Ecological Due Diligence
This USFWS project-planning tool generates a location-specific list of federally listed species and critical habitat.
What is Information for Planning and Consultation (IPaC)?
A plant assigned the indicator status OBL is classified as this.
What is an obligate wetland species?
This term names the upper shell of a tortoise.
What is the carapace?
ERP stands for this Florida permit program.
What is an Environmental Resource Permit?
DBH is conventionally measured this many feet above the ground.
What is 4.5 feet?
This USFWS mapper displays wetlands and deepwater habitats.
What is the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI)?
The plant indicator abbreviation FACW means this...
What is facultative wetland?
A typical gopher tortoise burrow entrance has this geometric shape.
What is a half-moon shape?ections?
SSL stands for this state-owned land category.
What are Sovereignty Submerged Lands?
This is the scientific name of live oak.
What is Quercus virginiana?
This Florida organization maintains the Biodiversity Matrix and element occurrence data.
What is the Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI)?
Say the five National Wetland Plant List indicator categories in order from wettest to driest.
What are OBL, FACW, FAC, FACU, and UPL?
This term names the underside of a tortoise's shell.
What is the plastron?
WOTUS stands for this federal jurisdictional term.
What are Waters of the United States?
This is the scientific name of saw palmetto.
What is Serenoa repens?
This land-cover classification system is abbreviated FLUCCS.
What is the Florida Land Use, Cover and Forms Classification System?
This hydrophytic vegetation calculation assigns numerical values to indicator statuses and produces a weighted average.
What is the Prevalence Index?
This fan-shaped mound of excavated soil lies outside a gopher tortoise burrow entrance.
What is the burrow apron?
NWP stands for this USACE general permit type.
What is a Nationwide Permit?
These are Florida's three true native mangrove species, by common name.
What are red mangrove, black mangrove, and white mangrove?
This USDA-NRCS web application provides mapped soil units and official soil descriptions.
What is Web Soil Survey?
This vegetation test is met when more than 50 percent of the dominant species are OBL, FACW, or FAC.
What is the Dominance Test?
These paired projections at the front of the plastron are generally more pronounced in adult males.
What are gular projections?
LOP stands for this abbreviated USACE authorization.
What is a Letter of Permission?
When is Conner Richardson's Birthday (Month and Day)?
August 6