Florida Natural Areas Inventory 20100701 Version 1 vector digital data Tallahassee, FL Florida Natural Areas Inventory State of Florida http://www.fnai.org/LandCover.cfm The Cooperative Land Cover Map is a project to develop an improved statewide land cover map from existing sources and expert review of aerial photography. The project is directly tied to a goal of the Florida Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (Strategy) to represent Florida's diverse habitats in a spatially-explicit manner. We collected land cover and vegetation data from 37 existing sources including many site-specific natural community maps. Each dataset was evaluated for consistency and quality and assigned a confidence category that determined how it was integrated into the final land cover map. We revised data for eight focal communities (scrub, scrubby flatwoods, sandhill, dry prairie, pine rockland, rockland hammock, mesic flatwoods, upland pine) by inspecting areas that potentially include these communities with high-resolution aerial photography. All data were crosswalked into the Florida Land Cover Classification System. This dataset represents the Focal Communities that were revised for the Cooperative Land Cover Map. This project was funded by a grant from FWC/Florida's Wildlife Legacy Initiative (Project 08009) to Florida Natural Areas Inventory. The purpose of the Cooperative Land Cover Map is to fill a priority data gap of the Strategy for improved habitat mapping. In addition it provides significantly improved data for scrub and sandhill, priority habitats of the Strategy. The map will inform a variety of conservation and management activities in Florida. Data sources that contribute to the Cooperative Land Cover Map are described in the following report: Florida Natural Areas Inventory, 2010. Development of a Cooperative Land Cover Map: Final Report (available from FNAI upon request). A supplementary feature class that identifies individual data sources that contribute to the map is available from FNAI upon request (Data_Sources_CLC_v1_1). Detailed methods for revising focal communities are described in the following report: Florida Natural Areas Inventory, 2010. Development of a Cooperative Land Cover Map: Final Report (available from FNAI upon request). 19970101 20100101 publication date Complete As needed -87.573798 -79.889972 31.037585 24.488798 None Florida Land Cover and Forms Classification System land cover habitat vegetation Florida Land Cover Classification System natural community None Florida Available without restriction Data are intended to be used for general informational and planning purposes and not appropriate for legal, regulatory and/or cadastral purposes Florida Natural Areas Inventory Amy Knight GIS Program Specialist mailing and physical

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Tallahassee FL 32303 US 850-224-8207 x214 aknight@fnai.org Data compiled from multiple sources by Florida Natural Areas Inventory with funding support from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595 Classification accuracy varies among data sources that contribute to the map. Metadata related to accuracy were not available for all sources. Some data sources were field verified. Most data were created through interpretation of aerial photography and other ancillary information. Logically consistent. All attribute values fall within defined values Visually inspected for completeness. Horizontal accuracy is not better than the source imagery upon which individual source datasets were developed. Most source imagery is from two primary sources: 1) Florida's Ortho program imagery at 1 foot resolution; that meets or exceeds a verified horizontal accuracy of 7.6 feet at the 95% confidence interval (4.4 feet RMSE) as specified in the FGDC Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 3: National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy (NSSDA). 2) USGS's 3.75 minute Digital Ortho Quarter Quad (DOQQ) program imagery which meets National Map Accuracy Standards for products developed at 1:12K scale which specifies that over "90% of well defined points tested must fall within 33 feet" of ground condition and National Aerial Photography Program Standards. None Florida Natural Areas Inventory None 19930101 ground condition Natural Communities of Camp Blanding Military Reservation Spatial and Attribute Information Florida Natural Areas Inventory 20000101 None Tate's Hell Historic Vegetation Spatial and Attribute Information Nokuse Plantation Data provided by Matt Aresco, Nokuse Plantation Note: Only scrub and sandhill polygons were provided; comprehensive land cover was not complete at time of Cooperative Land Cover Map publication. None 20090101 ground condition Nokuse Plantation Land Cover Archbold Biological Station Fitzpatrick, J. W., B. Pranty, and B. Stith. 1994. Florida scrub-jay statewide map, 1992-1993. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Report, Cooperative Agreement no. 14-16-0004-91-950. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C., USA. None 19920101 19930101 Unknown Statewide Scrub-Jay Habitat Charlotte County Data provided by Bryon Catlin, Charlotte Co None unknown ground condition Charlotte County Parks Vegetation Data Palm Beach County, Environmental Resource Management Data provided by Matt King, PBC None 20030101 20070101 Unknown Palm Beach County Natural Areas Land cover Lake County Data provided by Lauren Brothers, Lake County None 20090101 Unknown Lake County Scrub-Jay Habitat Survey Spatial and Attribute Information Earth Balance and Steve Sauers Environmental Management Clark, J. and S. Sauers. 2008. Sarasota County Native Habitat Mapping and Risk Assessment. Sarasota County Natural Resources, Sarasota, Florida, USA. Data provided by Sarasota County None 20070101 ground condition Sarasota County Apoxsee Habitat Layer Spatial and Attribute Information FWC/Florida Wildlife Research Institute 19910101 None 19910101 ground condition Florida Keys Advanced Identification of Wetlands Land Cover Spatial and Attribute Information Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission 20030101 None 20030101 Unknown Florida Vegetation and Land Cover Spatial and Attribute Information U. S. Forest Service Data provided by Jason Drake, USFS None unknown 20100101 Unknown Ocala National Forest Stands Map Florida Natural Areas Inventory None 20040101 20100101 ground condition Historical Natural Community Mapping Projects Florida Park Service 20090101 Data provided by Brady Harrison, FPS None 19970101 20090101 ground condition Florida Park Service Natural Community Maps University of Georgia; South Florida Natural Resources Center of Everglades National Park 19990101 None 19990101 ground condition Everglades Vegetation The Nature Conservancy Data provided by Kathy Freeman, TNC and David Printiss, TNC None 19990101 20070101 ground condition Nature Conservancy Preserves Vegetation Maps Florida Natural Areas Inventory None 20010101 20100101 ground condition Florida Forever Projects Field Assessment Maps Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University Project Name: Prediction of Pine Forest Changes in the Florida Keys Due to Sea Level Rise Principal Investigators: Keqi Zhang and Michael Ross Data provided by Danielle Ogurcak, FIU None 20090101 ground condition Big Pine Key Land Cover Florida Natural Areas Inventory None 20100101 ground condition Flint Rock Natural Community Map St. Johns River Water Management District Data provided by J. B. Miller, SJRWMD None 20040101 20090101 Unknown St. Johns River Water Management District Natural Community Maps Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) None 20030101 20100101 ground condition FNAI Natural Community Mapping Projects on Schaub, Dynamac Corp. at KSC None 20030101 ground condition Kennedy Space Center Land Cover Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Watershed Restoration None SRWMD 2005 - 2008 Land Use Land Cover Archbold Biological Station Abrahamson, W. G., A. F. Johnson, J. N. Layne, and P. A. Peroni. 1984. Vegetation of the Archbold Biological Station, Florida: an example of the southern Lake Wales Ridge. Florida Scientist 47:209-250. None 19840101 ground condition Archbold Biological Station Vegetation Map Archbold Biological Station; Florida Natural Areas Inventory; The Nature Conservancy None 20000101 20020101 ground condition Lake Wales Ridge Vegetation Mapping Photo Science, Inc. None 20040101 ground condition SFWMD 2004_05 LCLU Florida Natural Areas Inventory Gulledge, K., G. Schultz, and A. Johnson. 2009. Coastal maritime hammock evaluation and delineation, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida: Final Report. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. None 20090101 ground condition Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Natural Community Map St. Johns River Water Management District None 20040101 ground condition SJRWMD Land Use and Land Cover (2004) Southwest Florida Water Management District None 20080101 ground condition SWFWMD 2008 Land Use Land Cover Institute for Regional Conservation Data provided by Keith Bradley, IRC None 20050101 20090101 ground condition Natural Forest Communities of Miami-Dade County Avon Park Air Force Range Data provided by Steve Orzell, APAFR None 19990101 ground condition Avon Park Air Force Range Natural Vegetation Communities Florida Natural Areas Inventory 20100101 None 20070101 ground condition Upland Glades Occurrence Map Florida Natural Areas Inventory 19990101 None 19970101 ground condition Eglin Air Force Base Land Cover Map QuestEcology Gordon, D. 2005. Distribution of the Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) within the Hillsborough/Manatee Metapopulation. Report to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Data provided by David Gordon, QuestEcology None 20050101 ground condition Scrub Soils for Five Southwest Counties Spatial and Attribute Information Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Watershed Restoration 20090304 NWFWMD 2006-07 Land Use Land Cover 0 onLine FNAI David Breininger Breininger, D. R. 2003. Biological criteria for the recovery of Florida Scrub-Jay populations on public lands in Brevard County and Indian River County. Final Report to Endangered Species Office, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jacksonville, FL, USA. <http://northflorida.fws.gov/Scrub-Jays/breininger-2003-report.htm>. Accessed 14 Jul 2010. Breininger, D. R., B. Toland, D. M. Oddy, and M. L. Legare. 2006. Landcover characterizations and Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) population dynamics. Biological Conservation 128:169-181. None 19940101 19990101 ground condition David Breininger Scrub Polygons Spatial and Attribute Information U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Data provided by Mike Keys, USFWS None 20040101 20090101 Unknown St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge Habitats The Cooperative Land Cover map integrates data from multiple sources. All sources were crosswalked into the Florida Land Cover Classification System (Kawula 2009) All source datasets were received and processed as vector data. We used a set of standard geoprocessing and topology operations in ArcGIS 9.3 to ensure no overlapping features within or among datasets. All data were projected into the Florida Albers custom coordinate system with NAD 1983 HARN datum. We applied a minimum mapping unit of 0.5 acres and dissolved each polygon <0.5 acres into its largest neighboring polygon except for scrub, pine rockland and upland glade polygons for which we applied a minimum mapping unit of 0.1 acres. Finally, lines between neighboring polygons with the same classification were dissolved. Based on our review of each dataset, we sometimes made other modifications as described in: Florida Natural Areas Inventory, 2010. Development of a Cooperative Land Cover Map: Final Report (available from FNAI upon request). Explanation of confidence categories: We evaluated datasets based on metadata, discussions with data providers and a general review of the spatial accuracy and classification. Based on this review we assigned a confidence category to each dataset that indicated how or if the dataset, or certain classes within the dataset, would be integrated into the final land cover map. A confidence category of 1 indicates the highest level of confidence; these data spatially superseded all other intersecting sources. Category 2 data took precedence over statewide datasets (FLUCCS, FLVEG) but did not supersede category 1. Category 3 data were used with review and revision. Category 4 data were used to identify additional areas for aerial photo review and help interpret classification during the review process; these data, however, were not directly integrated into the final map. Aerial Photography Review of Focal Communities: Areas within existing source data in categories 1 through 3 (non-ancillary sources) were excluded from the set of polygons to be reviewed. Scrub, scrubby flatwoods, sandhill, dry prairie and mesic flatwoods (in SWF and SF only) were reviewed simultaneously as a single set of review polygons. We inspected the review polygons as well as proximal areas with the latest high resolution aerial photography (2006 - 2009) and other ancillary data sources including aerial photography from 2004, 1999 and 1995, topographic maps, county soils maps and other land cover datasets. We reviewed areas at a scale of 1:5000 with a minimum mapping unit of 0.5 acres with exception to include smaller polygons for scrub and pine rockland. We spatially edited polygons and delineated new polygons where necessary to identify focal communities and then assigned the polygon a land cover type. We deleted polygons from the set of review polygons that did not represent priority communities and were otherwise correctly classified. We always assigned a land cover type to polygons classified as FLUCCS Coastal Scrub, Xeric Oak, Sand Pine, or Longleaf Pine - Xeric Oak; in addition almost all review polygons in the SWF and SF districts were assigned a land cover type. Any deleted polygon will default to its FLUCCS class in the final land cover map. FNAI biologists familiar with the focal communities both on the ground and through aerial photo interpretation performed the initial polygon inspections. A second reviewer then re-inspected the polygons that were assigned as one of the focal communities. We also checked all locations from the FNAI element occurrence database that reference scrub, scrubby flatwoods, sandhill or dry prairie. We identified areas that appeared to be functioning as viable natural communities. Areas that were historically scrub or sandhill but are now disturbed so that they likely no longer support their characteristic ecological elements or that have succeeded to another natural community type were excluded or classified as another land cover type. We classified many former sandhills as successional hardwood forest. We classified pine plantation as scrub or sandhill where it appeared to function ecologically as a natural community. This was especially true of planted sand pine scrub which can tolerate a high degree of disturbance. We examined aerial photographs from 1995 and 1999 to help determine the level of past ground disturbance. We did not include small patches within residential areas, although if there appeared to be functional large patches within low density or rural residential areas we included them. We mapped only obvious patches of scrubby flatwoods. This community was sometimes difficult to distinguish from scrub and we did not follow strict criteria for distinguishing the two. For dry prairie we strictly followed the FNAI definition of treeless areas of low shrubs and grasses within the buffered historic dry prairie extent. Many prairie-like areas are pine flatwoods in which trees have been removed. To determine dry prairie from flatwoods we considered geographic position, shrub patterns, proximity of wetlands and overall landscape context. For more details: Florida Natural Areas Inventory, 2010. Development of a Cooperative Land Cover Map: Final Report (available from FNAI upon request). Assemblage of Data Sources into Final Map: We separated the data into 3 components for assembly into statewide land cover: 1) Local Source data, which consisted of all local sources with confidence category 1 through 3; 2) FNAI Review data, which consisted of all datasets that we inspected and classified through aerial photo review; and 3) FLUCCS. The SWFWMD published a new version of FLUCCS based on 2008 photography in spring 2010. Although we used 2007 FLUCCS for aerial photo review and comparative analyses in that district, we incorporated the 2008 data in the final land cover map. We converted all datasets into 15 m ESRI grids and combined them based on the following rules: 1) Local Source data with confidence category 1 and 2 superseded FNAI Review data; 2) FNAI Review data superseded Local Source data with confidence category 3; 3) all Local Source 1 through 3 and FNAI Review data superseded FLUCCS. GeoPlan downloaded this layer from FNAI on December 15th, 2011. 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