Impact of 22 Years of Fire on Understory Hardwood Shrubs in Slash Pine Communities within Everglades National Park
Taylor DL and Herndon A. 1981. Impact of 22 Years of Fire on Understory Hardwood Shrubs in Slash Pine Communities within Everglades National Park. SFRC T-640. South Florida Natural Resources Center. Homestead, Florida
Everglades National Park, established in 1947, is a subtropical region that covers 566,300 hectares (ha) of land and water at the extreme southern tip of Florida. Terrestrial area, totaling 285,000 ha, is comprised of an estimated 133,000 ha of mangrove and saltmarsh, 148,000 ha of prairie and 8,000 ha of pineland (Klukas, 1973). The pinelands and prairies have the highest fire frequencies and account for most of the 182,000 ha that have burned since 1948.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Taylor, Dale; Herndon, Alan
- Date of Issue
- 1981-09
- Publisher
- South Florida Natural Resources Center
- Units
- EVER
- Keywords
- everglades, FIRE, SFNRCTRS, slash pine, Understory