Catalogue of Seed Plants of the West Indies

Acevedo‐Rodríguez, Pedro; Strong, Mark T.

doi:10.5479/si.0081024x.98.1

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“…A coordinated monitoring program between EVER, the National Key Deer Refuge and the Florida Park Service could shed light on the long-term prognosis for this species in South Florida and inform management decisions. elsewhere in the Antilles (Correll and Correll 1982, Acevedo-Rodríguez and Strong 2012, TROPICOS 2014. In South Florida it grows in the pine rocklands of Long Pine Key, but in the West Indies it is native to pinelands and hardwood forests on both limestone and serpentine soils.…”

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Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of Mahogany Hammock, Everglades National Park, Florida

Zona

Sadle²

2017

Evansia

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were coauthors both on IRC's book Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann et al. 2002) and Floristic Inventory of South Florida Database Online (Gann et al. 2001(Gann et al. -2014, without which this project would not have been possible.Bruce Hansen at the University of South Florida readily supplied herbarium label data and helped resolve confusing historical and taxonomic problems. Alan Franck, also at USF, and Mark Strong at the Smithsonian Institution, also provided herbarium label data, scans of images and other taxonomic assistance. The FNPS herbarium database online, which is managed by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and the National Park Service, was indispensable to the project. Brett Jestrow at Fairchild provided label data and a review of specimens at FTG, and Fairchild interns Kristen Finch and Brittany Harris helped with rare plant ranking using the new NatureServe methodology, literature searches, and other tasks. Special thanks to Anne Frances and Amanda Treher of NatureServe and Amy Jenkins of FNAI for helping to normalize and update global, national and state ranks of rare plants. Jennifer Possley of Fairchild was of particular help working through some of the fern accounts. Celio Moya assisted with obtaining updated rare plant data from Cuba.

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Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of Mahogany Hammock, Everglades National Park, Florida

Zona

Sadle²

2017

Evansia

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“…La lista florística se realizó a partir de la identificación in situ, la comparación de los materiales recolectados con ejemplares procedentes del herbario HAJB y la consulta de la literatura (León 1946; León & Alain 1951;Alain 1953Alain , 1957Alain , 1964Zona 1990;Rodríguez 2000y Catasús 2002). Los nombres de las especies se actualizaron según Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong (2012). Los datos de abundancia se obtuvieron por especies; en el caso de las gramíneas y ciperáceas cada clon fue considerado como un individuo.…”

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Diversidad de grupos funcionales en la vegetación de la costa arenosa de los cayos Grande, Anclitas y Caguamas (archipiélago de los Jardines de la Reina, Cuba

Rodríguez

González-Torres

2015

Bot. Complut.

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INTRODUCCIÓNEn las costas arenosas se establecen plantas con características particulares, que tienen que afrontar un ambiente extremo durante su desarrollo (Águila et al. 1995). Las condiciones edáficas y la proximidad al mar, hacen que solo un número limitado de especies vegetales sean capaces de vivir en estas condiciones ambientales. Esto hace que la flora de las costas arenosas sea relativamente uniforme y diferente respecto a otros ecosistemas terrestres. Esencialmente la vegetación de costa arenosa, está constituida por especies psammófilas, xerófilas, halófi-las y oligótrofas, resistentes al viento y a la movilidad del substrato (García-AIbá & Morey 1981). Según Hesp (1991), las plantas que crecen en los ecosistemas dunares han desarrollado adaptaciones para tolerar altos contenidos de sal. Algunos autores, han realizado experimentos con la finalidad de conocer la resistencia de las especies vegetales a las elevadas concentraciones de sal, lo cual constituye una herramienta importante para futuros planes de restauración ecológica (Tiku & Snaydon 1971, Woodel 1985, Blits & Gallagher 1991, Martínez et al. 1992.Debido a la naturaleza arenosa que presenta el substrato en las dunas costeras, existe una baja retención de agua (Martínez et al. 1992 Las costas arenosas son ambientes extremos donde la vegetación desarrolla adaptaciones morfológicas y fisiológicas para su supervivencia. Con la finalidad de cuantificar y relacionar la diversidad funcional con factores abióticos, se tomaron datos de riqueza y abundancia en la vegetación de costa arenosa de los cayos Grande, Anclitas y Caguamas. La flora se caracteriza por poseer un predominio de plantas caméfitas y hemicriptófitas, con hojas nanófilas y síndromes de dispersión de anemocoria y zoocoria. No obstante, la riqueza de los grupos funcionales varía entre los cayos estudiados. La diversidad funcional es semejante entre las estaciones lluvia y seca, y su variación espacial depende de la interacción del conjunto de factores abióticos medidos.Palabras clave: archipiélago, cayos, diversidad, grupos funcionales, vegetación. Sandy shores are known to be extreme ecosystems where the vegetation has evolved many morphological and physiological adaptations for its survival. With the aim of identify possible relationships between the vegetation´s functional diversity with abiotic factors and its corresponding quantification, we collected data on the abundance and richness of the sandy coast vegetation complex in Grande, Anclitas and Caguamas keys. Its flora is largely characterized by the dominance of hemicryptophytes and chamaephytes plants with nanophyllous leaves and displaying dispersal syndromes such as zoochory and anemochory. However, the functional groups´ richness, in the present study, varies from one key to another. Functional diversity is similar between the wet and dry seasons, and its spatial variation is influenced by the interplay of the set of abiotic factors herein studied.

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“…Photos and 88 voucher specimens were collected to confirm identifications, working in collaboration with Miami University's Turrell Herbarium (MU). Identification, nomenclature, and plant origins followed Plants of the Eastern Caribbean, an online database that is maintained by the University of the West Indies in Barbados, Acevedo-Rodriguiz and Strong's [58] "Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies", Rojer's [32] floristic inventory of St. Eustatius, and a report by van der Burg [59] on naturalized and invasive plants in the Dutch Caribbean.…”

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Home Gardenscapes as Sustainable Landscape Management on St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean

Berkowitz

Medley

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:Home gardens are an important topic for landscape research due to their intersectional contributions to plant diversity conservation and local livelihoods. As sites of ecological restoration, gardens transform small-scale landscapes toward higher plant richness and density. We examine "gardenscapes" on St. Eustatius, a small Caribbean island, focusing on how plants growing around a home contribute to ecological and ethnobotanical measures of plant diversity, and how residents value the importance of gardens to their livelihoods. Through a survey of 14 gardenscapes and 11 home interviews, we report 277 plant species, including 31% native and 69% non-native, high plant densities and structural evenness, 260 plants with uses, and a total of 363 uses, especially as ornamental plants (184) and for other environmental services (16), but also food (101), health remedies (50), material uses (10) and symbolic services (2). Participants indicated that home gardening could be difficult due to drought and pests, but provided resources and incomes to livelihoods, especially through the production of food products. Several respondents reported that gardening was a declining activity on St. Eustatius, but this study shows how gardening activities offer a biocultural approach to conservation that supports plant diversity and livelihoods across the island's highly-modified natural landscape.

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Catalogue of Seed Plants of the West Indies

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Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of Mahogany Hammock, Everglades National Park, Florida

Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of Mahogany Hammock, Everglades National Park, Florida

Diversidad de grupos funcionales en la vegetación de la costa arenosa de los cayos Grande, Anclitas y Caguamas (archipiélago de los Jardines de la Reina, Cuba

Home Gardenscapes as Sustainable Landscape Management on St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean

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