US Army Corps
of Engineers
Construction Engineering
Research Laboratories USACERL Technical Report 99/19

December 1998

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Management of Florida Scrub for Threatened and Endangered Species

Bruce A. MacAllister and Mary G. Harper

Florida Scrub on military installations supports a number of land uses including the Department of Defense (DoD) training and testing mission and threatened, endangered, and sensitive species (TES) conservation. This report documents strategies to manage TES and their habitat on a plant community basis, using methods that apply to multiple species occurring in scrub within the state of Florida.

This report provides ecological descriptions of the community, along with available information about community occurrence on DoD installations in Florida. Known occurrences of plant and animal TES are also included. Known and potential impacts to the integrity of the community as TES habitat and to associated species are reported. Impacts are related to habitat fragmentation, and changes in community composition, structure and function due altered fire regime, hydrologic patterns, groundcover integrity or the invasion of exotic species. Management recommendations are made within as ecosystem based, adaptive management context.

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