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Restoring Fire to the Longleaf Pine Forest [PDF]
, 2009 At the time of European settlement, the longleaf pine ecosystem dominated the southeastern landscape. Lightning strikes and the use of fi re by Native Americans maintained this habitat as an open savanna with a grassy forest fl oor that supported a great
LeQuire, Elise
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Animal Conservation, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 379-392, August 2026.The gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), a keystone species and ecosystem engineer, has declined by ~80% over the past century due to primarily habitat loss. In a 28‐year resurvey of federally protected Mobile County and state‐protected Baldwin County, we found tortoise populations persisted at ~59% and ~31% of sites, respectively, with significant ...
Robin B. Lloyd Jr. +4 more
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Pinus palustris: Longleaf Pine
EDIS, 2018 This beautiful, native North American pine tree is capable of reaching 80 to 125 feet in height with a 30 to 40-foot-spread but is more often seen smaller.
Edward Gilman +5 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.This study tested physiological mechanisms of movement patterns in Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) by using autonomous GPS loggers. Total distance traveled, but not home range area, was physiologically limited. Females traveled the same distance as males, but had smaller home range areas, which challenges traditional understanding of sex‐based ...
Karin Ebey +2 more
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Longleaf Pine
, 2021 Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill [...
Kurt Johnsen
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Interaction Diversity Maintains Resiliency in a Frequently Disturbed Ecosystem
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Frequently disturbed ecosystems are characterized by resilience to ecological disturbances. Longleaf pine ecosystems are not only resilient to frequent fire disturbance, but this feature sustains biodiversity.
Jane E. Dell +8 more
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29: MANAGEMENT OF WILD TURKEY HABITAT IN SOUTHERN FOREST TYPES
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 1973 The 12 million acres of national forests in the South provide much of the remaining opportunity for the public to hunt wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo).
H. L. Holbrook
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Individuals’ Behaviors of Cone Production in Longleaf Pine Trees
, 2023 The sporadic cone production of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) challenges the restoration of the longleaf pine ecosystem. While much has been learned about longleaf pine cone production at the stand level, little information exists at the tree ...
Xiongwen Chen, John L. Willis
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