South Florida Rockland
Natalia Coelho and Melina Quiroscabrera
Introduction
Abiotic and Biotic Factors
Pine forests are in areas with permanent and fresh groundwater. Fire is a very important source for the pine forests. Some hammock trees such as gumbo limbo and mahogany also have to require openings from fire or other disturbances in order to regenerate. This area also has a ground filled up with limestone. It is usually 75 between 80 degrees almost everyday but the rainy days. This area also has fresh water underground and at the normal ground level.
Biotic Factors
There are bunches of animals and plants that surround this Pineland. All of these things help (in some way) the Pinelands. All of the animals live in their habitat while they are using the environment around them. All of the plants provide fresh air and food for the animals to eat. So all of these plants and animals have a purpose in their habitat which is the Pinelands.
Animals Such As:
- Lower keys Marsh Rabbit
- Big Cypress Fox Squirrel
- Silver Rice, Lower keys Cotton Rat
- Florida Black Bear
- Key Vaca, Key West Racoon
- Florida Panther
- Key Deer
- Northern Bobwhite quail
- Swallow-tailed Kite bird
- Bald Eagle
- Southeastern American Kestrel bird
- Mangrove Cuckoo
- Hairy, Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
- Gray Kingbird
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Black Whiskered Vireo
- Brown-headed Nuthatch
- Cuban Yellow Warbler
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Key Mud, Florida Box Turtle
- Gopher Tortoise
- Florida Keys Mole Skink
- Lower Keys Brown, Rim Rock Crowned, Eastern Indigo, Eastern Diamondback, Key Ringneck, Lower Keys Ribbon Snake
- Florida Tree snail
- Robinsons Anomala Scarab Beetle
- Atala, Miami Blue, Bartram's Hairstreak,Florida Leafwing butterfly
Looks
The Habitats!!
Where is it?
Water: Florida's Lifeblood
Food Web
Florida Panther
Eats: All of the other animals.
Also Endangered
Black Bears
Eats: Other nuts, berries, and sometimes takes meat away from other animals.
Deer
Eaten By: Bears and Large Snakes
Eats: Only Nuts, Berries, plants and sometimes twigs.
Big Birds
Eaten by: Raccoons,Squirrels and Owls when they are in their eggs. No predators when they grow older.
Eats: Fish, Ducks, Snakes, Turtles, Rats, Rabbits, Frogs, Baby Deer, Mice, Snails and small birds.
Snakes
Eaten By: Big Birds
Eats: Rats, Mice, Bugs, Small birds, Rabbits, Squirrels, Frogs, Eggs, Lizards and other snakes.
Squirrels
Eaten By: Panthers, Bear, Snakes and Big Birds.
Eats: Nuts, Berries, Seeds, Fruits and other vegetations.
Small Birds
Eaten By: Big Birds, Snakes, Bears and Panthers.
Eats: Nuts, Berries and fruits.
Rabbits
Eaten By: Panthers, Bears, Snakes and Big Birds
Eats: Nuts, Berries and fruits.
Rats
Eaten By: Panthers, Bears, Snakes and Big Birds
Eats: Nuts and Fruit
Butterflies
Eaten By: Night Time predators
Eats: Nectar from plants
Bugs and Snails
Eaten By: Big Birds and Plants.
Eats: Dead things and makes it own food.
Plants, Grass, Nuts, Berries and the Sun
Eaten By: Herbivores
Makes it own food doesn't need to eat other animals.(Besides the Venus Fly Trap it eats insects)
Human Impacts on the Florida Rocklands
The Humans use at least 53.96% of the Ecosystem and uses it for houses, stores and many other buildings. The part that is left of the Ecosystem is 56.06% and it might be gone by 2 decades. They could change their mind and create other property on the protected land or they just might break the law. The small neighborhood of animals is a small chance of most of them living.
Good Impact
There is a chance that some of the animals will survive for a long period of time. The animals at least have a home. The government knows that the animals are living there and it is protected. At least if a fire goes on in the habitat the trees actually need that so that isn't a problem at all (surprisingly).
Here is A Video On the South Florida Rocklands!!
Classification of The Florida Panther (ENDANGERED)
Kingdom: Animal,
Phylum: Chordate,
Class: Mammal,
Order: Carnivora,
Family: Felidae,
Genus: Puma,
Species: P. concolor
Websites
http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/extension/florida_forestry_information/forest_resources/pinelands.html
http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/156134/
http://www.deeringestate.com/uploads/Pine%20Rockland%20Lesson%20Plan.pdf
http://www.savethepinerocklands.org/index.html
http://www.fws.gov/southeastfire/documents/msrp_pinerocklands.pdf
http://www.nps.gov/ever/learn/kidsyouth/pine-rocklands.htm
http://www.whatdobearseat.info/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Florida_rocklands
https://soils.ifas.ufl.edu/docs/pdf/academic/papers/Lindemann-Ronald-D.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_panther
Also
Google images