FWRI Coastal Wetlands Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Conference Proceedings
Radabaugh KR, Adams CS, Hearne SN, Roussopoulos S, Russo C, Ritz E, Raulerson GE, Herndon SM, Lykens A, Plage E, Moyer RP (2025) Influence of substrate, elevation, and environment on eastern oysters Crassostrea virginica on artificial intertidal reefs in Tampa Bay, Florida. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 761:67–83 https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14861
Hong I, Joyse KM, Walker JS, Nogueira AL, Bryant W, Radabaugh KR, Barber DC (2025) Assessing the preservation potential of successive hurricane overwash deposits in Florida, USA mangroves. Scientific Reports, 15(1):1508. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84083-y
Friess DA, Suárez EL, Armitage AR, Doughty C, Feher LC, Feller IC, Fierro A, Radabaugh KR, Simpson LT, Vervaeke WC, Zamora-Tovar C. (2024) IUCN Red List of Ecosystems, Mangroves of the Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic. https://doi.org/10.32942/x27w48
Steinmuller HE, Breithaupt JL, Rovai AS, Engelbert KM, Smoak JM, Chambers LG, Radabaugh KR, Moyer RP, Chappel A, Vaughn DR, Bianchi TS (2024) Using loss-on-ignition to estimate total nitrogen content of mangrove soils. Geoderma, 448:116956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116956
Stevens PW, Blewett DA, Anderson CR, Saari CR, Shea CP, Craig CA, Radabaugh KR (2024) Characterizing Juvenile Common Snook and Tarpon Habitat to Guide Conservation and Restoration of Coastal Wetlands. Wetlands, 44(8):108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-024-01844-1
Bardou R, Osland MJ, Scyphers S, Shepard C, Aerni KE, Alemu I JB, Crimian R, Day RH, Enwright NM, Feher LC, Gibbs SL (2023) Rapidly changing range limits in a warming world: critical data limitations and knowledge gaps for advancing understanding of mangrove range dynamics in the southeastern USA. Estuaries and Coasts. 2023 Jul;46(5):1123-40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01209-7
Breithaupt JL, Steinmuller HE, Rovai AS, Engelbert KM, Smoak JM, Chambers LG, Radabaugh KR, Moyer RP, Chappel A, Vaughn DR, Bianchi TS (2023) An improved framework for estimating organic carbon content of mangrove soils using loss-on-ignition and coastal environmental setting. Wetlands 43(6):57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01698-z
Joyse KM, Khan NS, Moyer RP, Radabaugh KR, Hong I, Chappel AR, Walker JS, Sanders CJ, Engelhart SE, Kopp RE, Horton BP (2023) The characteristics and preservation potential of Hurricane Irma's overwash deposit in southern Florida, USA. Marine Geology, 461:107077. Access Publication
Radabaugh KR, Moyer RP, Chappel AR, Breithaupt JL, Lagomasino D, Dontis EE, Russo CE, Rosenheim BE, Chambers LG, Peneva-Reed EI, Smoak JM (2023) A spatial model comparing above-and belowground blue carbon stocks in southwest Florida mangroves and salt marshes. Estuaries and Coasts 46(6):1536-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01217-7
Breithaupt JL, Smoak JM, Bianchi TS, Vaughn D, Sanders CJ, Radabaugh KR, Osland MJ, Feher LC, Lynch JC, Cahoon DR, Anderson GH, Whelan KRT, Rosenheim BE, Moyer RP, Chambers, LG (2021) Reply to comment by R. Parkinson on “Increasing rates of carbon burial in southwest Florida coastal wetlands” by J. Breithaupt et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 126(4): e2021JG006245. Access Publication
Harttung SA, Radabaugh KR, Moyer RP, Smoak JM, Chambers LG (2021) Coastal riverine wetland biogeochemistry follows soil organic matter distribution along a marsh-to-mangrove gradient (Florida, USA). Science of The Total Environment, 797:149056. Access Publication
Kyzar T, Safak I, Cebrian J, Clark MW, Dix N, Dietz K, Gittman RK, Jaeger J, Radabaugh KR, Roddenberry A, Smith CS, Sparks EL, Stone B, Sundin G, Taubler M, Angelini C (2021) Challenges and opportunities for sustaining coastal wetlands and oyster reefs in the southeastern United States. Journal of Environmental Management, 296:113178. Access Publication
Radabaugh KR, Dontis EE, Chappel AR, Russo CE, Moyer RP (2021) Early indicators of stress in mangrove forests with altered hydrology in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science, 254:107324. Access Publication
Breithaupt JL, Smoak JM, Bianchi, TS, Vaughn, DR, Sanders, CJ, Radabaugh, KR, Osland, MJ, Feher, LC, Lynch, JC, Cahoon DC, Anderson GH, Whelan KRT, Rosenheim BR, Moyer RP, Chambers LG (2020) Increasing Rates of Carbon Burial in Southwest Florida Coastal Wetlands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 125(2): e2019JG005349. Access Publication
Dontis EE, Radabaugh KR, Chappel AR, Russo, CE, Moyer, RP (2020) Carbon Storage Increases with Site Age as Created Salt Marshes Transition to Mangrove Forests in Tampa Bay, Florida (USA). Estuaries and Coasts, 43:1470–1488. Access Publication
Radabaugh KR, Moyer RP, Chappel AR, Dontis ED, Russo CE, Joyse KM, Bownik MW, Goeckner AH, Khan NS (2020) Mangrove damage, delayed mortality, and early recovery following Hurricane Irma at two landfall sites in Southwest Florida, USA. Estuaries & Coasts, 43(5): 1104–1118. Access Publication
Sheehan L, Sherwood ET, Moyer RP, Radabaugh KR, Simpson S (2019) Blue Carbon: An additional driver for restoring and preserving ecological services of coastal wetlands in Tampa Bay (FL). Wetlands, 39(6):1317–1328. Access Publication
Kemp AC, Vane CH, Khan NS, Ellison JC, Engelhart SE, Horton BP, Nikitina D, Smith SR, Rodrigues LJ, Moyer RP (2019) Testing the Utility of Geochemical Proxies to Reconstruct Holocene Coastal Environments and Relative Sea Level: A Case Study from Hungry Bay, Bermuda. Open Quaternary, 5:1–18. Access Publication
Breithaupt JL, Smoak JM, Byrne RH, Waters MN, Moyer RP, Sanders CJ (2018) Avoiding timescale bias in assessments of coastal wetland vertical change. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(S1): S477–S495. Access Publication
McCarthy MJ, Radabaugh KR, Moyer RP, Muller-Karger FE (2018) Enabling efficient, large-scale, high-spatial resolution wetland mapping using satellites. Remote Sensing of Environment, 208:189–201. Access Publication
Holmquist JR, Windham-Myers L, Bliss N, Crooks S, Morris JT, Megonigal JP, Troxler T, Weller D, Callaway J, Drexler J, Ferner MC, Gonneea ME, Kroeger KD, Schile-Beers L, Woo I, Buffington K, Breithaupt J, Boyd BM, Brown LN, Dix N, Hice L, Horton BP, MacDonald GM, Moyer RP, Reay W, Shaw T, Smith E, Smoak JM, Sommerfield C, Thorne K, Velinsky D, Watson E, Wilson-Grimes K, Woodrey M (2018) Accuracy and Precision of Tidal Wetland Soil Carbon Mapping in the Conterminous United States. Scientific Reports, 8:9478. Access Publication
Radabaugh KR, Moyer RP, Chappel AR, Powell CE, Bociu I, Clark BC, Smoak JM (2018) Coastal blue carbon assessment of mangroves, salt marshes, and salt barrens in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. Estuaries and Coasts, 41(5): 1496–1510. Access Publication
Breithaupt JL, Smoak JM, Rivera-Monroy VH, Castañeda-Moya E, Moyer RP, Simard M, Sanders CJ (2017) Partitioning the relative contributions of organic matter and mineral sediment to accretion rates in carbonate platform mangrove soils. Marine Geology, 390: 170–180. Access Publication
Gerlach MJ, Engelhart SE, Kemp AC, Moyer RP, Smoak JM, Bernhardt CE, Cahill N (2017) Reconstructing Common Era relative sea-level change on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Marine Geology, 390: 254–269. Access Publication
Radabaugh KR, Powell CE, Bociu I, Clark BC, Moyer RP (2017) Plant size metrics and organic carbon content of Florida salt marsh vegetation. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 25: 4. Access Publication
Chambers LG, Chin Y-P, Filippelli GM, Gardner C, Herndon EM, Long DT, Lyons WB, Macpherson GL, McElmurry SP, McLean CE, Moore J, Moyer RP, Nezat CA, Soderberg K, Teutsch N, Widom E (2016) Developing the scientific framework for urban geochemistry. Applied Geochemistry, 67: 1–20. Access Publication
Moyer RP, Powell CE, Gordon DJ, Long JS, Bliss CM (2015) Abundance, distribution, and fluxes of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in four small sub-tropical rivers of the Tampa Bay Estuary (Florida, USA). Applied Geochemistry, 63: 550–562. Access Publication
Andrews AH, Barnett BK, Allman RJ, Moyer RP, Trowbridge, HD (2013) Great longevity of speckled hind (Epinephelus drummondhayi), a deep-water grouper, with novel use of postbomb radiocarbon dating in the Gulf of Mexico. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 70(8): 1131–1140. Access Publication
Moyer RP, Viehman TS, Piniak GA, Gledhill DK (2012) Linking seasonal changes in benthic community structure to seawater chemistry. Proc. 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, Cairns, Australia. Access Publication
Other Scholarly Products (Books, Technical Reports, Etc.)
Radabaugh KR, Geiger SP, Moyer RP, Eds. (2019) Oyster Integrated Mapping and Monitoring Program Report for the State of Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Technical Report No. 22. 175 ISSN 1930-1448.
Sherwood ET, Greening H, Raulerson G, Sheehan L, Crooks S, Moyer RP, Radabaugh KR, Emmett-Mattox S, Tomasko D, Robison D, Yates K (2018) Chapter 26: Tampa Bay Estuary: Identifying Blue Carbon Incentives for Future Critical Coastal Habitat Restoration and Management Efforts. In: Windham-Myers L, Troxler T, Crooks S (Eds.) A Blue Carbon Primer. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. ISBN 9781498769099. Access Publication
Holmquist JR, Windham-Myers L, Bliss N, Crooks S, Morris JT, Megonigal JP, Troxler T, Weller D, Callaway J, Drexler J, Ferner MC, Gonneea ME, Kroeger KD, Schile-Beers L, Woo I, Buffington K, Boyd BM, Breithaupt J, Brown LN, Dix N, Hice L, Horton BP, MacDonald GM, Moyer RP, Reay W, Shaw T, Smith E, Smoak JM, Sommerfield C, Thorne K, Velinsky D, Watson E, Wilson Grimes K, Woodrey M (2018) Accuracy and Precision of Tidal Wetland Soil Carbon Mapping in the Conterminous United States: Public Soil Carbon Data Release Version 1. Smithsonian Institution. Access Publication.
Radabaugh KR, Powell CE, Moyer RP, Eds. (2017) Coastal Habitat Integrated Mapping and Monitoring Program Report for the State of Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Technical Report No. 21: 160 ISSN 1930-1448.
Moyer RP, Radabaugh KR (2017) Critical Coastal Habitat Final Report. Prepared by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for the Tampa Bay Estuary Program. TBEP Technical Report #05‐17. Access Publication
Radabaugh KR, Moyer RP, Raulerson G, Sherwood E (2017) Critical Coastal Habitat Assessment training manual. Prepared by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for the Tampa Bay Estuary Program. Technical report #06-17. Access Publication
Yates KK, Moyer RP, Moore C, Tomasko D, Smiley N, Torres-Garcia L, Powell CE, Chappel AR, Bociu I (2016) Ocean acidification buffering effects of seagrass in Tampa Bay. Proc. Sixth Tampa Bay Area Scientific Information Symposium, BASIS. 6: 273–284. Access Publication
Goldsmith ST, Moyer RP, Harmon RJ (2015) Hydrochemistry and Biogeochemistry of Tropical Small Mountain Rivers. Applied Geochemistry. Editorial introducing the special issue on Hydrochemistry and Biogeochemistry of Tropical Small Mountain Rivers. 100(63): 453–455. Access Publication
Handley L, Spear K, Baumstark R, Moyer R, Thatcher C (2013) L: Statewide Summary for Florida. In: Handley L, Spear K, Thatcher C, Wilson S (Eds.), Emergent Wetlands Status and Trends in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: 1950–2010. USGS Gulf of Mexico. US Geological Survey. L:11 pp. Access Publication
Handley L, Spear K, Baumstark R, Moyer R, Thatcher C (2013) N: Tampa Bay. In: Handley L, Spear K, Thatcher C, Wilson S (Eds.), Emergent Wetlands Status and Trends in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: 1950–2010. USGS Gulf of Mexico. US Geological Survey. 18 pp. Access Publication
Handley L, Spear K, Albrecht B, Bruening K, McDowell A, Baumstark R, Moyer R, Thatcher C (2013) O: Florida Panhandle. In: Handley L, Spear K, Thatcher C, Wilson S (Eds.), Emergent Wetlands Status and Trends in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: 1950–2010. USGS Gulf of Mexico. US Geological Survey. 22 pp. Access Publication