Baseline data for a hydrological restoration of a mangrove forest near Goodland, Florida (2015 - 2017)

Mangrove restoration has a strong potential to enhance the services provided by coastal wetlands on a number of Department of the Interior (DOI) managed lands throughout the southeastern United States of America. Services include storm protection, water quality improvement, and biological carbon sequestration. Forest structural attributes including basal area, tree height, and stem density by species are used to calculate above ground biomass and above ground productivity. Percent cover is used to asses the forest canopy health. The data collected for the soils are: bulk density, percent total Nitrogen, percent total Carbon, and selected samples percent total Phosporus. The forest structure plots were placed in three zones; healthy, transition, and dead, along with a reference zone to compare how these plots change over time with the hydrologic restoration. These are pre-restoration measurements.

红树林恢复具备极大潜力，可提升美国东南部多处由美国内政部（Department of the Interior，DOI）管理的沿海湿地所提供的生态系统服务能力。此类服务涵盖风暴防护、水质改善与生物固碳。研究通过森林结构属性（包括断面积、树高及按物种划分的茎秆密度）计算地上生物量与地上生产力，并利用盖度百分比评估林冠健康状况。土壤相关采集数据包括：容重、全氮百分比、全碳百分比，以及部分样本的全磷百分比。森林结构样地被布设于健康、过渡与枯亡三个样区，并设置对照样区，用于对比这些样地在水文恢复过程中随时间的变化情况。本批数据为恢复前的实测数据。