Hole-in-the-Donut: Habitat Restoration Project
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Brazilian Pepper is an invasive shrub that colonized disturbed soil from historic farming within Everglades National Park. This video chronicles the long-term process to restore the native wetland plant community.
Fantastic job NPS! Another great piece.
Appreciated that you showed the project over 11 years. Most of us ordinary types fail to see the long-term consequences / rewards of these types of efforts. Watching the beginning of this episode (complete soil removal of HitD), I was skeptical. But by giving us an 11 year look at the project even the skeptics have to appreciate the outcome.
Thanks again NPS!
Funny, it was so easy for me to restore my own building lot by clearing, mowing, then planting muscadyne grape, allowing pines and palmettoes to return and 10 years later it is totally native.
This gave me goosebumps so incredible!!
The florida holly is a native plant, the Brazilian pepper is commonly mistaken as the florida holly because of the red berries
Not sure what to think. Stockpiling spoils? Seems like this is just a band-aid, doesn't it just grow there? Don't birds still eat it? Also with the land that denuded, doesn't storm water run off create it's own problems? And at around 7:41, it looks like new seedlings are either Lead Tree/Jumbie Bean or Mimosa. Seems like there should be some seeding of native grasses/plants...
I assist a botanist in monitoring the plants in the Hole-in-the-Donut. It's a project that has been going on since the 80's, with the oldest restoration area from 1989 and many done in the 90's as well (continuing on to the present day). The oldest restoration areas have excellent diversity, including the main native plant species growing in what this habitat was before agriculture (Cladium, Muhlenbergia). The seedlings you are referring to at 7:41 are Sesbania herbacea, a native species although not one that is typical in mature wet prairies. The newer restoration areas have much lower quality (weedier) species but the natives take over as the area matures. It really is an incredible project! Not perfect but wow, it's incredible the difference and the biodiversity that is supported by clearing out the brazilian pepper. Here is an iNaturalist project I made to show what people have reported within restoration areas: www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=everglades-national-park-hole-in-the-donut-restoration&verifiable=any&place_id=any
Wow
Who says its not supposed to be there? I don't .....
scientists
@@ryankay2048 In other words, people who are educated on the ecology of the area