Media Category: Sites

Bromeliad air plant with cobwebs between its red leaves. Photo from FCE-LTER site SRS-4.

Fallen mangrove leaves on the forest floor, in various stages of decomposition. Photo from FCE-LTER site SRS-4.

Bits of mangrove tree debris and crab “droppings” that have accumulated in the mesh netting of a leaf litter collection plot at FCE-LTER site SRS-4.

Graduate student Paige Kleindl collects mangrove leaf litter that has fallen into a collection plot at FCE-LTER site SRS-4.

Spiderweb catching the sun’s morning rays at FCE-LTER site SRS-4. The silken strands refract the light into a kaleidoscope of color.

Spiny orbweaver spider (Gasteracantha cancriformis) suspended in the air at FCE-LTER site SRS-4.

Long-jawed orbweaver spider (cf. Leucauge mariana) with the sun shining through its body, suspended in its web in the mangrove forest at FCE-LTER site SRS-6.

Boating through the narrow Mangrove channels of Everglades National Park.

Boating across open water in Whitewater Bay.

A wall of mangrove roots line a canal bank in Everglades National Park.