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Since the middle of this century, long-leaf pine forests have been cut at a rate of 525 km2/yr (130,000 acres/year) and replaced with monoculture plantations of slash pine (Pinus elliottii).
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Pine rocklands are fire-maintained pine forests (dominated by slash pine, Pinus elliottii) with a mixture of tropical and temperate understory plants.
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Some xeric coastal strand and pine scrub vegetation, with live oak (Quercus virginiana), upland laurel oak (Q. hemisphaerica), and slash pine (Pinus elliottii), occurs on parts of the barrier islands.
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Historically, pine savannas with slash and longleaf pine (Pinus elliottii, P. palustris) and a variety of grasses, sedges, rushes, pitcher plants and orchids were common.
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There was a little settlement along the coast and in 1956 the State Department of Forestry planted 5,000 ha in the Eastern Shores State Forest, mainly of Pinus elliottii and species of eucalyptus, but these were phased out in 1991 because of their low economic value.
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Pines such as loblolly (Pinus taeda), slash (P. elliottii), shortleaf (P. echinata), Virginia
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Volume tables young stands Pinus elliottii var. elliottii
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Volume measurement Pinus elliottii var. elliottii trees basal diameter
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These occur on organic soils in hypo-saline drainage lines and marshes around freshwater lakes usually flooded with slow-flowing water after rains; mangroves, dominated by Bruguieria gymnorrhiza and Avicennia marina; the uniquely well developed coastal dune forest (Mimusops caffra, Grewia occidentalis, Psychotria capensis) which can reach 30 m high and has a dense shrub layer with many lianas; sand forest on relict dunes of highly-leached sands (Newtonia hildebrandtii, Cleistanthus schlechteri); and coastal lowland forest growing to 30 m high on highly leached sands (Strychnos decussata, S. gerrardii); also plantations of Pinus elliottii.
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Volume tables Pinus elliottii var. elliottii Santa Barbara Rio Pardo condition forest, Sao Paulo
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