Florida Keys

Concentrations of tar fouling beaches of southeast Florida and the Florida Keys averaged 9.8 g m-2, an order of magnitude greater than the mean for the rest of the state (31). Remarkably, there was no significant increase over the amount observed on Florida beaches 30 years previously (32). Further, there was no evidence that the oil anticipated from the IXTOC-I blowout ever impinged upon the beaches of Florida (14, 33). 

Meehan, T.D., Lott, C.A., Sharp, Z.D., Smith, R.B., Rosenfield, R.N., Stewart, A.C., Murphy, R.K. (2001). Using hydrogen isotope geochemistry to estimate the natal latitudes of immature Cooper s hawks migrating through the Florida keys. Condor, Vol. 103,11-20. 

Lapointe BE, O Connell JD, Garrett GS (1990) Nutrient couplings between on-site sewage disposal systems, ground waters, and nearshore surface waters of the Florida Keys. Biogeochem 10 289-307... 

Koetsier G, Elliott T, Fruijtier C (1999) Constraints on diagenetic age disturbance combined uranium-protactinium and uranium-thorium ages of the key Largo Formation, Florida Keys, USA. Ninth Atmual V. M. Goldschmidt Conf 157-158... 

The compound debromoisocymobarbatol from Florida Keys specimens inhibits parrotfishes, the fish Lagodon rhomboides, and the amphipod Hyale macrodactyla (Park et al. 1992). Cymopol from Florida inhibits the gastropod Littorina littorea (Targett and McConnnell 1982). Cymopol from Caribbean inhibits reef fishes (Hay et al. 1987)... 

On the other hand, association with more palatable seaweeds may have a negative impact on the chemically defended partner. For example, Halimeda specimens from Conch Reef, Florida Keys, with more than 50% of their thalli covered by Dictyota grow significantly slower than unepiphytized thalli (Beach et al. 2003). This study also verified that epiphytic Dictyota negatively affects metabolic rates of Halimeda tuna in part by shading their thalli, but probably also by chemical means, because the exposure to Dictyota-conditioned water elevated respiration rates in a manner similar to when H. tuna is naturally epiphytized by Dictyota. 

This HDAC inhibitor (Fig. 15) was isolated from a cyanobacterium Symplaca sp. collected from the Florida Keys. This depsipeptide was described by Leusch and coworkers in lOOSP It has been shown to be potent at low nanomolar ranges against mammary cancer cell lines MDA-MB-231, HT29 colon cancer cells, IMR-32 neuroblastoma cells and U20S fibroblastic osteosarcoma cells. ... 

Pept barbamide and (lipopept.l microcolins and antillatoxin (Lyngbya majvscula Oomont, Cyanobact. Yokokawa 2000) salinamides (depsipept. from Streptomyces sp. Actinom., Bact. from jellyfish Cassiopeia xamachana from Florida keys Trischman 1994A). 

Emery, A.R., Comparative ecology and functional osteology of fourteen species of damselfish (Pisces Pomacentridae) at Alligator Reef, Florida Keys, Bull. Mar. Sci., 23, 649, 1973. 

Lapointe, B.E., and Matzie, W.R. (1996) Effects of stormwater nutrient discharges on eutrophication processes in nearshore waters of the Florida Keys. Estuaries 19, 422-435. 

Norris, D.R., Bomber, J. W, and Balech, E. 1985. Bendiic dinoflagellates associated widi ciguatera from die Florida Keys. I. Ostreopsis heptagona sp. nov. In Toxic Dinoflagellates, ed. Anderson, D.M., White, A.W., and Baden, D.G. New York Elsevier Scientific, 39-44. 

After these highly promising laboratory results were obtained, small field experiments were initiated to evaluate the potential for housefly control, and to develop techniques for judging the success of such experiments (5, 6, 9), Three fairly isolated sites were chosen a dump on Bahia Honda Key (one of the Florida Keys) a dump on Pine Island, a few miles northwest of Fort Myers, Fla. and a poultry house in the suburbs of Orlando, Fla. A bait of granulated com meal, sugar, powdered milk, and powdered egg was the carrier used for application of the chemosterilants. On Bahia Honda, the bait included 0.5% of tepa and was broadcast at weekly intervals on Pine Island it included 0.75% of apholate and initially was applied at weekly intervals, but because of heavy daily rains the gross weekly amount was divided by 5 and applied daily. At the poultry house 0.5% metepa baits were applied. Initially applications were made weekly later, semiweekly. 

Lapointe, B. E. (1987). Phosphorus- and nitrogen-limited photosynthesis and growth of Gradlaria tikvahiae (Rhodophyceae) in the Florida Keys An experimental field study. Mar. Biol. 93, 561-568. 

Szmant, A. M., and Forrester, A. (1996). Water column and sediment nitrogen and phosphorus distribution patterns in the Florida Keys, USA. Coral Reefs. 15(1), 21—41. 

Lapointe, B. E., Barile, P. J., and Matzie, W. R. (2004). Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment of seagrass and coral reef communities in the Lower Florida Keys Discrimination of local versus regional nitrogen sources.Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 308, 23—58. 

Emiliani C., Hudson J., Shinn E., and George R. (1978) Oxygen and carbon isotopic growth record in a reef coral from the Florida keys and a deep-sea coral from Blake Plateau. Science 202, 627-628. 

A few secondary coasts owe their characteristics to marine organisms rather than to the sea s physical processes. Both plants and animals can add their own customized touches to a coast. In the tropics, small anemone-like sea animals called corals build extensive reefs along the coasts. Coral animals surround themselves with a hard skeleton of calcium. When a coral animal dies, its skeleton becomes part of an ever-growing underwater skyscraper made of living organisms atop the skeletons of dead ones. The Florida Keys, a string of islands off the tip of Florida, have coral reef coasts. 

Ginsburg, R.N. (1953b) Intertidal erosion on the Florida Keys. Bulletin of Marine Science Gulf and Caribbean 3, 55-69. 

Hattin, D.E. Dodd, J.R. (1978) Holocene cementation of carbonate sediments in the Florida Keys. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 48, 307-312. 

Fig. 6.24 Lead concentrations in dated year bands from a coral collected from the Florida Keys. After Shen and Boyle (1987), with permission from Elsevier Science.

Feel a touch of the Florida Keys while kicking back at Old Dog New Trick Cafe (307 Exchange Alley, b 504-522-4569). You ll miss Florida s cooling breezes as you sit outdoors in the hot and sultry French Quarter, but you ll enjoy the quick and light all-vegetarian fare. Items such as polenta stuffed with black beans and feta and grilled tofu with peanut ginger sauce make this a unique New Orleans find. 

Manheim and Horn (1968) summarized subsurface hydrochemical data from a shoreline transect extending from Long Island to the Florida Keys and provided a map of inferred salinity distributions from surface to igneous—metamorphic basement. The southeastern Atlantic region from... 

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