Everglades National Park, Fire Ecology Annual Report: Calendar Year 2010
Author unknown. Everglades National Park, Fire Ecology Annual Report: Calendar Year 2010
A summary of fire ecology activities and program information for the Park/network including fire effects plot workload, staffing, management objectives and monitoring results, and planning, fire monitoring, communications, and research. Also included are staff accomplishments/areas of focus, future program direction and other optional information (e.g. data analysis graphics or presentations, annual highlights, publications, program challenges, unique solutions to problems, collaboration, photographs of monitoring/fire activities, and suggestions on FFI). The Everglades fire effects monitoring crew continued to read FMH plots and refine methodologies in both Everglades National Park and Cape Canaveral National Seashore. Fire effects monitor Lyndi Kirkman came on in early January and the fire effects crew was fully staffed for nearly the entire year. In 2010 monitoring efforts were started to investigate the effects of fire on two exotic plant species in Everglades National Park. The crew implemented Lygodium microphyllum monitoring in Coastal Prairie FMH plots and installed plots in the East Everglades Expansion area to monitor the effects of fuel reduction and prescribed fire treatements on Melaluca quinquenervia. Additional plots were installed in Canaveral National Seashore scrub jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens coerulescens) habitat and in the Pine Rocklands, monitoring of imperiled butterfly host plants continued.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Author unknown
- Units
- CANA , EVER , FIEC
- Keywords
- FFI, Fire Effects, Fuels, Monitoring
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Fire and Fuel Dynamics | Fire and Fuel Dynamics