Florida Panther Distribution
Belden RC, Frankenberger WB, Roof JC. 1991. Florida Panther Distribution. Tallahassee, FL
The Florida Panther Record Clearinghouse received 4,620 panther (Felis concolor) reports from October 1976 through June 1990. Supporting evidence was supplied with only 404 of the reports. Ninety-one of these proved conclusively to be from panthers. Field smveys were conducted on 52 areas. During these surveys 4,427+ man-hours were spent searching in excess of 15,219 km of dirt roads, trails, and firelanes. Panther sign was fonnd consistently in south Florida and sporadically along the St. Jolms River watershed. The only resident breeding population of panthers in Florida occurs in the Big Cypress and Everglades physiographic region, primarily in Dade, Collier, and Hendry Counties.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Belden, Robert; Frankenberger, William; Roof, Jayde
- Date of Issue
- 1991
- Units
- SFCN
- Keywords
- Habitat, panther record clearinghouse, physiographic region, Population Dynamics, Population Studies