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Turtle on log.
Caption: 
River cooter (Pseudemys concinna), Florida.
Credit: 
© O. Langrand

Information about the North American Coastal Plain Biodiversity Hotspot was developed from the following cited sources:

Audubon Nature Institute. (n.d.). Mississippi Sandhill Crane.

Berger, Cynthia. (2004). The bald eagle may be the symbol of our country--but these bird species are the only ones that live solely within our borders. National Wildlife Federation.

Center for Plant Conservation. (2010). Lysimachia asperulifolia.

Coastal Plain Conservation Group. (n.d.).

Flores-Villela, O., Parra-Olea, G., Hammerson, G.A., Wake, D. & Irwin, K. (2008). Notophthalmus meridionalis. The IUCN Redlist of Threatened Species 2008.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. (n.d.).

Florida Natural Areas Inventory. (2001). Southeastern American Kestrel.

Forest Guides. (n.d.) Houston Toad.

Geoffrey Hammerson, John Jensen. (2004). Lithobates capito. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004.

Goodyear, Numi C.. (1987). Distribution and Habitat of the Silver Rice Rat, Oryzomys Argentatus. Journal of Mammalogy 68 (3). [American Society of Mammalogists, Oxford University Press]: 692–95. doi:10.2307/1381608.

Grosse, Andrew M. (n.d.). Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi). Savannah River Ecology Laboratory.

Kowalski, Ed and Watkins-Colwell, Greg. (2004). Amphiuma pholeter. Caudata Culture.

National Wildlife Federation. (n.d.). Global Warming and Mangroves.

Nations Encyclopedia. (n.d.). Tamaulipas.

New England Wild Flower Society. (n.d.). Lycopodiella alopecuroides.

Noss, Reed F., Platt, William J., Sorrie, Bruce A., Weakley, Alan S., Means, D. Bruce, Costanza, Jennifer, and Peet, Robert K. (2014). How global biodiversity hotspots may go unrecognized: lessons from the North American Coastal Plain. Diversity and Distributions: A Journal of Conservation Biogeography.

Noss, Reed F., Platt, William J., Sorrie, Bruce A., Weakley, Alan S., Means, D. Bruce, Costanza, Jennifer, and Peet, Robert K. (2014). SUPPORTING INFORMATION: Noss et al., “HOW A GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT, THE NORTH AMERICAN COASTAL PLAIN, WENT UNRECOGNIZED” S1: ENDEMIC VASCULAR PLANT TAXA OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF COASTAL PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA.

Noss, Reed F., Platt, William J., Sorrie, Bruce A., Weakley, Alan S., Means, D. Bruce, Costanza, Jennifer, and Peet, Robert K. (2014). SUPPORTING INFORMATION: Noss et al., “HOW A GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT, THE NORTH AMERICAN COASTAL PLAIN, WENT UNRECOGNIZED”

S2: ENDEMIC VERTEBRATE TAXA OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF COASTAL PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA (adapted from D.B. Means, unpublished data).

Noss, Reed F., Platt, William J., Sorrie, Bruce A., Weakley, Alan S., Means, D. Bruce, Costanza, Jennifer, and Peet, Robert K. (2014). SUPPORTING INFORMATION: Noss et al., “HOW A GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT, THE NORTH AMERICAN COASTAL PLAIN, WENT UNRECOGNIZED”

S3: Assessing Vegetation Modification in the Coastal Plain.

Noss, Reed F., Platt, William J., Sorrie, Bruce A., Weakley, Alan S., Means, D. Bruce, Costanza, Jennifer, and Peet, Robert K. (2014). Table S3.1 Classification of Ecosystems (Biophysical Settings; see above) into General Habitat Types.

Snoeks, J., Laleye, P. & Contreras-MacBeath, T. (2009). Prietella lundbergi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009.

South Carolina Department of Resources. (n.d.). Pine Barrens Treefrog.

South Florida Museum. (n.d.). Longleaf Pine Forest Overview.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (2015). Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Recovery.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (n.d.). Species Profile for Mississippi Sandhill crane (Grus canadensis pulla).