Table 1.  Relevant research conducted in the Florida Keys

 

Author

 

Subject

 

(Powell et al. 1989)

 

nutrient enrichment of seagrass communities

 

(Zieman et al. 1989)

 

distribution, abundance, & productivity of seagrasses

 

(Lapointe et al. 1990)

 

sewage disposal, groundwater contamination, nearshore waters, anthropogenic eutrophication.

 

(Tomasko and Lapointe 1991)

 

water column nutrient availability, seagrass productivity

 

(Fourqurean et al. 1992b)

 

porewater nutrients and seagrass, phosphorous limitation

 

(Fourqurean et al. 1992a)

 

phosphorous limitation of primary production

 

(Lapointe and Clark 1992)

 

coastal eutrophication, onshore-to-offshore nutrient gradient, septic and groundwater discharge

 

(Fourqurean et al. 1993)

 

phosphorous limitation, water column nutrients, phytoplankton

 

(Lapointe et al. 1994)

 

coastal eutrophication and seagrass communities, onshore-to-offshore nutrient gradient

 

(Shinn et al. 1994)

 

injection well effluent, geology, groundwater nutrient transport

 

(Fourqurean et al. 1995)

 

nutrient supply effects on seagrass competition

 

(Lapointe and Matzie 1996)

 

stormwater nutrient discharge, nearshore eutrophication, runoff, wastewater, onshore-to-offshore nutrient gradient

 

(Swart et al. 1996)

 

coral, stable carbon and oxygen isotopes, climatic changes

 

(Szmant and Forrester 1996)

 

water column nutrients, sediment nutrients

 

(Boyer et al. 1997)

 

multivariate analyses of water quality parameters

 

(Fong et al. 1997)

 

seagrass ecosystem model

 

(Frankovich and Fourqurean 1997)

 

seagrass epiphyte loads along nutrient availability gradient

 

(Jones and Boyer 1997)

 

water quality monitoring

 

(Paul et al. 1997)

 

injection well effluent, groundwater nutrient transport

 

(Jaap et al. 1998)

 

status of coral reefs and hardbottom in the FKNMS

 

(Fourqurean et al. 1999)

 

status and trends in seagrass communities in the FKNMS

 

(Corbett et al. 1999)

 

groundwater discharge in Florida Bay