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South Florida ecological study Appendix G, Part 1. Recent and long-term vegetation changes and patterns in South Florida. Preliminary report.

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Date Issued:
1973-05
Summary:
Vegetational change, or plant succession, is described for southern Florida. Several significant shifts in species composition within communities, as well as the replacement of communities, are recognized. These are documented for a 16 to 30-year period and include a landward increase of mangrove forests, loss of coastal hardwood hammocks, both gain and loss of everglade tree islands, replacement of sawgrass by shrubs, pine and hardwood invasion of cypress, and pineland succession to hammock. The specific impact of farming, canals, roads, and exotic plants are also covered. These observations were made during photographic and on-site analysis of one-hundred-mile-square quadrants.
Title: South Florida ecological study Appendix G, Part 1. Recent and long-term vegetation changes and patterns in South Florida. Preliminary report.
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Alternative Title: Recent and long-term vegetation changes and patterns in South Florida Part 1. Preliminary report.
Name(s): Alexander, Taylor R. (Taylor Richard), 1915-
Crook, Alan G.
United States Dept. of the Interior.
University of Miami
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Technical Report
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1973-05
Publisher: University of Miami
Available from the National Technical Information Service
Place of Publication: Coral Gables, Fla.
Physical Form: electronic
electronic resource
Extent: 215 pages,illustrations, maps, 29 cm.
Language(s): English
Summary: Vegetational change, or plant succession, is described for southern Florida. Several significant shifts in species composition within communities, as well as the replacement of communities, are recognized. These are documented for a 16 to 30-year period and include a landward increase of mangrove forests, loss of coastal hardwood hammocks, both gain and loss of everglade tree islands, replacement of sawgrass by shrubs, pine and hardwood invasion of cypress, and pineland succession to hammock. The specific impact of farming, canals, roads, and exotic plants are also covered. These observations were made during photographic and on-site analysis of one-hundred-mile-square quadrants.
Identifier: FI26446230 (IID), 1002331 (digitool), PB231939 NTIS Accession number (stock number), NRBIB:EVER-6720 (NPS Natural Resources Bibliography Number) (stock number), fiu:27537 (fedora), AAA7488QF
Note(s): by Taylor R. Alexander and Alan G. Crook.
"(Final report, Part II, under the contract due by June 1975)."
"May 1973."
"(EVER-N-51)"
"PB231939"--from cover.
Prepared for the Department of the Interior.
Bibliography: p. 211-215.
Sponsored by the National Park Service.
Preliminary report.
Subject(s): Plant ecology -- Florida
Environmental protection -- Florida
Plant succession -- Florida
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05032503.pdf
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05032503.jpg
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Host Institution: FIU
Is Part of Series: South Florida Environmental Project ecological report. no. DI-SFEP-74-08.