Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio,^1,*,** Jennifer Navarra,^2,*** Hanna Rosner-Katz,^3,**** Candice Knothe<sup>4,*****

1</sup>Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL 32816
²Zero Waste Advocacy and Solid Resource Management, Hilo, HI 96720
³Plant Conservation Program, Lake Wales Ridge State Forest, Frostproof, FL 33843
⁴Polk County Parks and Natural Resources Division, 4399 Winter Lake Road, Lakeland, FL 33803

^*Corresponding author: pedro.quintana-ascencio@ucf.edu
^**Pedro F Quintana Ascencio is a professor at the Department of Biology at UCF where he teaches statistics. He has a PhD from The University of New York at Stony Brook. His main academic interest is understanding the effects of disturbances and spatial structure of the habitat on species persistence.
^***Jennifer Navarra holds a Master degree from the University of Central Florida. She was a biologist in the Lake Wales Ridge Forest during the initial portion of this project. Jennifer currently works with the zero waste movement in Hawaii where she focus in the needs for system level changes to address our society's waste problem.
^****Hanna Rosner-Katz holds a Master's degree in Landscape Ecology. She was a biologist within the Florida Plant Conservation Program working at the Lake Wales Ridge State Forest. Hanna is now a research botanist with the Florida Natural Area Inventory and also works as the Florida Plant Rescue Coordinator in cooperation with the Center for Plat Conservation.
^*****Candice Knothe has a B.S. from the University of Central Florida. She previously worked as plant conservation biologist with the Florida Forest Service at the Lake Wales Ridge State Forest. She is currently working with Polk County Parks and Natural Resources as an Environmental Lands Stewardship Coordinator.