Uniform Mitigation Assessment Method TRAINING MANUAL

Community Structure - 62-345.500(6)(c), FAC
1. Vegetation and Structural Habitat
VIII.Topographic features such as refugia ponds, creek channels, flats or
hummocks
Guidance: Topographic diversity offers a variety of forage and cover sites for wildlife, as well as a diversity of microhabitat for
the plant community. Forested wetlands generally have higher micro-topographic diversity, while herbaceous wetland tend to
exhibit less. Deeper areas that do not dry out during the dry season offer wildlife refugia within a wetland.
A refugia pond in the center of a forested wetland that holds
water during drier periods . (KCR)
Secondary stream channel in a forested riparian wetland, Lower
Suwannee River National Wildlife Refuge, June 2004 (EB).