Kominoski, John
- Associate Professor, Biological Sciences , College of Arts, Sciences & Education
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Overview
overview
- Dr. John Kominoski is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University (Miami, Florida, USA). He is an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist who studies how changes in water chemistry (elevated dissolved nutrients, saltwater intrusion) affect the rates of organic matter processes and the net effects on carbon storage in terrestrial, aquatic, and coastal wetland ecosystems. He is also the lead PI of the Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research Program for which he leads research projects investigating: 1) wet and dry season dynamics on aquatic ecosystem metabolism as driven by water column depth and flocculent organic matter, 2) subsidy-stress effects of saltwater intrusion on wetland soil ecosystems, and 3) long-term interactive effects of storm-induced phosphorus loading and drought on ecosystem productivity and nutrient dynamics spanning freshwater, brackish, and marine wetlands.
research interests
- Dr. Kominoski's research group explores various scales of organic matter processing along gradients of environmental drivers within and among ecosystems, testing two main questions: How does spatial and temporal availability of organic matter and nutrients drive autotrophic, heterotrophic, and net ecosystem productivity? How do abiotic and biotic drivers and responses to environmental changes affect ecosystem functions, specifically the loss, storage, and movement of carbon (energy) within and among ecosystems?
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2021Changes in Sediment Organic Carbon Accumulation under Conditions of Historical Sea-Level Rise, Southeast Saline Everglades, Florida, USA. WETLANDS. 41.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s13157-021-01440-7 Web of Science: 000631157300002
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2020Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital-based food webs: a global meta-analysis from streams and rivers. BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/brv.12673 Web of Science: 000599308900001
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2020Carbonate-Associated Organic Matter Is a Detectable Dissolved Organic Matter Source in a Subtropical Seagrass Meadow. FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE. 7.Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.580284 Web of Science: 000592000200001
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2020Quantifying effects of increased hydroperiod on wetland nutrient concentrations during early phases of freshwater restoration of the Florida Everglades. RESTORATION ECOLOGY.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/rec.13231 Web of Science: 000571760000001
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2020Comparing the Biogeochemistry of Storm Surge Sediments and Pre-storm Soils in Coastal Wetlands: Hurricane Irma and the Florida Everglades. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 43:1090-1103.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-019-00607-0 Web of Science: 000537511500013
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2020Resistance to Hurricane Effects Varies Among Wetland Vegetation Types in the Marsh-Mangrove Ecotone. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 43:960-970.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-019-00577-3 Web of Science: 000537511500003
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2020A Research Framework to Integrate Cross-Ecosystem Responses to Tropical Cyclones. BIOSCIENCE. 70:477-489.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaa034 Web of Science: 000542039600010
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2020Transport of N and P in US streams and rivers differs with land use and between dissolved and particulate forms. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/eap.2130 Web of Science: 000530150700001
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2020A System Level Analysis of Coastal Ecosystem Responses to Hurricane Impacts. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 43:943-959.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-019-00690-3 Web of Science: 000532143700001
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2020Disturbance legacies increase and synchronize nutrient concentrations and bacterial productivity in coastal ecosystems. ECOLOGY. 101.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2988 Web of Science: 000521806700001
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2020Hurricanes fertilize mangrove forests in the Gulf of Mexico (Florida Everglades, USA). PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 117:4831-4841.Full Text via DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1908597117 Web of Science: 000518473500057
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2020Effects of Saltwater Pulses on Soil Microbial Enzymes and Organic Matter Breakdown in Freshwater and Brackish Coastal Wetlands. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 43:814-830.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-020-00708-1 Web of Science: 000516242300001
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2020Periphyton as an indicator of saltwater intrusion into freshwater wetlands: insights from experimental manipulations. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS. 30.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/eap.2067 Web of Science: 000514013300001
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2020Long-Term Ecological Research and Evolving Frameworks of Disturbance Ecology. BIOSCIENCE. 70:141-156.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz162 Web of Science: 000518528700012
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2020Percentile-Range Indexed Mapping and Evaluation (PRIME): A new tool for long-term data discovery and application. ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE. 124.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104580 Web of Science: 000510853300020
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2020Quantifying how changing mangrove cover affects ecosystem carbon storage in coastal wetlands. ECOLOGY. 101.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2916 Web of Science: 000513811400005
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2019Experimental Saltwater Intrusion Drives Rapid Soil Elevation and Carbon Loss in Freshwater and Brackish Everglades Marshes. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 42:1868-1881.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-019-00620-3 Web of Science: 000489866500012
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2019Plant phylogenetic history explains in-stream decomposition at a global scale. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13262 Web of Science: 000482092400001
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2019Phosphorus alleviation of salinity stress: effects of saltwater intrusion on an Everglades freshwater peat marsh. ECOLOGY. 100.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2672 Web of Science: 000477642200009
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2019The Invisible Flood: The Chemistry, Ecology, and Social Implications of Coastal Saltwater Intrusion. BIOSCIENCE. 69:368-378.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz027 Web of Science: 000469493500011
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2019Effects of Nutrient-Limitation on Disturbance Recovery in Experimental Mangrove Wetlands. WETLANDS. 39:337-347.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s13157-018-1100-z Web of Science: 000466512100012
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2019Saltwater intrusion and soil carbon loss: Testing effects of salinity and phosphorus loading on microbial functions in experimental freshwater wetlands. GEODERMA. 337.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.11.013 Web of Science: 000456761500127
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2018Declines in Plant Productivity Drive Carbon Loss from Brackish Coastal Wetland Mesocosms Exposed to Saltwater Intrusion. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 41.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-018-0438-z Web of Science: 000448508400001
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2018Salinity pulses interact with seasonal dry-down to increase ecosystem carbon loss in marshes of the Florida Everglades. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS. 28.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/eap.1798 Web of Science: 000451913200013
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2018Variation in Detrital Resource Stoichiometry Signals Differential Carbon to Nutrient Limitation for Stream Consumers Across Biomes. ECOSYSTEMS. 21.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10021-018-0247-z Web of Science: 000450919700013
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2018Functional and Compositional Responses of Periphyton Mats to Simulated Saltwater Intrusion in the Southern Everglades. ESTUARIES AND COASTS. 41.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12237-018-0415-6 Web of Science: 000445240600018
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2018Advancing Theories of Ecosystem Development through Long-Term Ecological Research. BIOSCIENCE. 68.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biy070 Web of Science: 000440982400004
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2018Continental-scale decrease in net primary productivity in streams due to climate warming. NATURE GEOSCIENCE. 11.Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0125-5 Web of Science: 000433901600014
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2018Episodic disturbances drive nutrient dynamics along freshwater-to-estuary gradients in a subtropical wetland. ECOSPHERE. 9.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2296 Web of Science: 000439997600017
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2018Effects of sea-level rise and freshwater management on long-term water levels and water quality in the Florida Coastal Everglades. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. 211:164-176.
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2018Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus additions increase rates of stream ecosystem respiration and carbon loss. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY. 63:22-36.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/lno.10610 Web of Science: 000423029300002
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2018Nutrients and temperature additively increase stream microbial respiration. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. 24:E233-E247.
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2018Patterns and drivers of fish extirpations in rivers of the American Southwest and Southeast. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. 24:1175-1185.
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2018Short-Term Effects of Drying-Rewetting and Long-Term Effects of Nutrient Loading on Periphyton N:P Stoichiometry. WATER. 10.Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/w10020105 Web of Science: 000426775500015
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2017Synthesis of public water supply use in the United States: Spatio-temporal patterns and socio-economic controls. EARTHS FUTURE. 5.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000511 Web of Science: 000407785600010
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2017Coastal regime shifts: rapid responses of coastal wetlands to changes in mangrove cover. ECOLOGY. 98:762-772.
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2017Global synthesis of the temperature sensitivity of leaf litter breakdown in streams and rivers. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. 23:3064-3075.
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2017Leaf-litter leachate concentration promotes heterotrophy in freshwater biofilms: Understanding consequences of water scarcity. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 599:1677-1684.
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2016Baseflow physical characteristics differ at multiple spatial scales in stream networks across diverse biomes. LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY. 31:119-136.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0289-y Web of Science: 000367598200010
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2016Convergence of detrital stoichiometry predicts thresholds of nutrient-stimulated breakdown in streams. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS. 26:1745-1757.
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2015Low-to-moderate nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations accelerate microbially driven litter breakdown rates. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS. 25.Full Text via DOI: 10.1890/14-1113.1.sm Web of Science: 000351849700024
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2014Improving the culture of interdisciplinary collaboration in ecology by expanding measures of success. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 12:39-47.Full Text via DOI: 10.1890/120370 Web of Science: 000335370600006
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2014Leaf-litter leachate and light interactively enhance accrual of stream biofilms. FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED LIMNOLOGY. 184:297-306.Full Text via DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2014/0602 Web of Science: 000340577100004
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2014Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 12:5-14.Full Text via DOI: 10.1890/130017 Web of Science: 000335370600002
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2013Forecasting functional implications of global changes in riparian plant communities. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 11:423-432.Full Text via DOI: 10.1890/120056 Web of Science: 000325148500007
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2013INTEGRATED CARBON BUDGET MODELS FOR THE EVERGLADES TERRESTRIAL-COASTAL-OCEANIC GRADIENT Current Status and Needs for Inter-Site Comparisons. OCEANOGRAPHY. 26:98-107.Full Text via DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2013.51 Web of Science: 000323808600015
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Correction
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2019The Invisible Flood: The Chemistry, Ecology, and Social Implications of Coastal Saltwater Intrusion (vol 69, pg 368, 2019). BIOSCIENCE. 760-760.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz083 Web of Science: 000493317500008
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Meeting Abstract
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2019Variation in sediment nutrient concentrations in an urban-mangrove ecosystem, Pinones, Puerto Rico. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000478861200512
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2018Understanding water source contribution in urban stormwater. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000435537704130
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2018Variation in sediment nutrient concentrations in an urban-mangrove ecosystem, Pinones, Puerto Rico. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.Web of Science: 000435537704111
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Review
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2018Defining Extreme Events: A Cross-Disciplinary Review. EARTHS FUTURE. 441-455.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/2017EF000686 Web of Science: 000430171600011
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2017Bridging Food Webs, Ecosystem Metabolism, and Biogeochemistry Using Ecological Stoichiometry Theory. FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY.
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Charles, Sean Patrick, Saltwater Intrusion and Vegetation Shifts Drive Changes in Carbon Storage in Coastal Wetlands 2018
- Servais, Shelby M, Changes in Soil Microbial Functioning in Coastal Wetlands Exposed to Environmental Stressors and Subsidies 2018
advised honors theses
Research
principal investigator on
- Assessing Near-Field and Landscape-Scale Ecological Effects of the Modified Water Deliveries and Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Projects in Northeast Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park awarded by National Park Service 2021 - 2026
- LTER: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystem Research awarded by National Science Foundation 2021 - 2025
- Research Coordination Network for Hurricane Ecosystem Response Synthesis (RCN-HERS) awarded by National Science Foundation 2021 - 2024
- Collaborative Research: Scales and drivers of variability in dissolved organic carbon across diverse urban watersheds awarded by National Science Foundation 2021 - 2024
- Understanding seagrass inputs on the mangrove soil elevation in Biscayne National Park awarded by National Park Service 2021 - 2023
- Investigate sediment and floc transport of phosphorus at S333 gated structure on the northern boundary of Everglades National Park awarded by National Park Service 2020 - 2022
- Quantifying how variability in hydroperiod and fire mediate plant-soil biogeochemical cycling and productivity in boundary wetlands of everglades national park awarded by National Park Service 2018 - 2022
- Assessing Near-Field and Landscape Scale Ecological Effects of the Modified Water Deliveries and Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Projects in Northeast Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park awarded by National Park Service 2016 - 2022
- CESU - Dredging Impacts on Sediment and Phosphorus Mobilization at the Northern Boundary of Everglades National Park awarded by National Park Service 2020 - 2022
- The effects of shifting coastal wetland plant communities on the restoration of food webs that support coastal living resources awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin 2018 - 2022
- Ecosystem Responses to Hurricanes Synthesis Workshop awarded by National Science Foundation 2019 - 2020
- Collaborative Research: Do mangroves provide better coastal protection than salt marshes? A Hurricane Harvey case study from Port Aransas, Texas, USA awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2019
- DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Sea level rise, vegetation regime shifts: implications for soil carbon storage and resilience in Everglades coastal wetlands awarded by National Science Foundation 2016 - 2019
- Collaborative Research: Scale, Consumers and Lotic Ecosystem Rates (SCALER): awarded by National Science Foundation 2013 - 2017
- WSC- Category 3: Collaborative Research: Water Sustainability under Near-term Climate Change: A Cross-Regional Analysis Incorporating Socio-Ecological Feedbacks and Adaptations awarded by National Science Foundation 2013 - 2017
co-principal investigator on
- LTER: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystem Research awarded by National Science Foundation 2021 - 2025
- Hurricane Irma effects on Florida Everglades Mangroves: Assessment of Resilience and Trajectories of Recovery awarded by National Park Service 2020 - 2022
- LTER: Drivers of Abrupt Change in the Florida Coastal Everglades awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2022
- Urban resilience to climate change-driven extreme events awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2022
- Effects of sea-level rise on coastal Everglades and assessments of landscape vulnerability for management. awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin 2018 - 2021
- RAPID: HURRICANE IRMA: How do ecosystem perturbations interact to influence long-term resilience mechanisms? awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2019
- LTER: FCE LTER III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2019
- Mechanisms of peat collapse in Everglades coastal ecosystems: Phase II salinity manipulations and sediment elevation change awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin 2016 - 2018
- Effects of saltwater intrusion on Everglades peat soil awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin 2014 - 2016
subproject principal investigator on
- LTER: Drivers of Abrupt Change in the Florida Coastal Everglades awarded by National Science Foundation 2018 - 2022
- LTER: FCE LTER III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2019
Contact
full name
- John Kominoski
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0978-3326 (confirmed)
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