Tropical Hardwood Hammocks of the Interior of Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve
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Title:
Tropical Hardwood Hammocks of the Interior of Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve Report T-604
Creator:
South Florida Natural Resources Center/South Florida Research Center, Everglades National Park
Ingrid C. Olmsted
Lloyd L. Loope
Charles E. Hilsenbeck
Place of Publication:
Homestead
Florida
Publisher:
National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
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Abstract:
At the southern tip of peninsular Florida and in the Florida Keys, the vegetation includes tropical hardwood forests similar in species composition to coastal hardwood forests of most Caribbean islands. The land that this vegetation occurs on is above the level subjected to seasonal inundation. These tropical forests, at their northern limit in Florida, are relatively impoverished in number of species, but as a result of higher precipitation the trees are generally more luxuriant and larger in size than their Caribbean counterparts (Robertson, 1955). Phillips (1940) pointed out that 82% of the 128 vascular plant species in one somewhat typical hammock occur also in the West Indies, while few occur in the United States outside Florida. As pointed out by obertson (1955), the tropical hardwood forest vegetation of southern Florida falls within the category "Evergreen Seasonal Forest" in the classification of Beard (1944, 1955). ( English )

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Source Institution:
Florida International University
Holding Location:
South Florida Natural Resource Center
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Resource Identifier:
I 29.95:T-604 ( sudoc )