Functional Ecology 37: 1449-1462. The longleaf pine (LLP) savanna ecosystem once covered ~92 million acres of the Southeast USA, but due to anthropogenic activities such as logging and fire ...

The southern hognose snake lives in longleaf pine savanna, a fire-dependent ecosystem that once covered an estimated 92 million acres in the Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions. By the 21st century, ...

HABITAT: Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes require large tracts of open-canopy habitats. Although the snakes once thrived in the abundant longleaf pine savannas that characterized the southeastern ...