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Coastal xeric scrub communities of the Treasure Coast region, Florida: a summary of their distribution and ecology, with guidelines for their preservation and management
Table of Contents
- Copyright permission
- Title page
- Executive summary
- Table of contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements and preface
- Introduction
- Figures for introduction
- Section 1: Scrub community descriptions and ecology
- Geology
- Soils
- Figures for soils
- Vegetation
- Figures for vegetation
- Wildlife
- Figures for wildlife
- Ecology
- Figures for ecology
- Section 2: Endangered, potentially endangered, or endemic species
- Vertebrates
- Figures for vertebrates
- Invertebrates
- Plants
- Figures for plants
- Section 3: Regulatory programs affecting scrub communities
- Federal authority
- State authority
- Regional authority
- Local authority
- Section 4: Criteria for scrub evaluation and preservation
- Species-area relationships and island biogeographic theory
- Minimum viable population size
- Generic preserve design
- Implications for scrub preserve design
- Scrub preserve selection
- Summary
- Section 5: Current distribution and endangerment of scrub communities
- Methods
- Results
- Figures for results
- Interpretation of soil and scrub data
- Discussion
- Section 6: Preservation, restoration, and management of coastal scrubs
- A regional scrub preserve system
- Other programs for scrub conservation
- Figures for other programs for scrub conservation
- Section 7: Recommendations for implementation of a regional scrub preserve system
- Potential sites for regional scrub preserve establishment
- Figures for potential sites for regional scrub preserve establishment
- Guideline implementation
- Figures for guideline implementation
- Conclusion
- References