1- https://doi.org/10.2179/0008-7475.89.1.1
Assessment of Macrolichen Diversity at Ordway-Swisher Biological Station in Northern Florida Contributes to the Scientific Mission of NEON
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The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is gathering select ecological and taxonomic data across 81 sites in the United States and Puerto Rico. Lichens are one of the organismal groups that NEON has not yet assessed across these sites. Here we sampled lichens at Ordway-Swisher Biological Station (OSBS), a NEON site in north central Florida, to provide a baseline survey of the commonly encountered macrolichens (foliose, fruticose, and squamulose lichens). Macrolichens represent a subset of observable lichens and are more commonly surveyed than crustose lichens. Seventy-four species of macrolichens were collected, including 25 occurrences that constitute new records for Putnam County, Florida. The lichen diversity at OSBS comprised approximately 30% of the macrolichen diversity known from the entire state of Florida. Fifty-four taxa are common in the state of Florida, 12 infrequent across the state, and eight are considered rare. Macrolichens were the seventh most species-rich taxonomic groups at OSBS and more diverse than the NEON focal groups of mammals and fish. Lastly, we suggest a theoretical roadmap for how lichenologists could work together with NEON to include lichens in future datasets. We hope that biologists focused on other key organismal groups will sample in NEON sites so that NEON data can be leveraged appropriately in future cross-taxon studies of biodiversity at the continental scale.
- Research Article
- 10.1093/aesa/25.3.502
- Sep 1, 1932
- Annals of the Entomological Society of America
During the fall and early winter of 1931 my attention was attracted by the occurrence of great masses of spider-webs along the west shore of a lake situated about six miles east of Gainesville in Alachua County, Florida. This lake, the site of the biological station of the University of Florida, was formerly called Pithlachocco but now bears the more prosaic name of Newnans Lake. It is six or seven miles in length, and shallow throughout. Its level fluctuates considerably even in normal years, and the prolonged drought which occurred in the.fall of 1931 caused it to lower more than the usual amount, exposing a breadth of sandy and mucky beach beyond the fringe of cypresses which borders the shores and ordinarily extends into the water's edge.
- Research Article
- 10
- 10.1653/024.097.0117
- Mar 1, 2014
- Florida Entomologist
The Old World ant cricket Myrmecophilus americanus Saussure (Orthoptera, Myrmecophilidae) inhabits nests of the Old World tramp ant Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Paratrechina longicornis has spread worldwide through human commerce, whereas M. americanus has been reported from sites in Asia, Oceania, South America, the West Indies, and the Mediterranean region. Here, we report the first North American records of M. americanus, all from peninsular Florida and the Florida Keys. In addition to older unpublished records of M. americanus from Archbold Biological Station (N 27.2°) and Gainesville (N 29.7°), we collected M. americanus from 5 of 13 P. longicornis nests surveyed in southernmost Florida (N 24.5–26.0°), but only from 1 of 20 P. longicornis nests surveyed further north (N 26.5–27.3°) in Florida. Although P. longicornis is common throughout most of Florida south of N 30°, its symbiont M. americanus appears to be common only in southernmost Florida. If climate limits populations of M. americanus in northern Florida, then it is likely that the higher latitude records reported as M. americanus from subtropical semi-arid Mediterranean sites (Egypt, Libya, and Israel; N 30–32°) are actually misidentifications of one or more distinct species, possibly Myrmecophilus cottami Chopard and/or Myrmecophilus surcoufi Chopard.
