Florida LAKEWATCH Water Chemistry Summary
Location: Latitude 28°35'56", Longitude 81°48'56"
Period of record: 35 sampling dates; May 9, 1990 to December 7, 1999
Surface area (LAKEWATCH): 613 acres / 248 hectacres (Bathymetric Map)
Lake Region (Griffith et al. 1997): Clermont Uplands
Geologic formation (Brooks 1981):
The geology is dominated by deeply weathered clayey sand and granular sand of the Hawthorne Formation.
Physiographic region (Brooks 1981):
The water body lies in the Groveland Karst division of the Central Lake
District.
Supplemental, unpublished water chemistry data, University of Florida.
Numbers reported below are the average for 7 months sampled:
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Long-term Florida LAKEWATCH Data
Numbers reported below are the minimum, average, and maximum value for the 35 months sampled:
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1999 Florida LAKEWATCH Data
Numbers reported below are monthly averages calculated from 3 stations for total phosphorus (TP, µg/L), total nitrogen (TN, µg/L), chlorophyll (CHL, µg/L) and Secchi depth (SECCHI, ft) during 1999:
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Cherry (Lake County)
Florida LAKEWATCH Aquatic Plant Summary
Aquatic plant data collected on May 21, 1992
| Percent area covered with aquatic vegetation (PAC, %) |
36
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| Percent of lake's volume filled with vegetation (PVI, %) |
4
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| Average emergent plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2) |
2.6
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| Average floating-leaved plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2) |
1.6
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| Average submersed plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2) |
1.1
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| Average width of emergent and floating-leaved zone (ft.) |
165
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| Average lake depth (m) |
3
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Frequency that plant species occur in 10 evenly spaced transects around the lake.
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| maidencane | Panicum hemitomon |
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| duck-potato | Sagittaria lancifolia |
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| spatterdock | Nuphar luteum |
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| pickerelweed | Pontederia cordata |
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| lemon bacopa | Bacopa caroliniana |
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| sawgrass | Cladium jamaicense |
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| buttonbush | Cephalanthus occidentalis |
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| bladderwort | Utricularia foliosa |
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| banana-lily | Nymphoides aquatica |
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| cat-tail | Typha spp. |
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| water-pennywort | Hydrocotyle umbellata |
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| coontail | Ceratophyllum demersum |
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| variable-leaf milfoil | Myriophyllum heterophyllum |
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| rush fuirena | Fuirena scirpoidea |
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| fragrant water-lily | Nymphaea odorata |
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| bacopa | Bacopa monnieri |
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| tapegrass | Vallisneria americana |
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| water primrose | Ludwigia octovalvis |
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| southern cutgrass | Leersia hexandra |
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| slender spikerush | Eleocharis baldwinii |
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| red ludwigia | Ludwigia repens |
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| lizard's-tail | Saururus cernuus |
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| cone-spur bladderwort | Utricularia gibba |
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| willow | Salix spp. |
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| flat-sedge | Cyperus odoratus |
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| torpedograss | Panicum repens |
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| pipewort | Eriocaulon spp. |
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| red root | Lachnanthes caroliniana |
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| knot grass | Paspalum distichum |
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| jointed flat sedge | Cyperus haspan |
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Cherry (Lake County)
Florida LAKEWATCH Aquatic Plant Summary
Aquatic plant data collected on June 2, 1999
| Percent area covered with aquatic vegetation (PAC, %) |
10
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| Percent of lake's volume filled with vegetation (PVI, %) |
4
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| Average emergent plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2) |
3.0
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| Average floating-leaved plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2) |
2.8
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| Average submersed plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2) |
0.1
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| Average width of emergent and floating-leaved zone (ft.) |
162
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| Average lake depth (m) |
3
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Frequency that plant species occur in 10 evenly spaced transects around the lake.
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| maidencane | Panicum hemitomon |
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| slender spikerush | Eleocharis baldwinii |
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| pickerelweed | Pontederia cordata |
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| buttonbush | Cephalanthus occidentalis |
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| sawgrass | Cladium jamaicense |
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| banana-lily | Nymphoides aquatica |
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| big rose mallow | Hibiscus grandiflorus |
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| duck-potato | Sagittaria lancifolia |
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| spatterdock | Nuphar luteum |
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| lemon bacopa | Bacopa caroliniana |
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| wax myrtle | Myrica cerifera |
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| fragrant water-lily | Nymphaea odorata |
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| water primrose | Ludwigia octovalvis |
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| willow | Salix spp. |
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| torpedograss | Panicum repens |
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| water-pennywort | Hydrocotyle umbellata |
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| variable-leaf milfoil | Myriophyllum heterophyllum |
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| cat-tail | Typha spp. |
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| coontail | Ceratophyllum demersum |
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| Brazilian elodea | Egeria densa |
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| southern naiad | Najas guadalupensis |
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| slender naiad | Najas minor |
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| rush fuirena | Fuirena scirpoidea |
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| St. John's wort | Hypericum spp. |
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| spider-lily | Hymenocallis spp. |
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| bald cypress | Taxodium distichum |
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| giant spikerush | Eleocharis interstincta |
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| red maple | Acer rubrum |
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| red bay | Persea borbonia |
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Cherry (Lake County)
Electrofishing Data
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| Black crappie |
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| Dollar sunfish |
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| Florida gar |
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| Golden shiner |
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| Lake chubsucker |
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| Largemouth bass |
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| Pugnose minnow |
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| Redear sunfish |
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| Taillight shiner |
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1 Total # of species = 15.
2 Weights calculated using regressions from Hoyer and Canfield
1994 and from Bill Schaeffer, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
(personal communication).
Catch per unit of effort (kg of fish / hour of sampling) versus total chlorophyll (mg/m3) and number of fish species collected versus surface area of lake for 60 Florida lakes sampled by Canfield and Hoyer (1992) (•) and Lake Cherry (Lake County) electrofishing sampling (o). The lines represent linear regressions for logged values of the 60 Florida lakes.
Cherry (Lake County)
Trawl Data
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| bluegill |
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| Florida gar |
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| redear |
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| redear |
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| threadfin shad |
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