First Comprehensive Biodiversity Assessment of Green Glades Ranches West, Hendry County, Florida

IF 0.6 4区环境科学与生态学 Q4 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

Southeastern Naturalist Pub Date : 2023-09-08 DOI:10.1656/058.022.0309

Sean M. McHugh, Amanda Suzzi-Simmons, S. J. Sveiven

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Abstract - We surveyed the flora and fauna of Green Glades Ranches West, a private property located in Hendry County of south-central Florida, in August 2021 as part of a biodiversity field course in wildlife monitoring, ecological surveys, and data analysis. The objective was to establish baseline inventories on existing plants and wildlife including flora, herpetofauna, birds, invertebrates, and mammals for future monitoring of key wildlife species. Some of the general habitat types and vegetation zones that were surveyed included prairies, hardwood hammocks, pine flatwoods, cypress swamp forest, hardwood swamps, and depression marshes. This survey was the first attempt to formally inventory the biodiversity of Green Glades Ranches West, where we documented over 275 different species, including several that are either endangered, threatened, invasive, endemic, or previously unknown to occur in Hendry County. These results highlight the important role of private land holdings, especially those adjacent to statutory protected areas and strategic wildlife corridors, in achieving and supporting regional conservation initiatives and wildlife-management goals.

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佛罗里达州亨德利县Green Glades Ranches West首次生物多样性综合评估

摘要:作为野生动物监测、生态调查和数据分析的生物多样性野外课程的一部分，我们于2021年8月对位于佛罗里达州中南部亨德利县的私人地产Green Glades Ranches West的动植物群进行了调查。目的是建立现有植物和野生动物的基线清单，包括植物、爬行动物、鸟类、无脊椎动物和哺乳动物，以便将来对关键野生动物物种进行监测。调查的一般生境类型和植被带包括大草原、硬木吊床、松木平原林、柏树沼泽林、硬木沼泽和洼地沼泽。这次调查是对Green Glades Ranches West的生物多样性进行正式盘点的第一次尝试，在那里我们记录了超过275种不同的物种，其中包括几种濒危、受威胁、入侵、特有或以前在亨德利县未知的物种。这些结果突出了私人土地持有在实现和支持区域保护倡议和野生动物管理目标方面的重要作用，特别是那些毗邻法定保护区和战略野生动物走廊的土地。

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Southeastern Naturalist 环境科学-生态学

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1.20

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16.70%

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18-36 weeks

期刊介绍： The Southeastern Naturalist covers all aspects of the natural history sciences of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine organisms and the environments of the southeastern portion of North America, roughly bounded from North Carolina south to Florida, west to Texas, north to Oklahoma, and east back to North Carolina. Manuscripts based on field studies outside of this region that provide information on species within this region may be considered at the Editor’s discretion.