RECOVER MAP 3.2.3.3 - South Florida Fisheries Habitat Assessment Program (FHAP-SF)

The goal of this project is to provide information for the spatial assessment and resolution of inter-annual variability in seagrass communities and to establish a baseline to monitorresponses of seagrass communities to water-management alterations associated with the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP activities). FHAP-SF is documenting the status and trends of seagrass distribution, abundance, reproductive and physiological status (ecoindicators), as well as providing process-oriented data such as photosynthetic quantum yields and epiphyte loads. Resource managers will be able to use the data to address ecosystem-response issues on a real-time basis and to weigh alternative restoration options. The purpose of this project is to develop a basic understanding of the relationships among salinity, water quality and seagreass species distribution and abundance in South Florida, to provide data to separate anthropogenically induced changes from natural ecosystem variation and to verify model predictions on species and ecosystem-level responses to system perturbations.本项目的目标是为海草群落年际变化的空间评估与解析提供数据支撑，并建立基准以监测海草群落对与《大沼泽地综合恢复计划》（CERP活动）相关的水资源管理调整的响应。FHAP-SF正记录海草的分布、丰度、繁殖与生理状态（生态指示物ecoindicators）的现状与变化趋势，同时提供光合量子产率（photosynthetic quantum yields）、附生生物负荷（epiphyte loads）等过程导向型数据。资源管理者可依托该数据集实时解决生态系统响应相关问题，并权衡各类备选恢复方案的优劣。本项目的目的是深化对南佛罗里达州盐度、水质与海草物种分布及丰度之间关系的基础认知，提供数据以区分人为诱导的生态变化与自然生态系统变异，并验证关于物种及生态系统层级对系统扰动响应的模型预测。