Florida Natural Areas Inventory 20050901 vector digital data http://www.fnai.org/ FLEO_AUG05State of Florida2005Florida Natural Areas Inventory This data set is a point layer locating the occurrences of endangered or rare plants and animals, high quality natural communities and other occurrences of natural resource interest in the Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) database. An "Element" is any exemplary or rare component of the natural environment, such as a species, plant community, bird rookery, spring, sinkhole, cave or other ecological feature. An "Element Occurrence" (EO) represents the locational record of an element and is a single extant habitat which sustains or otherwise contributes to the survival of a population or a distinct, self-sustaining example of a particular natural community. The data set was developed to assist public and private organizations in efforts to conserve important elements of biodiversity within the state of Florida. enPOINT 2005-08-24 publication date Complete As needed -87.429040 -79.872251 30.983191 24.492815 57867.177734794568.29351922770.412786780734.355930 Florida none ISO 19115 Topic Category biota This data is not for public distribution. It is intended only for use in FDOT's Efficient Transportation Decision Making process. THE DATA INCLUDED IN FGDL ARE 'AS IS' AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS LEGALLY BINDING. THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GEOPLAN CENTER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING, CONTRIBUTING OR DISTRIBUTING THE MATERIALS A note about data scale: Scale is an important factor in data usage. Certain scale datasets are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling purposes. Please be sure you are using the best available data. 1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the county level. 1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such as property parcel boundaries. 1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the multi-county or regional level. 1:125000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the regional or state level or larger. Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data before using it for projects or analysis. Every effort has been made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact section of this documentation. For more information regarding scale and accuracy, see our webpage at: http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html Glenn Woodsum Florida Natural Areas Inventory Data Manager mailing address

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Gainesville Florida 32611-5706 850-224-8207, ext.221 850-681-9364 Web site: http://www.fgdl.org Technical Support: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfeed.html For FGDL Software: http://www.fgdl.org/software.html FGDL Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdlfaq.html FGDL Mailing Lists: http://www.fgdl.org/fgdl-l.html The Florida Natural Areas Inventory creates and maintains this data set as a subset of information contained in a larger database. Source materials used to produce the primary database comprise a wide variety of sources, both public and private, and may be either published or unpublished. SHAPEFILEhttp://www.fnai.org/ Since the March 2005 version of the FLEO database, many element occurrence points have been merged with other points where there were two or more EOs for the same element in close proximity. Part of FNAI's contract with FDOT called for replacing at least 2000 point source EOs with polygon shapes. Since the FLEO theme contains points representing the centroids of our EO polygons, ALL of the EOs converted from point to polygon will appear at a new location. To the end user, it may appear that element occurrence points have been deleted, but the underlying data are retained in the data base. Data for the deleted EOs become integrated with the "survivor" EO. The point-based FLEO will only show a single shape for such an EO, but the polygon representation generally will contain all of the shapes of the deleted EOs. All element occurrences in this data set have been subjected to an internal quality control process by FNAI staff members. Part of this process examines the logical consistency of whether or not the mapped element seems appropriate for occurrence at the mapped location and whether or not mapped features are consistent with both the original source material and heritage program mapping standards. Taxonomic completeness: FNAI tracks elements of biodiversity including vascular and non-vascular plants, vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds, and mammals), invertebrates, and natural communities. All species federally listed as threatened or endangered are included, although the pondberry (Lindera melissifolia), is tracked only on a watch list. With the same exception, all NatureServe G1 and G2-ranked species are tracked, although some elements with questionable taxonomic status may be tracked under alternative names. Most Florida state-listed threatened and endangered species are tracked. Of 114 plant species listed threatened by the state of Florida (FDACS), 54 are formally tracked, 56 are watch-listed, while 4 species are considered (by FNAI) to be sufficiently common such that tracking is not warranted. Of the 431 plant species listed endangered, we track 378 species and maintain 39 species on a watch-list. All state listed (FFWCC) animal species are tracked, excluding the sei, fin, humpback, and sperm whales. Due to historical priorities and FNAI program resources, the invertebrate and fish (particularly marine and estuarine) components of biodiversity are less well represented than are the other element categories. Geographic completeness: The inventory includes truly statewide coverage of both public and private lands. Some areas which have not been as thoroughly surveyed or researched due to access restrictions include some corporate timberlands, primarily across north Florida, and several large (over 10,000 acres) private ranches, mostly in central Florida. Aquatic areas in general, and in particular marine and estuarine habitats, have not been as extensively surveyed due in part to the historical mission of FNAI and a lack of funding support for work in these areas. Horizontal accuracy varies according to each element occurrence. Attribute fields eo_size and rep_acc provide information relative to each occurrence such that certain aspects of horizontal accuracy may be deduced. This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan Spatial and Attribute Information publication dateUnknownFNAIFLORIDA NATURAL AREAS INVENTORY20050901www.fnai.org/vector digital data20050901publication date Shapefile created. 2005-08-24 Glenn Woodsum Florida Natural Areas Inventory Data Manager mailing and physical address

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Tallahassee Florida 32303 USA 850-224-8207, ext. 221 850-681-9364 gwoodsum@fnai.org GeoPlan received updated FLEO shapefile in August 2005 from FNAI. The shapefile was in Albers HPGN. A DESCRIPT field was added based on SNAME and ACQDATE was added and populated with 08/01/05.20050801 Vector Entity point 28595 SimplePointFALSE28595FALSEFALSE coordinate pair 0.002048 0.002048 meters Albers Conical Equal Area24.00000031.500000-84.00000024.000000400000.0000000.000000 D_North_American_1983_HARN Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 Albers Conical Equal AreaHPGNGeodetic Reference System 806378137.000000298.257222GCS_North_American_1983_HARN FLEO_AUG05 Feature Class28595FLEO_AUG05.DBF FID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Type of GIS feature (always "point" in this layer). This is program generated and for internal use only. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. FEATURE_ID Unique numerical identifier for the GIS feature, software generated, for internal use by FNAI. Number12 EO_ID Unique numerical identifier for the element occurrence, software generated, for internal use by FNAI. Number166 ELCODE Unique alphanumerical identifier for the element, originally designed by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Nature Serve. String10 EO_NUMBER Numerical identifier for this instance of the element. Number166 SNAME The scientific name of the element. String69 SCOMNAME The common name of the element. String69 DATASENS Data Sensitive - A "Y" or "N" indicating whether positional information on this Element Occurrence is sensitive and should be restricted from unsecured use. Examples of situations where positional information may not be released include: 1) occurrences that are protected as rare species under federal law; 2) occurrences that are showy or fragile or otherwise subject to collection, intentional destruction, or harmful visits; and 3) cases where information on an occurrence from a personal source is considered proprietary until such time as the data are formally published. Y Element identification and position information on this Element Occurrence is sensitive and should be restricted from unsecured use. N Element identification and position information on this Element Occurrence is not sensitive. String1 EORANK Element Occurrence Rank - A code for the overall rank of the Element Occurrence. Assigned by FNAI staff according to Nature Serve guidelines and are indicative of overall viability of the occurrence. Overall viability combines factors such as size, condition, and threats to persistence from the neighboring landscape. Viability is estimated using a combination of factors that contribute to continued survival of the element at the location. Among these are the size of the EO, general condition of the EO at the site, and the conditions of the landscape surrounding the EO (e.g. an immediate threat to an EO by local development pressure could lower an EO rank). A Excellent estimated viability/ecological integrity A? Probably excellent estimated viability/ecological integrity AB Excellent or good estimated viability/ecological integrity AC Excellent, good, or fair estimated viability/ecological integrity B Good estimated viability/ecological integrity B? Probably good estimated viability/ecological integrity BC Good or fair estimated viability/ecological integrity BD Good, fair, or poor estimated viability/ecological integrity C Fair estimated viability/ecological integrity C? Probably fair estimated viability/ecological integrity CD Fair or poor estimated viability/ecological integrity D Poor estimated viability/ecological integrity D? Probably poor estimated viability/ecological integrity E Verified extant (viability/ecological integrity not assessed) Assigned to an EO that has been recently verified as still existing, But sufficient information on the rank factors (size, condition, landscape context) used to estimate viability/ecological integrity of the EO has not yet been obtained. Use of the E rank is reserved for those situations where the occurrence is thought to be extant, but an A, B, C, D, or range rank cannot be assigned. E? Probably extant Assigned to an EO for which there is insufficient information to know if the EO is extant or historical (e.g., the last date of observation is unknown but it is thought to probably be in the past 20-40 years - see definition for H). F Failed to find Assigned to an EO that has not been found despite a search by an experienced observer where it was previously reported, but that still might be confirmed to exist at that location with additional field survey efforts. For EOs with vague locational information, the search must include areas of appropriate habitat within the range of locational uncertainty. H Historical This rank should be used when there is a lack of recent field information verifying the continued existence of an EO, such as (a) when an EO is based only on historical collections data; or (b) when an EO was ranked A, B, C, D, or E at one time and is later, without field survey work, considered to be possibly extirpated due to general habitat loss or degradation of the environment in the area. This definition of the H rank is dependent on an interpretation of what consititutes "recent" field information. In general, if there is no known survey of an animal EO within the last 20 years, it should be assigned an H rank. Similarly, if there is no known survey of a plant or community EO within the last 20 to 40 years, it should be assigned an H rank. While these time frames represent suggested maximum limits, the actual time period for the historical EOs may vary according to the biology of the Element and the specific landscape context of each occurance (including anthropogenic alteration of the environment). Thus, an H rank may be assigned to an EO before the maximum time frames have lapsed. Occurances that have not been surveyed for periods exeeding these time frames should not be ranked A, B, C, or D. The higher maximum limit for plants and communities (i.e., ranging from 20 to 40 years) is based on the assumption that occurances of these elements generally have the potential to persist at a given location for longer periods of time. This greater potential is a reflection of plant biology and community dynamics. However, landscape factors must also be considered. Thus, areas with more anthropogenic impacts on the environment (e.g. development) will be at the lower end of the range, and less-impacted areas will be at the higer end. X Extirpated Assigned to an EO for which there is documented destruction of its habitat or environment, or persuasive evidence of eradication based on adequate survery (i.e., thorough or repeated survey efforts by one or more experienced observers at times and under condidtions appropriate for the Element at that location. F? Possibly failed to find H? Possibly historical X? Possibly extirpated U Unrankable NR Not ranked, a placeholder when an EO is not (yet) ranked. String2 GRANK Global Rank - The rank which best characterizes the relative rarity or endangerment of the species or community worldwide. Using a ranking system developed by The Nature Conservancy and the Natural Heritage Program Network, the Florida Natural Areas Inventory assigns two ranks for each element. The global element rank is based on an element's worldwide status; the state element rank is based on the status of the element in Florida. Element ranks are based on many factors, the most important ones being estimated number of Element Occurrences (EOs), estimated abundance (number of individuals for species; area for natural communities), range, estimated number of adequately protected EOs, relative threat of destruction, and ecological fragility. FNAI GLOBAL ELEMENT RANK G1 Critically imperiled globally because of extreme rarity (5 or fewer occurrences or less than 1000 individuals) or because of extreme vulnerability to extinction due to some natural or man-made factor. G2 Imperiled globally because of rarity (6 to 20 occurrences or less than 3000 individuals) or because of vulnerability to extinction due to some natural or man-made factor. G3 Either very rare and local throughout its range (21-100 occurrences or less than 10,0000 individuals) or found locally in a restricted range or vulnerable to extinction from other factors. G4 Apparently secure globally (may be rare in parts of range). G5 Demonstrably secure globally. G#? Tentative rank (e.g., G2?) G#G# Range of rank; insufficient data to assign specific global rank (e.g., G2G3) G#T# Rank of a taxonomic subgroup such as a subspecies or variety; the G portion of the rank refers to the entire species and the T portion refers to the specific subgroup; numbers have same definition as above (e.g., G3T1) G#Q Rank of questionable species - ranked as species but questionable whether it is species or subspecies; numbers have same definition as above (e.g., G2Q) G#T#Q Same as above, but validity as subspecies or variety is questioned. GH Of historical occurrence throughout its range, may be rediscovered (e.g., ivory-billed woodpecker) GNA Ranking is not applicable because element is not a suitable target for conservation (e.g. as for hybrid species) GNR Not yet ranked (temporary) GNRTNR Neither the full species nor the taxonomic subgroup has yet been ranked (temporary) GX Believed to be extinct throughout range GXC Extirpated from the wild but still known from captivity/cultivation GU Unrankable. Due to lack of information, no rank or range can be assigned (e.g., GUT2). String10 SRANK State Rank - The rank which best characterizes the relative rarity or endangerment of the species or community statewide. FNAI STATE ELEMENT RANK Definition parallels global element rank: substitute "S" for "G" in above global ranks, and "in Florida" for "globally" in above global rank definitions. String10 FEDERAL FEDERAL: US Endangered Species Act Classification - For plant and animal species; the appropriate standard abbreviation for the U.S. Federal Register category for the species, subspecies, or variety as proposed or determined by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (marine species). FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS (U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service- USFWS) Provided by FNAI for information only. For official definitions and lists of protected species, consult the relevant federal agency. Definitions derived from U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973, Sec. 3. Note that the federal status given by FNAI refers only to Florida populations and that federal status may differ elsewhere. LE Listed as Endangered Species in the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act. Defined as any species which is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. LE,XN A non-essential experimental population of a species otherwise Listed as an Endangered Species. PE Proposed for addition to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants as Endangered Species. LT Listed as Threatened Species. Defined as any species which is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range. LT,PDL Species currently listed threatened but has been proposed for delisting. PT Proposed for listing as Threatened Species. C Candidate Species for addition to the list of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants, Category 1. Federal listing agencies have sufficient information on biological vulnerability and threats to support proposing to list the species as Endangered or Threatened . SAT Threatened due to similarity of appearance to a threatened species. SC Species of concern. Species is not currently listed but is of management concern to USFWS. N Not currently listed, nor currently being considered for addition to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants. String12 SPROT State Protection Status - For plant and animal species only; an abbreviation of the official endangerment status or level of legal protection the state assigns to this species. STATE LEGAL STATUS Provided by FNAI for information only. For official definitions and lists of protected species, consult the relevant state agency. LE Listed as Endangered Species by the FFWCC. Defined as a species, subspecies, or isolated population which is so rare or depleted in number or so restricted in range of habitat due to any man-made or natural factors that it is in immediate danger of extinction or extirpation from the state, or which may attain such a status within the immediate future LE Listed as Endangered Plants in the Preservation of Native Flora of Florida Act. Defined as species of plants native to the state that are in imminent danger of extinction within the state, the survival of which is unlikely if the causes of a decline in the number of plants continue, and includes all species determined to be endangered or threatened pursuant to the Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. String10 LASTOBS Last Observation - The date that the species or natural community occurrence was last observed to be extant at the site. This is not necessarily the date the site was last visited. Dates, years, or other forms of temporal denotation. circa 1870 2005 String20 DESCRIPTIO General Description - A description or "word picture" of the general area where the Element Occurrence is located. For plant and animal Elements, cites the communities at the Element Occurrence location. Also, when available, information on surrounding land use is included. These values will be subject to truncation after 254 characters. String254 EODATA Element Occurrence Data - Data collected on the biology of this Element Occurrence(EO). Specific information may include number of individuals, vigor, habitat, soils, associated species, peculiar characteristics, etc. These values will be subject to truncation after 254 characters. String254 BESTSOURCE Best Source - The single best source of information on the Element Occurrence. Preferably, the source should be a person, otherwise a citation to field notes, or a literature report, etc. may be used. Where a specimen(s) comprises the best source, a temporary placeholder is currently being used in the database to indicate this condition. String254 MANAME Names of Managed Areas in which the EO is (or was) located. Managed Areas are public lands and private preserves belonging to organizations. String254 COUNTY Abbreviation name of the county. The first four characters of the county name. It indicates the county or counties in which the element is or was located. String100 EOSIZE_AC Estimated size (acres) of a polygon-shaped spatial representation of the element occurrence. The occurrences presented in this theme are all point-based, and represent the centroid of the polygon that would be needed to represent the occurrence if one were to account for the actual size of the observed area of the element at this location, plus an additional area that must be added due to uncertainty as to the true location of the occurrence. For example, suppose someone in 1997 had observed the occupied nest of a rare bird species and obtained uncorrected GPS coordinates for the location of the nest. The actual observed area of this occurrence is small (by convention, the smallest area we map is a circle of 12.5 m diameter). Now, suppose we wanted to draw a circle that we were reasonably sure contained the true location of the nest. To do this we might find we needed to draw a circle of 200 m diameter in order to account for position error due to the uncorrected nature of the GPS data. The EO size attribute for this example would be the area of the 200m diameter circle. Note that the EO size for this example would be quite large relative to the area actually observed. A user of these data must use this field in conjunction with representation accuracy (below) in order to achieve a better understanding of the fact that the element occurrence may not occur exactly at the location of the dot on the map, and that the extent of the element at the site may be greater than that implied by a point feature. String40 REP_ACC Representation accuracy. This is the relative amount of the total EO size (see above) that is comprised of the actual observed area of the element. Domain values are low (>0%, <=20%), medium (>20%, <=80%), high (>80%<, <=95%), very high (>95%), unknown, and ZZ (not assessed).Thus, for the example given above, representation accuracy would be low (i.e., the observed area is small compared to the area of uncertainty or, put another way, the EO size attribute is a lot bigger than what was actually seen in the field). This field should always be used in conjunction with the EO size attribute. Only through consideration of these fields together can a user obtain a sense of the uncertainty inherent in the location of the mapped point and the extent of the observation of the element at the site. String22 MAPLABEL EO label for mapping convenience. When making maps from this data layer, the user may find this label easier to use than full scientific names or element codes of data elements. For most EOs, this attribute comprises a condensation of the scientific name of the species (or the element name if not a species), an asterisk, and the number of the specific element occurrence. Condensed names are formed by taking the first four characters of the first part of the element name (e.g. genus name) and the first four characters of the last part of the element name (e.g. species or subspecies name). For data elements designated as "sensitive" (DATASENS = "Y"), MAPLABEL is an encrypted value that contains the characters "DS" joined to a specially coded number for the species or other element. String13 DescriptDescriptString69FGDL added field based on SNAMEFGDLaqdateFGDLaqdateDate8FGDL added date field representing the date GeoPlan acquired data from source. Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) mailing address

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Tallahassee Florida 32303 USA 850-224-8207, ext. 217 850-681-9364 hseminick@fnai.org FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html ESRI Metadata Profile en {21055EF7-2BF2-4978-83AD-8A1D8C36F1F4}2005111510525100FALSE20051111114357002005111510425100{91F5494E-49D6-4D02-9EC6-C8D3752544A0}PublishedMicrosoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722FLEO_AUG0557867.177734794568.293519780734.3559322770.4127861-87.584517-79.86650331.03499324.1494731ISO 19115 Geographic Information - MetadataDIS_ESRI1.0dataset Albers Conical Equal Area (Florida Geographic Data Library)2859520051115