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Soil-vegetation correlations in selected wetlands and uplands of North-Central Florida

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Abstract

Vegetation on four hydric and two nonhydric soils series in north-central Florida was sampled as part of a national study examining the correspondence between wetland vegetation and soils. The wetland character of the vegetation was estimated by weighted average calculations using published wetland indicator values for individual plant species. The weighted averages produced an ordering of plant communities in general agreement with the hydric character of the soils. However, the two nonhydric soils has weighted average scores slightly below 3, normally considered the lowest end of the range of nonhydric vegetation. There was no clear or consistent effect of fire management on the weighted average scores. Vegetation strata (herbaceous, low shrub, tall shrub, and trees) were generally similar in weighted average values, with the wettest of the hydric soils tending to be low in all strata and the nonhydric soils tending to be high in all strata. However, strata differed considerably in the specific values for a single soil and in the specific rank ordering of soils in different strata.

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Best, G.R., Wolfe, C., Segal, D.S., 1990, Soil-vegetation correlations in selected wetlands and uplands of North-Central Florida, v, 48 p.

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype Other Report
Title Soil-vegetation correlations in selected wetlands and uplands of North-Central Florida
Year Published 1990
Language English
Publisher U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher location Washington, D.C.
Description v, 48 p.
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