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Table 1.9--Ecosystem communities that have declined by 70% or more in the South since European settlement (Noss and others 1995). Based on the published literature, Natural Heritage programs, and expert opinion

Status	Ecosystem type	Geographic area
Critically endangered: >98% loss	Old-growth deciduous forests	Southeast
	Southern Appalachian spruce-fir	Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia
	Longleaf pine forests and savannas	Southeastern Coastal Plain
	Slash pine and Rockland habitat	Southern Florida
	Loblolly-shortleaf pine forests	West Gulf Coastal Plain
	Canebrakes	Southeast
	Bluegrass savannah-woodland and prairies	Kentucky
	Black Belt and Jackson prairies	Alabama, Mississippi
	Ungrazed dry prairie	Florida
	Wet and mesic coastal prairies	Louisiana
	Atlantic white-cedar	Virginia, North Carolina
	Native prairies	Kentucky
	Bottomland Forest	West Virginia
	High-quality oak-hickory	Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee
Endangered: 85-98% loss	Red spruce	Central Appalachians
	Spruce-fir forest	West Virginia
	Upland hardwoods	Coastal Plain, Tennessee
	Old-growth oak-hickory	Tennessee
	Cedar glades	Tennessee
	Longleaf pine	Texas, Louisiana
	Longleaf pine forest, 1936-1987	Florida
	Mississippi terrace prairie, calcareous prairie, Fleming glades	Louisiana
	Live oak, live oak-hickory	Louisiana
	Prairie terrace-loess oak forest	Louisiana
	Mature forest, all types	Louisiana
	Shortleaf pine-oak-hickory	Louisiana
	Mixed hardwood-loblolly pine	Louisiana
	Xeric sandhill	Louisiana
	Stream terrace-sandy wooded-savannah	Louisiana
	Slash pine	Florida
	Gulf coast pitcher-plant bogs	Coastal Plain
	Pocosins	Virginia
	Mountain bogs	North Carolina
	Appalachian bogs	Blue Ridge, Tennessee
	Upland wetlands	Highland Rim, Tennessee
	Ultramafic glades	Virginia
Threatened: 70-84% loss	Bottomland and riparian forest	Southeast
	Xeric scrub, scrubby flatwoods, sandhills	Lake Wales Ridge, Florida
	Tropical hardwood hammock	Florida Keys
	Saline prairie	Louisiana
	Upland longleaf pine	Louisiana
	Live oak-pine-magnolia	Louisiana
	Spruce pine-hardwood flatwoods	Louisiana
	Xeric sandhill woodlands	Louisiana
	Flatwood ponds	Louisiana
	Slash pine-pondcypress-hardwood	Louisiana
	Wet hardwood-loblolly pine	Louisiana

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