Detecting Trends in Abundance and Distribution of Seagrasses in Lake Worth Lagoon, Palm Beach County, Florida

Gulf and Caribbean Research Volume 34 Issue 1 2023 Detecting Trends in Abundance and Distribution of Seagrasses in Lake Worth Lagoon, Palm Beach County, Florida James R. Kerfoot Jr. Union University, Samantha N. Jones Union University, Michael H. Schiebout Union University, Beth Orlando Palm Beach County Environmental Resources Management, Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr Part of the Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology Commons To access the supplemental data associated with this article, CLICK HERE. Recommended Citation Kerfoot, J. R. Jr., S. N. Jones, M. H. Schiebout and B. Orlando. 2023. Detecting Trends in Abundance and Distribution of Seagrasses in Lake Worth Lagoon, Palm Beach County, Florida. Gulf and Caribbean Research 34 (1): 43-59. Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol34/iss1/7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.3401.07 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gulf and Caribbean Research by an authorized editor of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact . Volume 25 R E S E A R C H March 2013 VOLUME 25 GULF AND CARIBBEAN TABLE OF CONTENTS R SAND BOTTOM MICROALGAL PRODUCTION AND BENTHIC NUTRIENT FLUXES ON THE NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO NEARSHORE SHELF Jeffrey G. Allison, M. E. Wagner, M. McAllister, A. K. J. Ren, and R. A. Snyder ....................................................................................1—8 WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT SPECIES RICHNESS AND DISTRIBUTION ON THE OUTER—SHELF SOUTH TEXAS BANKS? Harriet L. Nash, Sharon J. Furiness, and John W. Tunnell, Jr........................................................................................................... 9—18 ASSESSMENT OF SEAGRASS FLORAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE FROM TWO CARIBBEAN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS Paul A. X. Bologna and Anthony J. Suleski.............................................................................................................................................. 19—27 SPATIAL AND SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF RED DRUM CAUGHT AND RELEASED IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH POST—RELEASE HOOKING MORTALITY Kerry E. Flaherty, Brent L. Winner, Julie L. Vecchio, and Theodore S. Switzer....................................................................................29—41 CHARACTERIZATION OF ICHTHYOPLANKTON IN THE NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO FROM SEAMAP PLANKTON SURVEYS, 1982—1999 Joanne Lyczkowski—Shultz, David S. Hanisko, Kenneth J. Sulak, Małgorzata Konieczna, and Pamela J. Bond................................... 43—98 DEPURATION OF MACONDA (MC—252) OIL FOUND IN HETEROTROPHIC SCLERACTINIAN CORALS (TUBASTREA COCCINEA AND TUBASTREA MICRANTHUS) ON OFFSHORE OIL/GAS PLATFORMS IN THE GULF Steve R. Kolian, Scott Porter, Paul W. Sammarco, and Edwin W. Cake, Jr........................................................................................99—103 EFFECTS OF CLOSURE OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER GULF OUTLET ON SALTWATER INTRUSION AND BOTTOM WATER HYPOXIA IN LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN Michael A. Poirrier .............................................................................................................................................................................105—109 DISTRIBUTION AND LENGTH FREQUENCY OF INVASIVE LIONFISH (PTEROIS SP.) IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO OF MEXICO Alexander Q. Fogg, Eric R. Hoffmayer, William B. Driggers III, Matthew D. Campbell, Gilmore J. Pellegrin, and William Stein ............................................................................................................................................................................................................111—115 NOTES ON THE BIOLOGY OF INVASIVE LIONFISH (PTEROIS SP.) FROM THE NORTHCENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO William Stein III, Nancy J. Brown—Peterson, James S. Franks, and Martin T. O’Connell................................................................117—120 RECORD BODY SIZE FOR THE RED LIONFISH, PTEROIS VOLITANS (SCORPAENIFORMES), IN THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO Alfonso Aguilar—Perera, Leidy Perera—Chan, and Luis Quijano—Puerto............................................................................................121—123 EFFECTS OF BLACK MANGROVE (AVICENNIA GERMINANS) EXPANSION ON SALTMARSH (SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA) BENTHIC COMMUNITIES OF THE SOUTH TEXAS COAST Jessica Lunt, Kimberly McGlaun, and Elizabeth M. Robinson..........................................................................................................125—129 TIME—ACTIVITY BUDGETS OF STOPLIGHT PARROTFISH (SCARIDAE: SPARISOMA VIRIDE) IN BELIZE: CLEANING INVITATION AND DIURNAL PATTERNS Wesley A. Dent and Gary R. Gaston .................................................................................................................................................131—135 FIRST RECORD OF A NURSE SHARK, GINGLYMOSTOMA CIRRATUM, WITHIN THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND Jill M. Hendon, Eric R. Hoffmayer, and William B. Driggers III......................................................................................................137—139 REVIEWERS.........................................................................................................................................................................................................141 INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS................................................................................................................................................................142-143 Published by ISSN: 1528—0470 All rights reserved. No part of this publication covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher. E A R C H ISSN: 2572-1410 Published by MARCH 2013 703 East Beach Drive Ocean Springs, Mississippi 39564 228.872.4200 • FAX: 228.872.4204 www.usm.edu/gcrl S Volume 34 2023 © 2013 The University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. Printed in the United States of America E GULF AND CARIBBEAN RESEARCH Short Communications GULF AND CARIBBEAN Ocean Springs, Mississippi Gulf and Caribbean Research Vol 34, 43—59, 2023 DOI: 10.18785/gcr.3401.07 Manuscript received October 10, 2022; accepted April 18, 2023 DETECTING TRENDS IN ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF SEAGRASSES IN LAKE WORTH LAGOON, PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA James R. Kerfoot, Jr.1*, Samantha N. Jones1, Michael H. Schiebout1, and Beth Orlando2 Union University, Department of Biology, 1050 Union University Drive, Jackson, TN 38305; 2 Palm Beach County Environmental Resources Management, 2300 North Jog Road – 4th Floor, West Palm Beach, FL 33411—2743; *Corresponding author, email: 1 Abstract: Over the past 15 years, seagrass community stability has varied in estuaries throughout Florida. This study sought to model potential patterns of physiochemical parameters and community composition that may correlate with the fluctuation of seagras (...truncated)