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Plant Species Richness And Species Area Relationships In A Florida Sandhill, Monica Ruth Downer
Plant Species Richness And Species Area Relationships In A Florida Sandhill, Monica Ruth Downer
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Pine sandhill are integral pyrogenic communities in the southeastern United States. Though once widespread, habitat destruction, fire suppression and fragmentation have reduced the population to nearly 3%. It is important to learn as much as possible about these unique areas in order to implement best management practices to conserve and restore the existing populations of these communities.
Fire is central to the maintenance of pine sandhill communities and two conceptual hypothesis regarding burn frequency have come to light in maintaining the unique species composition and richness of these areas. The first is the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis which suggests that intermediate …