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|a A Survey and Inventory of the Plant Communities in the Raccoon Point Area, Big Cypress National Preserve |h [electronic resource] |b Report T-665 |y English. |
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|a Homestead ; |a Florida : |b National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, |c 1982-06. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the user's responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a The Raccoon Point area is one of five 50 km study areas in the Big Cypress
National Preserve. The study areas are used to establish a baseline inventory of
the plant communities of the Preserve. The Raccoon Point area is a mosaic of
upland south Florida slash pine forests and lower elevation pondcypress forests
(McPherson 1973). The pine forests in this study area are unique in the Preserve
because no evidence of logging is present (Patterson and Robertson 1981). The
older pine trees support a significant population of Red-cockaded woodpeckers,
Picoides borealis, a species on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service "endangered" list
(Patterson and Robertson 198 1).
Information on the current conditions of the plant communities in this area is
necessary for prudent resource management of habitat for endangered species, as
well as to preserve native systems. Many groups now utilize the area, each with
activities that affect ecological patterns. Seasonal hunting and associated burning
practices may have alte~ed the timing and frequency of fire (Duever et al. 1979,
Taylor 1980) in the pine and cypress forests. Also, development of oil production is
ongoing at the time of this writing. Hopefully, preliminary information on plant
species composition in relation to elevational, edaphic and hydrologic patterns will
be utilized in reclaiming disturbed sites when oil extraction activities are completed.
Three objectives were sought in this inventory: 1) Map the current spatial
distribution of the plant communities, 2) Quantitatively inventory the spatially
dominant plant communities, 3) Establish preliminary correlations between species
composition and environmental parameters of elevation, soils and hydrologic
pattern. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |c South Florida Natural Resource Center, |d 2015. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a South Florida Natural Resource Center. |
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|a SuDoc number: I 29.95: T-665 |
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|a Big Cypress National Preserve (Fla.). |
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|a South Florida Natural Resources Center/South Florida Research Center, Everglades National Park. |
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|a Everglades Digital Library: Reclaiming the Everglades. |
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|a South Florida Collection. |
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|a Federal Documents Collection. |
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|a dpSobek |c Everglades Digital Library: Reclaiming the Everglades |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI06658725/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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