1. How the climate has shaped the region…and how the region has shaped the climate
2. Temperature and rainfall
3. Extremes
4. Tropical storms and hurricanes
5. Climate change
C. Water
1. Fresh water, brackish water, salt water
2. Karst: "windows into the truth"
3. Aquifers
IV. Biology: Animals, Plants, & Habitats
A. History of Exploration by Naturalists
B. Animals and Plants - (Page includes a clickable map of the 7 counties with link to FNAI's tracking list)
1. Rare, threatened, and endangered
2. Invasive Exotics
3. Human use
-Hunting and fishing
--Recreational
--Commercial
-Wildlife watching
-Scientific research and collecting
-Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
C. Natural Communities / Habitats
1. Introduction
2. Coastal
-West of Ochlockonee Bay: beaches / coastal strand
-East of Ochlockonee Bay: salt marshes / tide flats
3. Dry uplands: Sandhills and scrub
4. Upland mesic (moderately moist) forests
-Hardwood and mixed pine-hardwood forests
-Pinelands (flatwoods and plantations)
5. Freshwater marshes (wetlands without trees)
6. Forested wetlands
7. Fresh water: standing and running
8. Estuaries
D. Natural Communities Management
1. Why Not Leave it Alone?
2. Management Goals
-Multiple Use
-Forest Products
-Wildlife
-Water Quality
-Recreation
-Restoration
3. Management Tools
-Fire
-Hydrology
-Planting/Restoration
-Habitat Enhancement
-Wildlife and roads
-Education
-Biological Survey
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Florida Natural Areas Inventory
1018 Thomasville Road
Suite 200-C
Tallahassee, Florida 32303
Phone: (850) 224-8207
E-mail: fprice@fnai.fsu.edu
Note: The content of the website has not been updated since 2005. The site remains online for it's value as legacy content and is unlikely to be updated.