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It is located within the Ordway Swisher Biological Station (OSBS), a 38.5 km2 (9500 acre) property owned and managed by the University of Florida as a biological research center. The OSBS site is managed to maintain intact longleaf pine ecosystem, one of the historically dominant forest types in the region. It is encompassed within the NEON Southeast Domain that is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Gulf of Mexico to the west. The Domain features a patchwork of forest, grassland, and wetland communities embedded in a matrix that is increasingly dominated by a fast-growing human population. The Domain hosts five other NEON field sites, including three aquatic and two additional terrestrial sites, located in Florida and Georgia. OSBS is colocated with two aquatic field sites, Barco Lake (BARC) and Suggs Lake (SUGG).","citation":null,"relatedIdentifiers":null,"status":{"label":"Operational","uri":"http:\/\/vocabs.lter-europe.net\/elter_cl\/10772"},"yearEstablished":2014,"yearClosed":null,"relatedSites":[{"typeOfRelationship":{"label":"contains","uri":"null"},"listOfSites":[{"type":"site","title":"Lake Barco NEON - United States of America","id":{"prefix":"https:\/\/deims.org\/","suffix":"fc3606ae-df89-4e21-96df-cc380bb0d89d"},"changed":"2025-09-17T15:23:05+0200"},{"type":"site","title":"Lake Suggs NEON - United States of America","id":{"prefix":"https:\/\/deims.org\/","suffix":"ff8f509e-f06b-4d62-bd64-d53241fceee2"},"changed":"2025-09-17T15:24:43+0200"}]}],"siteName":"Ordway-Swisher Biological Station NEON","shortName":"OSBS","siteType":"Platform","protectionLevel":null,"landUse":null,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/deims.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-06\/tower.jpg","alt":"Technicians on the tower"}]},"environmentalCharacteristics":{"airTemperature":{"yearlyAverage":20.9,"monthlyAverage":null,"unit":"\u00b0C","referencePeriod":null},"precipitation":{"yearlyAverage":1302,"monthlyAverage":null,"unit":"mm","referencePeriod":null},"biogeographicalRegion":null,"biome":"evergreen_forest","ecosystemType":[{"label":"Evergreen Forest","uri":null},{"label":"Forest","uri":null}],"eunisHabitat":null,"landforms":null,"geoBonBiome":["Terrestrial"],"geology":"The Ordway Preserve is located in the Northern Highlands portion of Putnam County, where it sits atop roughly 4000 feet of limestone, dolomite, and anhydrite formations. The Miocene-aged Hawthorn Group is overlain by the Cypresshead Formation, which was laid down during the Pliocene and consists of sand, mud, and clay. Above the Cypresshead Formation, belonging to the recent age, are the quartz sands recognizable as the soil of Ordway. They have many karst features and are often described as belonging to the Anastasia Formation.","hydrology":"The Ordway Preserve is dotted with numerous sinkhole lakes. Some lakes fill via overland flow and surface water, while others are connected to ground water. The result is many highly diverse dark water lakes, contrasted with the less diverse clear groundwater lakes. The site experiences significant rainfall during the rainy season, contributing greatly to the water level of the clear water sites. The dark water lakes have a connected flow from the southwest corner of the site to the northeast. Much of the water ends up in the Mill Creek Swamp and Ashley and Harry Prairies.","soils":"The NEON-commissioned soil megapit revealed Entisol-order soils that are uncoated, Typic Quartzipsamments. Soils at OSBS are primarily well-drained and sandy, but low-lying areas near lakes and swamps can have relatively deep layers of organic soils.","vegetation":"Ordway-Swisher is dominated by pine and turkey oak (Quercus laevis) vegetation with a grass and forb groundcover. Pines are primarily Longleaf Pines (Pinus palustris Mill.) and Lobolly (P. taeda), and the dominant perennial grass is wiregrass (Aristida stricta Michx.). 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