Loxahatchee River District’s Wildpine Ecological Laboratory staff monitored seagrass every-other-month (bi-monthly) at four sites located within the Loxahatchee River Estuary and at a reference site in the southern Indian River Lagoon. Monitoring was conducted to characterize spatial and temporal variation in seagrass percent cover and canopy height within the Loxahatchee River estuary.
Project Design Methodology
Probabilistic
Project Data Quality Objectives
Yes
Sampling Frequency
Discrete - Sampled Bi-monthly
Themes
Habitat assessment
Monitoring Locations
6
locations are monitored by this project
This project has monitoring locations on multiple catalogs:
Regional ecosystem assessment - A floral or faunal project that has a relatively large geographic footprint
Trend analyses - Project is long-term; may be an "ambient" monitoring project of long duration
Habitat assessment - Project is related to floral/faunal species health, diversity or abundance
Salt water intrusion - Groundwater monitoring project that focuses on water level, and total dissolved solids, sulfates, specific conductance, or chloride measurements
Regulatory - Refers to projects or permits for modifying environmental conditions or features; project monitoring mandated by a government agency
Research - Primary intent of project is educational/research
Resource management - Project monitoring results are used to assess the necessity for, or effectiveness of, management activities
Potable water supply - Project monitors Class I waters, reservoirs, drinking water, or public water supply
Other - This project's purpose is not represented in any of the predefined themes
Health and safety - Project monitors locations or events that affect human health and safety, such as beaches, shellfish, potable water wells