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Assessment of Florida's Remaining Coastal Upland Natural Communities: Southeast Florida
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Coastal Zone Management-supported staff of the Florida Natural Areas Inventory identified and processed existing data on 20-acre or larger occurrences of certain coastal upland natural communities on southeast Florida's barrier islands and ocean-front shores (excluding Florida Keys). Public and private lands were included. Field surveys were also conducted for each site. Data collected included plant species lists, community structure, presence or absence of uninterrupted transitions between communities, degree of invasion by exotic species, and physical disturbance. All data were entered into the FNAI data base. Sites were then compared and ranked based primarily on quality and condition. Sixty-six sites in southeast Florida were addressed. On public lands, 9 excellent and 11 good sites were identified; on private lands, 10 excellent and 11 good sites were identified. The major coastal upland community not adequately represented on publicly owned lands is the temperature/tropical maritime hammock. Among the sites in private ownership rated as excellent, eight have substantial acreages of good quality occurrences of the community. Beach dune and coastal strand are fairly well represented in public ownership. Tropical hammock has no large site in either public or private ownership. Five rare plant species were found in this sector of the coast.
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