Literature Cited

Introduction

Deyrup, M. 1989. Arthropods endemic to Florida scrub. Florida Scientist 52:254-270

Myers, R. L. and J. W. Ewel, Ed. 1990. Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press, Orlando.

White, W.A. 1970. The geomorphology of the Florida peninsula. Florida Bureau of Geology, Geological Bulletin 51, 164 pp., 7 maps (Pp. 11-123 cover the central Highlands.)

Sand: The Foundation of Florida Scrub

Deyrup, M. and T. Eisner. 1993. Last stand in the sand. Natural History 102(12): 42-49.

Deyrup, M. and T. Eisner. 1996. Description and natural history of new pygmy mole cricket from relict xeric uplands of Florida (Orthoptera:Tridactylidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 17: 59-67.

Johnson, A. and W. Abrahamson.1982. Quercus inopina: a species to be recognized from south-central Florida. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 109: 392-395.

Johnston, G. R. 1996. Thermal ecology of the gopher tortoise (Gopheus polyphemus) in south-central Florida. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Miami.

Myers, R. L. and J. W. Ewel, Ed. 1990. Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press, Orlando.

Peterson, I. 1997. Dry sand, wet sand. Digging into the physics of sand piles and sand castles. Science News 152(12): 186-187.

Sand-Dwelling Animals

Antlions:

Bahls, P. and M. Deyrup. 1988. A habitual lurking predator of the Florida harvester ant. Pp. 547-55 in Trager, J. C., ed. Advances in Myrmecology. E. J. Brill, New York.

Cain, M. 1987. Prey capture behavior and diel movement of Brachynemurus (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontida) antlion larvae in south central Florida. Florida Entomologist 70(3): 397-400.

Deyrup, M. and T. Eisner. 1993. Last stand in the sand. Natural History 102(12): 42-47.

Lucas, J. 1982. The biophysics of pit construction by antlion larvae (Myrmelion, Neuroptera). Animal Behaviour 30(3): 651-664.

Lucas, J. and H. Brockmann. 1981. Predatory interactions between ants and antlions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae and Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 54(2): 228-232.

Topoff, H. 1977. The pit and the antlion. Natural History 86(4): 64-71.

Youthed, G. J. and V. C. Moran. 1969. The solar-day activity rhythm of Myrmeleontid larvae. Journal of Insect Physiology 15: 1103-1116.

Youthed, G. J. and V. C. Moran. 1969. Pit construction by Myrmeleontid larvae. Journal of Insect Physiology 15: 867-875.

Spiders:

Levi, H. and L. Levi. 1968. A guide to spiders. A Golden Nature Guide, Golden Press, New York. Pp. 82-85.

Marshall, S. 1994. Territorial aggregation in the burrowing wolf spider Geolycosa xera archboldi McCrone: formation, maintenance and consequences. Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ. Of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Wallace, H. 1942. A revision of the burrowing spiders of the Genus Geolycosa (Araneae, Lycosidae). American Midland Naturalist 27: 1-62.

Ants:

Crompton, J. 1954. Ways of the ant. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. Pp.121-134.

Feinsinger, P. and M. Minno. nd. Handbook to schoolyard plants and animals of North Central Florida. The Nongame Wildlife Program, Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission.

Hölldobler, B. and E.O. Wilson. 1994. Journey to the ants. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Tschinkel, W. and A. Bhatkar. 1974. Oriented mound building in the ant, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis. Environmental Entomology 3: 667-673

Weber, N. 1956. Fungus-growing ants and their fungi: Trachymyrmex septentrionalis. Ecology 37: 150-161.

Wilson, Edward O. 1971. The insect societies. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Life in the Leaf Litter Layer:

Mushrooms:

Bessette, A. and W. Sundberg. 1987. Mushrooms, A quick reference guide to mushrooms of North America. MacMillan Field Guides, Collier Books, New York.

Pacioni, G. 1981. Simon and Schuster's guide to mushrooms. U.S. Ed. G. Lincoff. A Fireside Book, Simon and Schuster, New York.

McKnight, K. and V. McKnight. 1987. A field guide to mushrooms of North America. The Peterson Field Guide Series, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.

Bonner, J.. 1993. Life cycles, reflections of an evolutionary biologist. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., Pp. 56-59.

Plant-Animal Interactions

Palmettos:

Abrahamson, W. G. 1995. Habitat distribution and competitive neighborhoods of two Florida palmettos. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 122: 1-14.

Maehr, D. S. and J. N. Layne. 1996. The saw palmetto, Florida's all-purpose plant. The Palmetto 16(4): 6-10,15,21.

Tanner, G., J. J. Mullahey, and D. Maehr. Saw-palmetto: an ecologically and economically important native palm. IFAS Circular WEC-109. Found in University of Florida Range Science Program on the World Wide Web. (www.wec.ufl.edu/range/sawpalm/s_ecol.html)

Revised 18 April 2000 by Fred Lohrer.