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FLNT is located on within the Jones Ecological Research Center, a 117 km2 (29,000 acre) reserve privately owned and managed by the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation. The Flint River shapes 20.9 km (13 miles) of the eastern property boundary of the Center. The Flint River is a non-wadeable river flowing 554 km (344 mi.) through Georgia into Lake Seminole at the confluence of the Chattahoochee River. It is part of the ACF basin, ultimately feeding into the Apalachicola River and into the Gulf of Mexico. The sampling site is located at the southern extent of the watershed near the confluence with Ichawaynochaway Creek. The site is encompassed within the NEON Southeast Domain that is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Gulf of Mexico to the west. The surrounding region is a patchwork of forest, grassland, and wetland communities embedded in a matrix that is increasingly dominated by a fast-growing human population. The Domain hosts five other NEON field sites, including two additional aquatic sites and three terrestrial sites, located in Florida and Georgia. It is colocated with the JERC terrestrial field site.","citation":null,"relatedIdentifiers":null,"status":{"label":"Operational","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/elter_cl\/10772"},"yearEstablished":2014,"yearClosed":null,"relatedSites":[{"typeOfRelationship":{"label":"groups with","uri":"null"},"listOfSites":[{"type":"site","title":"The Jones Center At Ichauway NEON - United States of America","id":{"prefix":"https:\/\/deims.org\/","suffix":"2592b8ed-e6cf-4854-9488-e9459b9b458c"},"changed":"2025-09-17T15:01:35+0200"}]}],"siteName":"Flint River NEON","shortName":"FLNT","siteType":"Stationary land-based site","protectionLevel":null,"landUse":null,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/deims.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-06\/flint_river.jpg","alt":"Flint River"},{"url":"https:\/\/deims.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-06\/flint%20river%20buoy.jpg","alt":"Flint River Buoy"}]},"environmentalCharacteristics":{"airTemperature":{"yearlyAverage":19.2,"monthlyAverage":null,"unit":"\u00b0C","referencePeriod":null},"precipitation":{"yearlyAverage":1311,"monthlyAverage":null,"unit":"mm","referencePeriod":null},"biogeographicalRegion":null,"biome":"mixed_forest","ecosystemType":[{"label":"Forest","uri":null},{"label":"Mixed Forest","uri":null}],"eunisHabitat":null,"landforms":null,"geoBonBiome":["Coastal"],"geology":"The Flint River is situated on the Dougherty Plain, which demonstrates a karst topography. The limestone geology of the Flint River site is significant because groundwater is able to seep through fissures in the bedrock and form rocky stream channels. The river bed also consists of undifferentiated clay, mud, and beach sand.","hydrology":"The Flint River has a watershed size of approximately 14,999 km2 (5791 sq. mi.).The flow of the river depends on the season; the base flow occurring in fall and the peak flow occurring in spring. The variability in the base flow and peak flow throughout the year corresponds to approximately a 2 meter change in water levels. There are two hydropower dams upriver from the site; one approximately 80 km (50 mi.) upriver near Albany, GA and another approximately 49 km (30 mi.) upriver from Albany near Cordele, GA.","soils":"Soils are fairly homogeneous within the Jones Center and are representative of soils of the Southern Coastal Plains. The Flint River contains soils consisting of undifferentiated clay, mud, and beach sand.","vegetation":"The aquatic and wetland habitats surrounding the Flint River site range from cypress-gum ponds and grassy, ephemeral wetlands to riverine habitats, such as cypress sloughs. Diverse hardwood forests, called hammocks, are found on alluvial soils adjacent to the Flint River. Dominant plant taxa include: pignut hickory (Carya glabra), southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), live oak (Quercus virginiana), sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), Florida maple (Acer floridanum), white ash (Fraxinus americana), swamp ash (Fraxinus caroliniana), sugarberry (Celtis laevigata), dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor), Gulf Sebastian-bush (Ditrysinia fruticosa), saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), and Virginia willow (Itea virginica)."},"geographic":{"boundaries":null,"coordinates":"POINT (-84.4374 31.18542)","country":["United States of America"],"elevation":{"avg":45,"min":44,"max":44,"unit":"msl"},"size":{"value":null,"unit":"ha"},"relatedLocations":null},"focusDesignScale":{"experiments":{"design":"mainly experimentation","scale":"catchment scale"},"observations":{"design":"mainly observation","scale":"entire catchment"},"observedProperties":[{"label":"DNA sequence","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/21400"},{"label":"genetic parameter","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/20942"},{"label":"land cover","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/22142"},{"label":"landscape parameter","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/20943"},{"label":"water parameter","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/20945"},{"label":"water quality","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/EnvThes\/22312"}]},"infrastructure":{"accessibleAllYear":true,"accessType":null,"allPartsAccessible":null,"maintenanceInterval":null,"permanentPowerSupply":true,"operation":{"permanent":true,"notes":null,"siteVisitInterval":null},"notes":null,"collection":null,"data":{"policy":{"url":null,"rights":null,"notes":null}}},"relatedResources":null,"projectRelated":{"lter":{"lterSiteClassification":null}}}}