RECOVER MAP 3.1.3.6 Landscape Pattern - Ridge, Slough, and Tree Island Elevations ENP, WCA3 - PO 4500021923

Research objectives were to obtain data that can be analyzed to better understand the dynamics of tree island vegetation in response to a multitude of factors, including changes in hydrology. The dataset contains the â raw dataâ measurements taken at each island, within respective sample plots. The data can then be used to compare changes over time (2005-2008), project how species of tree, shrub, and herb may react to disturbances, and determine at what spatial and temporal scale hardwood hammocks are affected by hydrological changes. objectives are: (1) monitor and characterize the current condition of tropical hardwood-dominated tree islands with significant areas of the Shark Slough; and (2) characterize relationships among the hydrologic regimes of adjacent long and short hydroperiod marshes, with respect to population dynamics of resident trees and associated plant species within selected islands.