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Tools that accurately and reliably forecast potential ecological responses to both climate variability and natural resource management can improve the decision process, especially for landscapes where decision points occur iteratively across time. In the Everglades, natural resource practitioners use models and decision support tools to assist their evaluations of restoration progress...

The Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program was developed by Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and is implemented as a component of the System Wide Assessment and Monitoring Program (SWAMP). The program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes in the aerial and subaqueous extent of islands...

The Louisiana State Legislature established the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. Restoration plans developed under CWPPRA require evaluating the effectiveness of each project in achieving long-term solutions to coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs...

Ecological models facilitate the evaluation of alternative approaches to restore the Greater Everglades ecosystem. However, the provision of useful and accessible models is a challenge because there is often a disconnect between model developers and model users such as natural resource managers and decision makers. Joint Ecosystem Modeling (JEM) meets this challenge by providing...

These data were collected as part of a larger Monitoring and Adaptive Management project, approved by the Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group, investigating juvenile Gulf sturgeon (Acipenser desotoi) winter habitat use across the species' range to address data gaps in baseline status and conditions, restoration needs, and framework for monitoring restoration success. From 2020 to...

We introduce a multi-species analytical approach to predict the potential effectiveness of corridors using the 'spatial absorbing Markov chain' (SAMC) framework. We applied this framework to the Florida Wildlife Corridor and contrasted four mammal species with varying dispersal capacity: fox squirrel (Sciurus niger), Florida black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus), white-tailed deer...

Observations from 20 years of tracking Burmese pythons in southern Florida using VHF radiotelemetry. From 2005 to 2024, we implanted 305 transmitters in 142 adult Burmese pythons. There were no observations of transmitter-related mortality. Overall, 98.7% of transmitters were retained, with a 1.3% expulsion rate (n = 4 transmitters). Expelled tags were only observed in subcutaneously...

The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to...

The Caminada Headland Back Barrier Marsh Creation Project was developed under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) to create and/or nourish approximately 900 acres of back barrier marsh behind nearly 8 miles of beach with dredged material from the Gulf of America. This restoration effort created a platform for the beach and dune to migrate, reducing the

The Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) program was developed by Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and is implemented as a component of the System Wide Assessment and Monitoring Program (SWAMP). The program uses both historical data and contemporary data collections to assess and monitor changes in the aerial and subaqueous extent of islands...

Fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) exposures to water containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS) related to aqueous film-forming foam used in extinguishing fires were performed on-site at the USGS Toxic Substance Hydrology Groundwater Research Site on Cape Cod, MA. In 2019, to investigate potential effects on reproductive parameters, exposures were performed for either 7 or...

Stable isotope dataset from fauna, particulate organic matter (POM) and sediments used to construct isotopic niches to compare trophic relationships in mesophotic coral habitats across the Gulf of America.