KUCHLER TYPE
KUCHLER TYPE: Subtropical Pine Forest



KUCHLER-TYPE-NUMBER : 
K116

PHYSIOGNOMY : 
Medium tall open forest of needleleaf and broadleaf evergreen trees and
shrubs [46].


OCCURRENCE : 
Subtropical pine forest is found only in three areas of southern Florida:
the eight lower Florida Keys proximate to Big Pine Key, but not on other
lower or any upper keys; the Miami Rock Ridge which extends into
Everglades National Park; and a limestone ridge at Pinecrest in Big
Cypress National Preserve [11,46].  The Miami Rock Ridge was formerly a
continuous stand of south Florida slash pine spotted with tropical
hardwood hammocks [6].  Of this original forest, only 4 percent outside
the Everglades, remained unlogged or undeveloped in 1975 [31].  A 1975
inventory identified 268 isolated stands of 5 acres (2.1 ha) or more
outside Everglades National Park totalling 5,266 acres (2,132 ha); by
1978 there had been a 25 percent reduction in that total area [24].
Approximately 19,760 acres (8,000 ha) of subtropical pine forest remain
on Long Pine Key, an upland area of limestone outcrop within Everglades
National Park [8,24].


COMPILED BY AND DATE : 
Janet Sullivan, December 1994


LAST REVISED BY AND DATE : 
NO-ENTRY


AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION : 
Sullivan, Janet. 1994. Subtropical pine forest. In: Remainder of Citation


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