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| Habitat Overview |
This habitat includes a number of co-adapted complexes consisting of various wetland species of heaths, hollies, and other shrub species along with their obligate herbivores.
The physical factors that determine the presence of the shrubs include a high water table, producing constantly saturated, wet soils; acidic, nutrient poor soil types; and periodic fires. The largest expanses of these habitats occur on wet flats in the Outer Coastal Plain. In the Sandhills, they include seepage slopes, streamhead forests, and the ecotones between these wetlands and the adjoining drier Longleaf-dominated habitats. For the herbivores, the main habitat requirement is the presence of their larval host plants. Those that pupate on the ground must be able to cope with the prevailing soil and water conditions, but others may spend their entire lives up in the shrubs.
Other MSD Habitats that intersect this habitat type include Laurel Shrublands, General Heath Thickets, and General Shrublands and Thickets. All of those habitats contain species that are common in the peatlands and other acidic wetlands that characterize Coastal Plain Wet Acidic Shrublands; the members of the General Shrublands and Thickets group, in fact, may be the most prominent vertebrates in this habitat. However, all of the members of these intersecting habitats occupy a much wider range, including areas of uplands as well as wetlands associated with rich soils.
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| Related NHP Natural Communities |
This habitat intersects a large array of the NHP Natural Communities (Schafale and Weakley, 1990; Schafale, 2012), covering most types of wetlands in the Coastal Plain except those along brownwater rivers and salt-influenced areas in the Tidewater region. Peatland examples include: Low Pocosin, Pocosin Opening, High Pocosin, Pond Pine Woodland, Bay Forest, Streamhead Pocosin, and Streamhead Atlantic White Cedar Forest. Additional non-riverine forests include: Nonriverine Wet Hardwood Forest, Nonriverine Swamp Forest, and Peatland Atlantic White Cedar Forest. Longleaf Pine examples include Wet Pine Flatwoods and the following types that typically occur as inclusions within Longleaf Pine habitats: Small Depression Pocosin, Small Depression Shrub Border, and Coastal Plain Depression Swamp.
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| Determining Species |
Phagic and Competitory Symbioses: (Cyrilla racemiflora/Argyrostrotis erasa-Argyrostrotis flavistriaria) // (Magnolia virginiana/Callosamia securifera) // ((Gordonia lasianthus/Gondysia similis) // ((Lyonia lucida/Zomaria rosaochreana) // (Ilex species/Celastrina idella)
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| Candidates for Inclusion |
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| Habitat Sub-sets |
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| Distribution Map | |
| Distribution |
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| Survey Coverage Map |
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| Survey Coverage |
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| Survey Priorities |
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| Average Imperilment of Habitat Members |
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| Habitat Conservation Status |
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| High Quality Habitat Occurrence Table |
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| High Quality Habitat Occurrences |
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| Protected Habitat Occurrences |
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| Threats and Trends |
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| Status Summary |
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| Stewardship Recommendations |
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| References |
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| Updated on |
2019-11-25 23:41:55 |
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