Griffy Lake Nature Preserve Herpetofauna and Avian Surveys
Table 1. Plant community types, coverage, and percent composition at the Griffy Lake Nature Preserve, Monroe County, Indiana. Plant Community Mesic Sloping Woodlands Young Mesic Woodland on Limestone Ridges Reservoir- Open Water (Griffy Lake) Dry Mesic Slope Mature Mesic Woodland on Limestone Ridges Mesic Floodplain Woodlands Wet-mesic Floodplain Woodlands Dry Slopes Wet Floodplain Woodlands Pine Plantation Wet Old Field Dry Mesic Ridges Seasonal Mudflats Cultural Communities Emergent Wetlands Dry Ridges Sterile Old Field Habitat Totala
Acres 553 173.2 109 104.4 47.8 44.8 42.8 20.6 17.9 9.4 7.2 7 5.6 5.2 5 3.1 0.3 1,156.3
Percent Composition 47.8 15.0 9.4 9.0 4.1 3.9 3.7 1.8 1.5 0.8 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.0 100
Source: Adapted from Tungesvick 2019 a Sums of values may not add to total value shown due to rounding
Figure 2. Mesic sloping woodlands that underwent a controlled burn in spring of 2020.
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