
Soil Soil EEndemism and its ndemism and its IImportance to mportance to TTaxonomic axonomic PPedodiversityedodiversity 205
There are 102 vascular plant species endemic to WI, the distribution
of which is related more to specifi c habitat than to soil taxa and includes
cliffs (20 percent of endemic plants), prairies (20 percent), emergent aquatic
environments (13 percent), and sand dunes (12 percent of endemic plants).
On a county basis, there is a poor correlation (adjusted R
2
= 2.2%, p = 0.11)
between the number of endemic vascular plant species and the number of
endemic soil series. These fi ndings contrast with those from other studies.
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