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Adams, Clayton A.  (1973).  Role of the mangrove ecosystems: quantitative dietary analyses for selected dominant fishes in the Ten Thousand Islands, Florida.  56 pp.  Gainesville, FL: Resource Management Systems Program, University of Florida.

Beever, James W.  (1988).  Effects of fringe mangrove trimming for view in the Southwest Florida Aquatic Preserves.  Southwest Florida Aquatic Preserves.

Brown, Jeffrey E.  (1987).  Distribution and diversity of fishes in a Tampa Bay mangrove swamp and the effects of rotary ditching.  50 pp.  Unpublished master's thesis.  University of South Florida, Tampa.

Cintrón, Gilberto and Yara Schaeffer-Novelli.  (1982).  Mangrove forests: ecology and response to natural and man induced stressors.  44 pp.  Corvallis, OR: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Laboratory.

Evink, G. L.  (1973).  Role of mangrove ecosystems: biomass and diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates of Fahka Union and Fahkahatchee Bays, Florida.  75 pp.  Gainesville, FL: Resource Management Systems Prog.  University of Florida.
(Report of a study conducted to survey the macroinvertebrate population of the two bays.  Field and lab methodology, discussion of the data, and a brief bibliography are included.  Sample summary and tables showing samples by collection station with respective environmental data are appended.)

Hogarth, Peter J.  (1999).  Biology of mangroves.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Jaccarini, V. and Els Martens (Eds).  (1992).  Ecology of mangrove and related ecosystems: Proceedings of the international symposium held at Mombasa, Kenya, 24-30 September, 1990.  226 pp.  Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
(The thirty papers published in this volume were selected from seventy presented at the symposium.  Topics covered include: the mangrove forest and its users at the interface between the terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments; fully submerged seagrasses; corals; chemical and physical processes which constitute the mechanisms of linkages; and human uses and abuses of the ecosystems.)

Lacerda, Luiz Drude de (Ed.).  (2002).  Mangrove ecosystems: function and management.  292 pp.  Berlin: Springer.

Lewis Environmental Services.  (1995).  Exotic/invasive species control manual for mangrove forest areas.  Tampa, FL: Lewis Environmental Services, Inc.

(Exotic vegetation, especially Brazilian pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius) poses an economic and environmental threat to Florida.  Several types of control are being developed or are in use.  To investigate the most effective herbicide method of controlling peppers, three sources of information were consulted: a bibliographic database; people with experience controlling peppers through herbicide use; and sites that have been treated.)

Lugo, Ariel E., M. Sell, and S. C. Snedaker.  (1973).  Role of mangrove ecosystems: mangrove ecosystem analysis.  60 pp.  Gainesville, FL: Resource Management Systems Program.  University of Florida.
(Describes a simulation model used to determine how a variety of factors impact the mangrove ecosystem, including sunlight, nutrients, biomass, and detritus.  Results suggest that maximum live-biomass accumulation is hurricane limited; in situ detrital accumulation and export are functions of tidal amplitude, gross photosynthesis is sensitive to terrestrial nutrient inputs and net production depends on the quantity of available nutrients; and species zonation appears to be a function of nutrient availability as well as salinity gradients.)

Lugo, A. E. and S. C. Snedaker.  (1973).  Role of mangrove ecosystems: properties of a mangrove forest in South Florida.  87 pp.  Gainesville, FL: Resource Management Systems Program.  University of Florida.
(This paper summarizes a study of the ecology of a mangrove forest located at Rookery Bay, Naples, Florida.  The period of study was August 1971 to February 1973.  The objective of the study was to quantify the water, carbon, and nutrient storages and flows in this mangrove area.  It presents data on gas exchange; describes the composition and growth of the vegetation, the water flows and their quality; and presents a water budget for the Rookery Bay forest.  In addition, it discusses the recycling mechanisms in these forests, and their adaptations for gas exchange.)

Lugo, Ariel E., et al.  (1973).  Role of mangrove ecosystems: diurnal rates of photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration in mangrove forests of South Florida.  45 pp.  Gainesville, FL: Resource Management Systems Program.  University of Florida.

(Measurements of carbon dioxide exchange and transpiration were made on four south Florida mangrove-forest tree species at Rookery Bay, Florida.  The species were studied by compartment (trunks, prop roots, pneumatophores, seedlings, and shade and sun leaves) during two study periods: August 1971 and January- February 1972.  Data obtained from the gas exchange studies suggest a metabolic basis for the zonation of the four mangrove species.)

Lugo, Ariel E. and Samuel C. Snedaker.  (1973).  Role of mangrove ecosystems: properties of a mangrove forest in South Florida.  87 pp.  Gainesville, FL: Resource Management Systems Program.  University of Florida.

(The paper summarizes a study of the ecology of a mangrove forest located at Rookery Bay, Naples, Florida.  The period of study was August 1971 to February 1973.  The objective of the study was to quantify the water, carbon, and nutrient storages and flows in this mangrove area.  This report presents data on gas exchange; describes the composition and growth of the vegetation, the water flows and their quality; and presents a water budget for the Rookery Bay forest.  In addition, it discusses the recycling mechanisms in these forests, and their adaptations for gas exchange.)

Mathis, Jane Macaulay.  (1973).  Red mangrove decomposition: a pathway for heavy metal enrichment in Everglades estuaries.  62 pp.  Unpublished master's thesis.  Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Odum, William E., et al.  (1982).  Ecology of the mangroves of South Florida: a community profile.  144 pp.  Washington, DC: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

(The community structure and ecosystem processes of the mangrove forests of south Florida are described.  Information covered includes mangrove distribution, primary production, diseases, reproduction, biomass partitioning, and adaptations to stress.  Mangrove ecosystems are considered in terms of zonation, succession, litter fall and decomposition, carbon export, and energy flow.  Most of the components of mangrove communities are cataloged and discussed.  The value of mangrove ecosystems to humans is described and suggestions for managing this habitat are presented.)

Odum, William E.  (1971).  Pathways of energy flow in a South Florida estuary.  Miami, FL: University of Miami Sea Grant Program.

Pool, Douglas J.  (1973).  Role of mangrove ecosystems: mangrove leaf area indices 10 leaves.  Gainesville, FL: Resource Management Systems Program.  University of Florida.
http://library.fgcu.edu/chnep/289a.pdf    
(Pool evaluates leaf area indices (LAI) and suggest using the resulting LAI values for relating metabolic rates to particular sites.)

Pool, Douglas J. and A. E. Lugo.  (1973).  Role of mangrove ecosystems: litter production in mangroves.  35 pp.  Gainesville, FL: Resource Management Systems Program.  University of Florida.

(The objectives of this study were to: 1) record total quantity of leaf, branch, twig, and wood fall on an annual basis to determine annual production of leaves and turnover time, and to determine cyclic patterns of leaf fall of various tree species found in mangrove forests; 2) determine chemical composition of litter material to estimate the quantity of nutrients recycled in-situ, sequestered in a reduced state or exported to an adjoining ecosystem; 3) monitor the quantity and quality of organic matter, primarily litter fall, that is exported from mangrove forests to adjoining estuaries; and 4) use detrital fall as an index of the phenology of a south Florida mangrove forest.)

Proffitt, C Edward.  (Ed.).  (1997).  Managing oil spills in mangrove ecosystems: effects, remediation, restoration, and modeling: a review produced from a workshop convened August 1995 at McNeese State University.  76 p.  New Orleans: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.

(This document was produced by participants of a workshop held August 1995 at McNeese State University and sponsored by the U.S. Minerals Management Service.  It is a follow-up document to the proceedings of a symposium held in New Orleans on July 14-15, 1994, entitled Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Oil Spills in Coastal Ecosystems: Assessing Effects, Natural Recovery, and Progress in Remediation Research.  Included at the end of the report are outline summaries of discussion sessions held near the end of the symposium.)

Robas, Ann K.  (1970).  South Florida's mangrove-bordered estuaries, their role in sport and commercial fish production.  29 pp.  Miami, FL: University of Miami Sea Grant Program.

Robertson, A. I. and D.M. Alongi.  (Eds.).  (1992).  Tropical mangrove ecosystems.  329 pp.  Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.
(The book includes 10 peer-reviewed papers on tropical mangrove ecosystems.  It is intended as a source book for managers of mangrove wetlands.)

Savage, Thomas.  (1972).  Florida mangroves as shoreline stabilizers.  46 pp.  St. Petersburg: Florida Dept. of Natural Resources, Marine Research Laboratory.
(A preliminary assessment of the use of native mangroves for shoreline stabilization and protection is reported.  Field and laboratory tests were performed to select the species and planting procedure best suited for this purpose.  Based upon its broad latitudinal range, tolerance of adverse soil conditions, extensive early root system, and ease of transplanting, Avicennia germinans, the black mangrove, holds greatest promise for use in a state-wide program.  Furthermore, it is at least as important as Rhizophora mangle, the red mangrove, in natural shoreline protection.).

Seaman, William, C. A. Adams and S. C. Snedaker.  (1973).  Role of mangrove ecosystems: biomass determinations in shallow estuaries: technique evaluation and preliminary data.  23 pp.  Gainesville, FL: Resource Management Systems Program.  University of Florida.

(A new type of portable drop net was developed and used to quantitatively harvest fishes from sample areas in shallow estuaries.  The technique is shown to be suitable for sedentary benthic and vegetation-inhabiting fishes, including eels, gobies, gerreids, syngathids, and juvenile pinfish, sciaenids, and flat fishes.  The technique and preliminary results are evaluated and compared with reports in the literature describing techniques to estimate fish biomass.)
Snedaker, Samuel C. and Douglas J. Pool.  (1973).  Mangrove forest types and biomass.  13 pp.  Gainesville, FL: Resource Management Systems Program.  University of Florida.

Thayer, G. W., D. R. Colby and W. F. Hettler, Jr.  (1987).  Utilization of the red mangrove prop root habitat by fishes in South Florida.  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 35(1-2): 25-38.
(Samples collected from the mangrove prop root environment were compared with samples collected using a 2-boat otter trawl in the immediately (8 to 10 m) adjacent, fringing seagrass habitat.  The density and biomass of fish collected were greater in the prop root habitat than in the adjacent fringing seagrass areas.)

Tomlinson, P. B.  (1994).  Botany of mangroves.  419 pp.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Robas, Ann K.  (1970).  South Florida's mangrove-bordered estuaries, their role in sport and commercial fish production.  Miami, FL: University of Miami Sea Grant Program.
(Provides a detailed overview of the estuarine habitat and a rationale for the preservation of estuaries.  The beneficial relationship between estuaries and the commercial fishing industry is highlighted with information about the estuarine food web, lings between mangrove areas and fishes, information about the economic value of estuarine fish and shellfish landings, and more.  Includes photographs and a bibliography.)