Gaiser Research Group
Water sustains our planet, yet the future of our freshwater resources is tenuous, given the pressures of wasteful water abuse and climate change. Our research is aimed at creating a more resilient future for our freshwater lakes and wetlands.
Goals of our research include identifying ways in which lakes and wetlands transform over long time periods. We have a particular focus on algae, especially diatoms, which produce 30% of the world’s oxygen, serve as indicators of ecosystem change, and are at the base of aquatic food webs.
We also hope to inspire the public by engaging in outreach activities to build an informed citizenry.
Papers published in 2017-2018
Mazzei V., and Gaiser E.E. 2018. Diatoms as tools for inferring ecotone boundaries in a coastal freshwater wetland threatened by saltwater intrusion. Ecological Indicators 88: 190. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.01.003.
Sola, A., Marazzi, L., Flores, M.M., Kominoski J.S., and Gaiser E.E. 2018. Short-term effects of drying-rewetting and long-term effects of nutrient loading on periphyton N:P stoichiometry. Water 10: 105. DOI: 10.3390/w10020105.
Danielson, T., Rivera-Monroy V.H., Castañeda-Moya E., Briceno H.O., Travieso R., Marx B.D., Gaiser E.E., and Farfan L. 2017. Assessment of Everglades mangrove forest resilience: Implications for above-ground net primary productivity and carbon dynamics. Forest Ecology and Management 404: 115-125.
Marazzi, L., Gaiser, E.E., Jones, V.J., Tobias, F.A., and Mackay, A.W. 2017. Algal richness and life‐history strategies are influenced by hydrology and phosphorus in two major subtropical wetlands. Freshwater Biology 62: 274-290.
Marazzi, L., Gaiser, E.E., and Tobias, F.A.C., 2017. Phosphorus scarcity and desiccation stress increase the occurrence of dominant taxa in wetland benthic primary producer communities. Aquatic Ecology 51: 571-589.
Mazzei, V. and Gaiser, E.E. 2017. Scale and spatial consistency of specialization in an endemic and abundant freshwater diatom from the Caribbean Basin. Freshwater Science 36: 542-554.
Naja, M., Childers, D.L., Gaiser E.E. 2017. Water quality implications of hydrologic restoration alternatives in the Florida Everglades, United States. Restoration Ecology 25(S1): S48-S58.
Vanderbilt, K., and Gaiser E.E. 2017. The International Long Term Ecological Research Network: a platform for collaboration. Ecosphere 8: e01697. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1697
Diatom of the Month update
In September 2017, our Diatom of the Month migrated from the Wading Through Research blog onto the Young Diatomists – International Society of Diatom Research blog. Since November 2015, Luca Marazzi and other 13 diatomists wrote 26 blog posts with…
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