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'''<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coastal Plain Plants provides current knowledge about the ecology and life history of plant species in the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain. Content is provided and updated by expert contributors in the region.</span>'''
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'''<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coastal Plain Plants provides current knowledge about the ecology and life history of plant species in the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain with an emphasis on the Greater Red Hills Region of northern Florida and southern Georgia. Content is provided and updated by expert contributors in the region.</span>'''
  
  
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==Background==
 
==Background==
  
'''Coastal Plain Plants''' seeks to compliment existing plant databases by providing a forum for sharing information that is not limited to published literature. While peer-reviewed books and articles compose an important body of information, a greater wealth of knowledge is carried by the numerous experts and enthusiasts who observe, record, study, and photograph plants and their associated pollinators, herbivores, pathogens, and competitors in the field. In addition to plant ecologists, contributors might include entomologists, plant pathologists, horticulturalists, wildlife biologists, soil scientists, herbalists, and others with knowledge of specific plant life history characteristics.   
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'''Coastal Plain Plants''' seeks to compliment existing plant databases by providing a forum for sharing information that is not limited to published literature. A great wealth of knowledge is carried by the numerous experts and enthusiasts who observe, photograph, record, and study the relationship between plants and their environments, including specific habitat, germination requirements, seed dispersal, pollinators, herbivores, responses to fire, competitive interactions, and other life history characteristics. Contributors include plant ecologists, entomologists, plant pathologists, horticulturalists, wildlife biologists, soil scientists, herbalists, and other plant enthusiasts with knowledge of plants in the region.   
  
For almost half of the plant species in the region, there is little to no information published about their life history characteristics beyond basic physical descriptions. '''Coastal Plain Plants''' promises to provide a new source of knowledge and strong starting point for more systematic study of specific plant species in the region.  
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The emphasis of the website is on the portion of the Coastal Plain centered on the Red Hills Region of northern Florida and southwestern Georgia and including the surrounding area, roughly east of the Apalachicola and Flint rivers and west of the Suwanee River, and from the Gulf Coast to Albany, Georgia. This area is geographically and biologically diverse, including "clayhill", sandhill, and flatwoods pine communities, upland and ravine hardwood forests, basin swamps, alluvial hardwood forests, marshes, coastal scrub, limestone glades, and other natural communities.  A large portion of plant species in the Coastal Plain are represented in this area.  Species include those which range from locally endemic to have wide North American distributions.
  
The initial list of plants for which pages have been created contain mostly native upland pine-grassland plants with little previously published information, and the next areas of emphasis will be flatwoods, scrub, and other community types maintained by fire. Contributors are welcome to add species pages as described in the [[Guidelines|Guidelines to Contributors]]. Consider becoming an expert contributor and help add to the knowledge of plants in the region.       
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Consider becoming an expert contributor and help add to the knowledge of plants in the region.       
 
        
 
        
 
==Supporting Organizations==
 
==Supporting Organizations==

Revision as of 19:33, 22 January 2016

Coastal Plain Plants provides current knowledge about the ecology and life history of plant species in the southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain with an emphasis on the Greater Red Hills Region of northern Florida and southern Georgia. Content is provided and updated by expert contributors in the region.


Background

Coastal Plain Plants seeks to compliment existing plant databases by providing a forum for sharing information that is not limited to published literature. A great wealth of knowledge is carried by the numerous experts and enthusiasts who observe, photograph, record, and study the relationship between plants and their environments, including specific habitat, germination requirements, seed dispersal, pollinators, herbivores, responses to fire, competitive interactions, and other life history characteristics. Contributors include plant ecologists, entomologists, plant pathologists, horticulturalists, wildlife biologists, soil scientists, herbalists, and other plant enthusiasts with knowledge of plants in the region.

The emphasis of the website is on the portion of the Coastal Plain centered on the Red Hills Region of northern Florida and southwestern Georgia and including the surrounding area, roughly east of the Apalachicola and Flint rivers and west of the Suwanee River, and from the Gulf Coast to Albany, Georgia. This area is geographically and biologically diverse, including "clayhill", sandhill, and flatwoods pine communities, upland and ravine hardwood forests, basin swamps, alluvial hardwood forests, marshes, coastal scrub, limestone glades, and other natural communities. A large portion of plant species in the Coastal Plain are represented in this area. Species include those which range from locally endemic to have wide North American distributions.

Consider becoming an expert contributor and help add to the knowledge of plants in the region.

Supporting Organizations