@article {11,
	title = {Palynological reconstruction of environmental changes in coastal wetlands of the Florida Everglades since the mid-Holocene},
	journal = {Quaternary Research},
	volume = {83},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {449-458},
	abstract = {Palynological, loss-on-ignition, and X-ray fluorescence data from a 5.25 m sediment core from a mangrove forest at the mouth of the Shark River Estuary in the southwestern Everglades National Park, Florida were used to reconstruct changes occurring in coastal wetlands since the mid-Holocene. This multi-proxy record contains the longest paleoecological history to date in the southwestern Everglades. The Shark River Estuary basin was formed ~ 5700 cal yr BP in response to increasing precipitation. Initial wetlands were frequently-burned short-hydroperiod prairies, which transitioned into long-hydroperiod prairies with sloughs in which peat deposits began to accumulate continuously about 5250 cal yr BP. Our data suggest that mangrove communities started to appear after ~ 3800 cal yr BP; declines in the abundance of charcoal suggested gradual replacement of fire-dominated wetlands by mangrove forest over the following 2650 yr. By ~ 1150 cal yr BP, a dense Rhizophora mangle dominated mangrove forest had formed at the mouth of the Shark River. The mangrove-dominated coastal ecosystem here was established at least 2000 yr later than has been previously estimated.},
	issn = {0033-5894},
	doi = {10.1016/j.yqres.2015.03.005},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589415000290},
	author = {Yao, Qiang and Liu, Kam-biu and Platt, William J. and Rivera-Monroy, Victor H.}
}
