Southeast: Getting to Know the NEON Domains
This blog series explores each of the 20 NEON ecoclimate domains and the field sites within them.
If you like it hot and steamy, NEON’s Southeast Domain (D03) is for you. This diverse subtropical Domain is home to an estimated 5 million alligators, more than 40 million people, and, of course, the world's most famous mouse.
With field sites at the Disney Wilderness Preserve, The Jones Center at Ichauway, and the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station, NEON's Southeast Domain provides a model for collaboration between industry, academia, and large-scale research infrastructures to further ecological and conservation research.
Defining the Southeast Domain
Click on the map to explore the Southeast Domain
The Southeast Domain encompasses most of Florida; the Gulf Coast regions of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi; and portions of Georgia and South Carolina. This is the Coastal Plains region of the southeastern U.S., with a mix of lowland, wetland and coastal ecosystems bordering the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic.
The climate of D03 is humid subtropical, with steamy summers and mild winters. Late summer and fall bring tropical storms and often hurricanes, sometimes catastrophic. This balmy environment supports high levels of biodiversity, with more than 1,800 endemic plant species and iconic animal species like the American Alligator and Nine-Banded Armadillo.
Science at the House of Mouse with The Nature Conservancy
An Ongoing Partnership with UF at the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station
Research, Conservation, and Education at The Jones Center at Ichauway
The National Ecological Observatory Network is a major facility fully funded by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
