Scrub and High Pine
Shaun and Maribel
Introduction
Biotic Factors
VEGETATION: Scrub—shrubby evergreen oaks and/or Florida rosemary; may have a sand pine or slash pine overstory; contains 13 federally listed endangered or threatened plant species. High pine—longleaf pine interspersed with deciduous oaks, especially turkey oak, with an herbaceous layer usually dominated by wiregrass.
FAUNA: Scrub—several thousand species of arthropods; threatened Florida scrub jay, Florida scrub lizard, threatened sand and blue-tailed mole skinks, gopher tortoise, threatened Florida black bear, white-tailed deer, bobcat, gray fox, spotted skunk, raccoon. High-pine—many broadly distributed vertebrates; endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, bobwhite quail, Sherman's fox squirrel, gopher tortoise.
American Kestrel: Falco sparverius
Bracken Fern: Family Dennstaedtiaceae
Brown-headed nuthatch: Sitta pusilla
Clasping Warea: Warea amplexifolia
Coachwhip: Masticophis flagellum
Common Ground-dove: Columbina passerina
Eastern Bluebird: Sialia sialis
Eastern indigo snake: Drymarchon corais couperi
Eastern Spadefoot toad: Scaphiopus holbrookii
Eastern towhee: Pipilo erythrophthalmus
Florida Goldenaster: Chrysopsis floridana
Florida pine snake: Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus
Florida Scrub Jay: Aphelocoma coerulescens
Florida Ziziphus: Ziziphus celata
Gopher tortoise: Gopherus polyphemus
Lewton's Milkwort: Polygala lewtonii
Longleaf Pine: Pinus palustris
Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Picoides borealis
Scarab beetle: Order Coleoptera
Scrub lupine: Lupinus aridorum
Abiotic
PROCESSES / DYNAMICS / ABIOTIC FACTORS: Scrub—dependent on infrequent, high-intensity fires. High pine—dependent on frequent, low-intensity fires.