The Origin And Successional Relationship Of Sandhill Vegetation And Sand-pine Scrub
Laessle AM. 1958. The Origin And Successional Relationship Of Sandhill Vegetation And Sand-pine Scrub. Ecological Monographs. 28(4):361-387
Of all the successional aspects published on Florida vegetation, those concerning the relationship of sandpine scrub ("scrub") and sandhill vegetation ("high pine-turkey oak," "longleaf-pine/turkey-oak," "high pine land," etc.) have been controversial. Kurz (1942) stated that "high pine land" vegetation was succeeded by scrub. Laessle (1942) considered that these communities had no seral relationship. Miller (1950) expressed the opinion that "sand-pine scrub" was succeeded by "high pine-turkey oak." Whitney (1896) stated that "there is no apparent reason, from the chemical or physical examination, to account for this difference in the native growth on scrub as compared with the high pine land or the hammock, and so far as our investigations show, there is no difference in the soil. The only explanation for the difference in the character of the vegetation is that it is accidental and that one kind of crop or another received a start and simply spread, the two kinds of vegetation not being capable of growing together.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Laessle, Albert
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- SFCN
- Keywords
- Currents, dune scrubs, hilltop scrubs, Pleistocene, scrub