Chapter 3B: Mercury Monitoring, Research and Environmental Assessment in
South Florida. In 2007 South Florida Environmental Report - Volume I. South Florida
Water Management District and Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Axelrad, Donald M., Ted Lange, Mark Gabriel, Thomas D. Atkeson, Curtis D. Pollman,
William H. Orem, Daniel J. Scheidt, Peter I. Kalla, Peter C. Frederick and Cynthia C.
Gilmour. 2008. Chapter 3B: Mercury and Sulfur Monitoring, Research and
Environmental Assessment in South Florida. In 2008 South Florida Environmental
Report - Volume I South Florida Water Management District and Florida Department of
Environmental Protection.

Cai, Yong, Rudolf Jaffe, and Ronald Jones. 1997. Ethylmercury in the Soils and
Sediments of the Florida Everglades. Environmental Science and Technology 31(1):302—
305.

Doren, Robert, John C. Volin and Jennifer H. Richards. 2009. Invasive exotic plant
indicators for ecosystem restoration: An example from the Everglades restoration
program. Ecological Indicators 9(6) Supplement: S29-S36.

Gaiser, Evelyn E. Paul V. McCormick, Scot E. Hagerthey and Andrew D. Gottlieb.
2011. Landscape Patterns of Periphyton in the Florida Everglades. Critical Reviews in
Environmental Science and Technology 41(S1):92-120.

Ivey, C. and J.H. Richards. 2001. Genotypic diversity and clonal structure of Everglades
sawgrass, Cladium jamaicense (Cyperaceae). International Journal of Plant Science
162: 1327-1335.

Ivey, C. and J.H. Richards. 2001. Genetic diversity of Everglades sawgrass {Cladium
jamaicense, Cyperaceae). International Journal of Plant Science 162: 817-825.

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Kalla, P. I. and D. J. Scheidt. 2017. Everglades ecosystem assessment - Phase IV, 2014:
Data reduction and initial synthesis. United States Environmental Protection Agency,
Science and Ecosystem Support Division. SESD Project 14-0380. Athens, Georgia.

Li, Yanbin, Yuxiang Mao, Guangliang Liu, Georgio Tachiev, David Roelant, Xinbin
Feng and Yong Cai. 2011. Degradation of Methylmercury and Its Effects on Mercury
Distribution and Cycling in the Florida Everglades. Environmental Science and
Technology 44:6661-6666.

Li, Yanbin, Zhiwei Duan, Guangliang Liu, Peter Kalla, Daniel Scheidt and Yong Cai.
2015. Evaluation of the possible sources and controlling factors of toxic
metals/metalloids in the Florida Everglades and their potential risk of exposure.
Environmental Science & Technology. D01:10.1021/acs.est.5b01638.

Liu, G., Y. Cai, P. Kalla, D. Scheidt, J. Richards, L. Scinto, E. Gaiser and C. Appleby.
2008a. Mercury mass budget estimates and cycling seasonality in the Florida Everglades.
Environmental Science and Technology 42: 1954-1960.

Liu, G., Y. Cai, T. Philippi, P. Kalla, D. Scheidt, L. Scinto, J. Richards and J. Trexler.
2008b. Distribution of total and methylmercury in different ecosystem compartments in
the Everglades: Implications for mercury accumulation. Environmental Pollution 153:
257-265.

Liu, G., Yong Cai, Yuxiang Mao, Daniel Scheidt, Peter Kalla, Jennifer Richards, Leonard
Scinto, Georgio Tachiev, David Roelant and Charlie Appleby. 2009. Spatial Variability
in Mercury Cycling and Relevant Biogeochemical Controls in the Florida Everglades.
Environmental Science and Technology 43 (12):4361-4366. DOI: 10.1021/es803665c

Liu, Guangliang, G. Melodie Naja, Peter Kalla, Dan Scheidt, Evelyn Gaiser, and Yong
Cai. 2011. Legacy and fate of mercury and methylmercury in the Florida Everglades.
Environmental Science and Technology, 45(2):496-501. Supporting information Sl-
S41.

Orem, William, Cynthia Gilmour, Donald Axelrad, David Krabbenhoft, Daniel Scheidt,
Peter Kalla, Paul McCormick, Mark Gabriel and George Aiken. 2011. Sulfur in the
South Florida Ecosystem: Distribution, Sources, Biogeochemistry, Impacts, and
Management for Restoration. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and
Technology 41(Sl):249-288.

Osborne, Todd Z., Susan Newman; Daniel J. Scheidt; Peter I. Kalla; Gregory L. Bruland;
Matthew J. Cohen; Leonard J. Scinto; Larry R. Ellis. 2011. Landscape Patterns of
Significant Soil Nutrients and Contaminants in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem: Past,
Present, and Future. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
41(S1):121-148.

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Richards, J.H. and C.T. Ivey. 2004. Morphological plasticity of Sagittaria lancifolia L.
in response to phosphorus. Aquatic Botany 80: 53-67.

Richards, Jennifer and Tom Philippi. 2005. Macrophyte sampling, South Florida R-
EMAP project. 2005 dry season. Final Report. Florida International University
Department of Biological Sciences.

Richards, Jennifer H., Tom Philippi, Pete Kalla and Dan Scheidt. 2008. Everglades
marsh vegetation: species associations and spatial distributions from R-EMAP Phase III.
Florida International University Department of Biological Sciences.

Sargeant, B., J.C. Trexler, E.E. Gaiser. 2010. Biotic and Abiotic Determinants of
Intermediate-Consumer Trophic Diversity in the Florida Everglades. Marine &
Freshwater Research 61:11 -22.

Sargeant, Brooke L., Evelyn E. Gaiser, and Joel C. Trexler. 2011. Indirect and direct
controls of macroinvertebrates and small fish by abiotic factors and trophic interactions in
the Florida Everglades. Journal of Freshwater Biology DOI: 10.1111/j. 1365-
2427.2011.02663.x

Scheidt, Daniel, Jerry Stober, Ronald Jones and Kent Thornton. 2000. South Florida
ecosystem assessment: water management, soil loss, eutrophication and habitat. United
States Environmental Protection Agency Report 904-R-00-003.

Scheidt, D. J. and P. I. Kalla. 2007. Everglades ecosystem assessment: water
management, water quality, eutrophication, mercury contamination, soils and habitat.
Monitoring for adaptive management: a R-EMAP status report. EPA 904-R-07-001.
United States Environmental Protection Agency. Atlanta, Georgia.

Stober, Q. J., R. D. Jones and D. J. Scheidt. 1995. Ultra-trace level mercury in the
Everglades Ecosystem: A Multi-media Pilot Study. Water, Air and Soil Pollution
80:991-1001.

Stober, Jerry, Daniel Scheidt, Ron Jones, Kent Thornton, Robert Ambrose, and Danny
France. 1996. South Florida Ecosystem Assessment. Monitoring for Adaptive
Management: Implications for Ecosystem Restoration. Interim Report. United States
Environmental Protection Agency EPA-904-R-96-008.

Stober, Jerry, Daniel Scheidt, Ron Jones, Kent Thornton, Robert Ambrose, and Danny
France. 1998. South Florida Ecosystem Assessment. Monitoring for Adaptive
Management: Implications for Ecosystem Restoration. Final Technical Report - Phase I.
United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA-904-R-98-002.

Stober, Q. J., K. Thornton, R. Jones, J. Richards, C. Ivey, R. Welch, M. Madden, J.
Trexler, E. Gaiser, D. Scheidt and S. Rathbun. 2001. South Florida Ecosystem
Assessment: Phase I/II- Everglades Stressor Interactions: Hydropatterns, Eutrophication,

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Habitat Alteration, and Mercury Contamination (Summary). EPA 904-R-01-002.
September 2001. USEPA Region 4 Science and Ecosystem Support Division. Athens,
Georgia.

Stober, Q. J., K. Thornton, R. Jones, J. Richards, C. Ivey, R. Welch, M. Madden, J.
Trexler, E. Gaiser, D. Scheidt and S. Rathbun. 2001. South Florida Ecosystem
Assessment: Phase I/II (Technical Report)- Everglades Stressor Interactions:
Hydropatterns, Eutrophication, Habitat Alteration, and Mercury Contamination. EPA
904-R-01-003. September 2001. USEPA Region 4 Science and Ecosystem Support
Division. Athens, Georgia.

Tarpey, Thaddeus and Christopher T. Ivey. 2006. Allometric Extension for Multivariate
Regression. Journal of Data Science 4:479-495.

Trexler, J. C., E. E. Gaiser, J. S. Kominoski, and J. Sanchez. 2015. The role of periphyton
mats in consumer community structure and function in calcareous wetlands: Lessons
from the Everglades. In: J. A. Entry, A. D. Gottlieb, K. Jayachandrahan and A. Ogram,
eds. Microbiology of the Everglades Ecosystem, Science Publishers, CRC Press, pp 155-
179.

USEPA. 2014. Everglades Ecosystem Assessment Phase IV. Miami, Florida.

September 23-29, 2013. SESD Project Identification Number: 13-0513. USEPA Region
4 Science and Ecosystem Support Division. Athens, Georgia.

Yamashita, Youhei, Leonard J. Scinto, Nagamitsu Maie and Rudolf Jaffe. 2010.
Dissolved Organic Matter Characteristics Across a Subtropical Wetland's Landscape:
Application of Optical Properties in the Assessment of Environmental Dynamics.
Ecosystems 13:1006-1019.

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