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Long term recovery of experimental off-road vehicle impacts and abandoned old trails in the Big Cypress National Preserve.

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Date Issued:
1986
Summary:
The study evaluated the impact of off-road vehicles used in the Big Cypress National Preserve on the preserve's major habitat types. The authors subsequently measured one annual cycle of recovery in these experimentally created lanes. They also measured one annual cycle of recovery in old trails, many of which had not been originally created by off-road vehicles but had been heavily used by them for many years. The current study details recovery seven years after the experimental lanes had been created or the old trails abandoned. Parameters evaluated included visual, soil, and vegetation characteristics. After seven years recovery, few of the one pass and medium impact experimental lanes were still significantly different from adjacent controls. However, very few of the heavy impact lanes had recovered.
Title: Long term recovery of experimental off-road vehicle impacts and abandoned old trails in the Big Cypress National Preserve.
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Name(s): Duever, Michael J.
McCollom, Jean M. (Jean Margaret)
Riopelle, Lawrence A.
National Audubon Society Ecosystem Research Unit.
South Florida Research Center
PALMM (Project)
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Technical Report.
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1986
Publisher: National Park Service, Everglades National Park, South Florida Research Center
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 47 pages, illustration,28 cm.
Language(s): English
Summary: The study evaluated the impact of off-road vehicles used in the Big Cypress National Preserve on the preserve's major habitat types. The authors subsequently measured one annual cycle of recovery in these experimentally created lanes. They also measured one annual cycle of recovery in old trails, many of which had not been originally created by off-road vehicles but had been heavily used by them for many years. The current study details recovery seven years after the experimental lanes had been created or the old trails abandoned. Parameters evaluated included visual, soil, and vegetation characteristics. After seven years recovery, few of the one pass and medium impact experimental lanes were still significantly different from adjacent controls. However, very few of the heavy impact lanes had recovered.
Identifier: 55942957 (oclc), FI91198609 (IID), 1055812 (digitool), PB88-119797/XAB NTIS Accession Number (stock number), fiu:29489 (fedora), AAA6913QF
Note(s): Michael J. Duever, Lawrence A. Riopelle, and Jean M. McCollom.
"December 1986."
"Ecosystem Research Unit, National Audubon Society."
Bibliography: p. 47.
Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2004. (Everglades online collection) Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically reproduced by Florida International University from a technical report held in the Green Library at Florida International University, Miami.
National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior Contract no. CX5280-5-2106
Subject(s): Ecology -- Florida -- Big Cypress National Preserve
Marsh ecology -- Florida -- Big Cypress National Preserve
All terrain vehicles -- Environmental aspects -- Florida -- Big Cypress National Preserve
Big Cypress Swamp -- 3090204
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI91198609.pdf
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI91198609.jpg
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Host Institution: FIU
Has Part:
(OCoLC)17020546
Is Part of Series: Report (South Florida Research Center) ; SFRC-86/09.
Is Part of Series: Everglades online collection.