upland mixed woodland by: gene galke. mockernut hickorylaurel oak
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Upland Mixed WoodlandBy: Gene Galke
Mockernut HickoryLaurel Oak
It’s going down, I’m yelling timber…
Description
Overall Feeling
Soil structure
Layer breakdown
Rare species
Natural processes
Current status
Managing practices
Variations
Identifying imposters
Synonyms
The rundown
Category: High Pine & Scrub
Recently recognized
Soil Structure: Loamy soils
Upland hardwood forest ---- ---- Upland pine
I got a feelin’, you’re feelin’ it too…
San Felasco Hamock Preserve State Park
Itchetucknee Springs State Park
Slightly drier than upland hardwood forest
Characteristic species
Home, home on the range
In FL, Jackson to Marion counties, SE Georgia
More clay
Largely cultivated
Fragmented
Sandhill or upland pine & hardwood forest
Dirt class, once again…Horizon: Bt•12-48” •Strong brown clay, common yellowish brown, prominent red mottles•35-60% clay•Blocky structure•Firm•Sticky and plastic•Few fine & medium roots•Strongly acid
Just like that Georgia clay…
Loamy sands
Fine sandy loam
Nutrients
Examples
Raising the Roof
Southern red oak
Mockernut hickory
Post oak
Blackjack oak
Black oak
Shortleaf/ Longleaf pines
Possibly: Pignut hickory White oak
In the middle of the ride…
Subcanopy:
Shrubs or small trees Flowering dogwood Sparkleberry Rusty blackhaw Sassafras Hawthorns
Sparkleberry
Drop it down to the floor
Grasses
Forbs
Coppicing hardwoods
Ground layer species
New Jersey tea
Eastern poison ivy
Eastern poison oak
Little bluestem
Slender bluestem
Legumes
Yellow indiangrass
Silver plumegrass
Variable witchgrass
Dogtongue wild buckwheat
Oblongleaf twinflower
Rare species
Herbaceous Flyr’s brickell-bush Florida spiny-pod Gentian pinkroot Bluffs blazing star
Animals Sherman’s fox squirrel Invertebrates
Mycotrupes cartwright
Rare butterfly Autochton cellus WHY THERE?
Natural processes
Current research in FL
Extinguishing characteristic
Burn regiment Tall Timbers Research Under consideration
Status
Global Conservation Status Ranks
Global 2/Subnational 2
Imperiled
Workin’ all week for a backache
Longer burn intervals than neighbors
Fire resistance
Mechanical removals Laurel oak Sweetgum Water oak
What makes this habitat the way it is?
Variation
Shortleaf pine
Longleaf pine in Alachua & Marion counties
Identifying imposters
Distinguishing UMW from sandhill and upland pine Absence/low cover & co-dominance
Distinguishing UMW from upland hardwood forest Absence/near absence, presence, ground
diversity
By any other name…
Southern red oak forest
Red oak woods
Hardwood-pine woodlands
Shortleaf pine-oak-hickory
Upland pine
83-broadleaf deciduous-needleleaf evergreen upland forest