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  2. South Florida rocklands - Wikipedia

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    The pine rocklands are a critically imperiled ecosystem located in southern Florida, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Cuba.Its location in south Florida and throughout the Caribbean Archipelago straddles the southern and northern ends of the temperate and tropical flora ranges, respectively. [4]

  3. Miami Rock Ridge - Wikipedia

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    The globally imperiled pine rockland community, which also encompassed the Florida Keys and The Bahamas, supported numerous endemic plant species; 20 percent occur nowhere else in the world. [7] The communities of the Miami Rock Ridge are maintained by wildfires, including natural fires caused by lightning strikes; this affects the vegetation ...

  4. Ummidia richmond - Wikipedia

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    The specific name richmond is taken from the endangered pine rockland habitat around Naval Air Station Richmond, [2] and is now known as the Richmond Tract.

  5. Tropical hardwood hammock - Wikipedia

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    The Key deer is restricted to pine rocklands and tropical hardwood hammocks on Big Pine Key. Both the Key Largo cotton mouse and the Key Largo woodrat are endemic to tropical hardwood hammocks on Key Largo in the upper Florida Keys. The Stock Island tree snail is historically known only from hammocks on Stock Island and Key West.

  6. Pine rocklands - Wikipedia

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  7. List of invasive species in the Everglades - Wikipedia

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    While pine rocklands are maintained by fire, Burma reed can reach 12 feet (3.7 m) tall and burns so hot and high—flames can reach 30 feet (9.1 m)—that it can eradicate the native Pinus elliottii var. densa or slash pine. It spreads prolifically; one plant can produce 120,000 seeds. [21] [24] [30] [31] Hydrilla verticillata

  8. Brickellia mosieri - Wikipedia

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    It is mainly endemic to Pine Rocklands, found on the Miami Rock Ridge in central and southern Miami-Dade County - right outside of the everglades national park. Currently, the Florida brickell-bush ranges from approximately Kendall to Florida City. It is believed to occur at 17 different sites, with an additional 5 sites where it possibly occurs.

  9. Everglades National Park - Wikipedia

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    Miami-Dade County was once covered in 186,000 acres (290.6 sq mi; 752.7 km 2) of pine rockland forests, but most of it was harvested by the lumber industry. [30] Pineland ecosystems (or pine rocklands) are characterized by shallow, dry sandy loam over a limestone substrate covered almost exclusively by slash pines (Pinus elliottii var. densa).