Description: Indicates the presence and dominance of longleaf pine in the canopy. Note that even if longleaf pine is absent from the canopy, site can still be a confirmed longleaf pine ecosystem (LPE) if other components of a functioning LPE are present, such as turkey-oak/wiregrass, or longleaf regeneration.
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Description: Indicates the age structure of longleaf pine in the canopy and sub-canopy. Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Estimated basal area in square feet per acre of LLP for the entire stand rounded to the nearest ten. Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Estimated cover of LLP regeneration (seedlings and saplings <16 feet tall). Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percentage of the ground within the stand covered by the general extent of pine species other than LLP within the canopy (any stem greater than 16 feet tall) Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percentage of the ground within the stand covered by the general extent of hardwood species within the canopy Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percentage of the ground within the plot covered by the general extent of woody plants other than LLP from 10 feet tall to bottom of the canopy. Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percentage of the ground within the stand covered by the general extent of turkey oak, sand post oak, bluejack oak, blackjack oak, southern red oak, and dogwood within the midstory (any stem greater than 10 feet tall to the bottom of the canopy). Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percentage of the ground within the plot covered by the general extent of woody plants 3 – 10 feet tall. Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percentage of the ground within the plot covered by the general extent of woody plants <3 feet tall. Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percentage of the ground within the plot covered by woody plants <6 feet tall. Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percent cover of all native non-woody, soft-tissued plants regardless of height, including non-woody vines, legumes, and graminoids (grasses, sedges, rushes); does not include non-native pasture grasses. Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percent cover of native perennial graminoids that are maintained by periodic fire. Includes wiregrass (Aristida stricta), pineywoods dropseed (Sporobolus junceus), Florida dropseed (Sporobolus floridanus), Chapman's beaksedge (Rhynchospora chapmanii), cutover muhly (Muhlenbergia capillaris var. trichopodes), toothache grass (Ctenium aromaticum), little bluestem (Schizachyrum scoparium) and Florida toothache grass (Ctenium floridanum). Does not include switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) or Andropogon virginicus. Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percent cover of non-native grasses typically planted for forage; includes bahiagrass, centipede grass, carpet grass, digitgrass, bermudagrass, limpograss, etc. Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Indicates percent cover of invasive exotic plants within the stand; includes only FLEPPC Category I and II listed species. Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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Description: Describes the ecological condition relative to a natural system (natural vegetative plant community). Although sources may differ somewhat in definitions the following definitions typically apply:<br>
Excellent: Community species composition/abundance and structure are characteristic of conditions prevalent under historic fire regime.<br>
Good: Community species composition/abundance and structure are only partially characteristic of conditions previously prevalent under historic fire regime.<br>
Fair: Retains some components and/or structure characteristic under historic fire regime. Components of original pyrogenic groundcover are sparse or suppressed so as to be functionally irrelevant. <br>
Poor: May retain little of the original community species components and/or structural characteristics. Components of original pyrogenic groundcover are not evident. <br>
Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
Copyright Text: Florida Natural Areas Inventory and Florida Forest Service
Description: Describes the ecological condition relative to a natural system (natural vegetative plant community). Although sources may differ somewhat in definitions the following definitions typically apply:<br>
Excellent: Community species composition/abundance and structure are characteristic of conditions prevalent under historic fire regime.<br>
Good: Community species composition/abundance and structure are only partially characteristic of conditions previously prevalent under historic fire regime.<br>
Fair: Retains some components and/or structure characteristic under historic fire regime. Components of original pyrogenic groundcover are sparse or suppressed so as to be functionally irrelevant. <br>
Poor: May retain little of the original community species components and/or structural characteristics. Components of original pyrogenic groundcover are not evident. <br>
Field data were crosswalked to management classes for Maintain (M), Improve (I), or Restore (R).
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