Canebrake biota
This table offers a summary of biota commonly associated with canebrakes in the Southeast from data presented by Platt et al. 2001.
Species |
| Utilization of resource | |||||
| Food1 | Habitat/ | Reproductive/ | Documented | |||
MAMMALS |
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Bison (Bison bison) | X | X |
| X | |||
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) | X | X |
| X | |||
Elk (Cervus elaphus) | X | X |
| X | |||
Black bear (Ursus americanus) | X | X |
| X | |||
Swamp rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus) | X | X |
| X | |||
Carnivores |
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Cougars (Felis concolor) | X |
|
| X | |||
Bobcats (Lynx rufus) | X |
|
| X | |||
Wolves (Canis rufus) | X |
|
| X | |||
X |
|
| X | ||||
Insectivores |
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Short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) |
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| X | |||
Southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostrus) |
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| X | |||
Least shrew (Cryptotis parva) |
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| X | |||
Rodents |
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Southern bog lemming (Synaptomys cooperi helaletes) |
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|
| X | |||
Golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) |
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| X | X | |||
Rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) |
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| X | |||
Harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys fulvescens and R. humulis) |
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| X | |||
Cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) |
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| X | |||
Cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus) |
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| X | |||
White-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) |
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| X | |||
Meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) |
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|
| X | |||
Eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana) |
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| X | X | |||
Tree squirrels (Sciurus spp.) |
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|
| X | |||
Beaver (Castor canadensis) | X |
|
| X | |||
BIRDS |
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Bachman\xe2\x80\x99s warbler (Vermivora bachmanii) | X | X | X | X | |||
Swainson\xe2\x80\x99s warbler (Limnothlysis swainsonii) | X | X | X | X | |||
Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) | X | X | X | X | |||
Passenger Pigeon (Extopistes migratorius) | X |
|
| X | |||
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) |
|
| X | X | |||
Common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) |
| X |
| X | |||
American robin (Turdus migratorius) |
| X |
| X | |||
Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) |
|
| X | X | |||
Hooded warbler (Wilsonia citrina) |
|
| X | X | |||
White-eyed vireo (Vireo griseus) |
|
| X | X | |||
| X |
| X | ||||
| X |
| X | ||||
Eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) |
| X |
| X | |||
Prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea) |
| X |
| X | |||
Worm-eating warbler (Helmitheros vermivorus) |
| X |
| X | |||
Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillus) |
| X |
| X | |||
X | X | X | X | ||||
REPTILES |
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Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) | X |
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| X | |||
Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) | X |
|
| X | |||
Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus and C. horridus atricaudatus) | X |
|
| X | |||
Pygmy rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius) | X |
|
| X | |||
INVERTEBRATES |
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Creole pearly eye (Enodia creola) | X | X | X | X | |||
Southern pearly eye (Enodia portlandia) | X | X | X | X | |||
Southern swamp skipper (Poanes yehl) | X | X | X | X | |||
Cobweb little skipper (Amblyscirtes aesculapius) | X | X | X | X | |||
Cane little skipper (Amblyscirtes reversa) | X | X | X | X | |||
Yellow little skipper (Amblyscirtes | X | X | X | X | |||
Other documented invertebrate families Meanley (1966) |
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Carabidae |
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| X | |||
Cryptophagidae |
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| X | |||
Formicidae |
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| X | |||
Gryllidae |
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| X | |||
Ichneumonidae |
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| X | |||
Platygasteridae |
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| X | |||
Staphylinidae |
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| X | |||
Tenebrionidae |
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| X | |||
Tettigoniidae |
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| X | |||
1 Many of the above species use canebrakes as an indirect food source. For example, bobcats prey upon swamp rabbits that frequent the canebrakes, they do not directly feed on the cane as a forage.




