1. Natural Area Teaching Lab
Bret Pasch
NATL Graduate TA

2. 60-acre natural area on campus

3. 4 ecosystems located behind UF Cultural Plaza
Wetlands
Entomology
buildings

4. Upland Pine
Upland pine ecosystem restored (1995-date) As illustrated and described elsewhere, NATL's upland pine ecosystem was choked with laurel oaks in By 2004, after six prescribed burns and the cutting or killing of hundreds of the invading oaks, the ecosystem was once more hospitable to the germination of the seeds of longleaf pines and the growth of their seedlings.
15 acres
13 being restored since 1995
2 left unburned

5. Old Field Plots 6 acres 1, 2, 10, & 40 year rotations
Old-field succession must be periodically interrupted to prevent the succession from reaching its endpoint, i.e., a self-sustaining community (hammock or upland pine in this case). The succession area is subdivided into plots (see map) that will be cleared and cultivated at 1-, 10-, or 40-year intervals. Units with the same period of rotation will be cleared and cultivated out of phase. For example, every five years one of the two 10-year plots will be cultivated. The 1-year plot will be cultivated only during years that none of the other plots is cultivated. This schedule will produce five representative successional states at all times.
6 acres
1, 2, 10, & 40 year rotations

6. Hardwood hammock
21 acres
Ephemeral ponds

7. SEEP- Stormwater Ecological Enhancement Project
Retention basin re-contoured for SEEP (1998)
BEFORE

8. SEEP today
Boardwalk trail completed 2008

9. NATL west academic area
22 acres closed to public
guidelines available online
Student projects
Short & long–term
Research

10. NATL east
added in 2005
11 acres
ALL academic use only
Central marsh

11. NATL east walkway
Completed in March ‘09

12. Nature trails & kiosks Basic & advanced trail guides Available onsite
or online

13. 50-meter grid & photos
Grid-based photographic record of vegetation (1997, ) In January 1997, a photographic record was made of NATL by taking pictures to the north, east, south, and west at each grid intersection. This was repeated for NATL-west in 2007 and NATL-east in                                                                                                                                              
Looking north from C10
N-S-E-W grid photos
1997
2007

14. GIS maps & photos online
All pines mapped!
Aerial photos
Grid-based record of soils (2000) Dr. Mary E. Collins
LIDAR Elevation Contours

15. Species lists online Gryllus firmus
Surveys of biota (1995-date) Higher plants, vertebrates, and many groups of invertebrates that occur in NATL have been surveyed and the results posted.
Gryllus firmus

16. For more info, visit: http://natl.ifas.ufl.edu/ bpasch@ufl.edu
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