A Survey and Inventory of the Plant Communities in the Raccoon Point Area, Big Cypress National Preserve
Gunderson LH and Loope LL. 1982. A Survey and Inventory of the Plant Communities in the Raccoon Point Area, Big Cypress National Preserve. SFRC T-665. South Florida Natural Resources Center. Homestead, Florida
The Raccoon Point area is one of five 50 km2 study areas in the Big Cypress National Preserve. The study areas are used to establish a baseline inventory of the plant communities of the Preserve. The Raccoon Point area is a mosaic of upland south Florida slash pine forests and lower elevation pondcypress forests (McPherson, 1973). The pine forests in this study area are unique in the Preserve because no evidence of logging is present (Patterson and Robertson, 1981). The older pine trees support a significant population of Red-cockaded woodpeckers, Picoides borealis, a species on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service "endangered" list (Patterson and Robertson, 1981).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Gunderson, Lance; Loope, Lloyd
- Date of Issue
- 1982-06
- Publisher
- South Florida Natural Resources Center
- Units
- BICY
- Keywords
- Big Cypress, Inventory, Plant, Raccoon Point, SFNRCTRS