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Despite its range, the pine rocklands are limited in distribution. [4] Urban development, agricultural expansion, and extreme fragmentation since the late 1800s have severely reduced the extent of its range. Of the original estimated 65,450 ha of Miami-Dade County pine rockland, around 920 ha, or 2%, remain outside of Everglades National Park. [7]
In Miami-Dade, the higher-elevation pine rocklands are more resilient to rising seas because the oolitic limestone ridge is a figurative life raft for these rare forests.
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 ...
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).
In both Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys, cooperation with landowners of tropical hardwood hammocks is essential to the long-term protection of this natural community. In 1979, Dade County enacted the Environmentally Endangered Lands Covenant Program which reduces taxes for owners of tropical hardwood hammocks and pine rocklands who agree ...
South Dade theme park’s concept flies in the face of what Zoo Miami stands for: habitat preservation | Opinion
The most significant feature of the pine rockland ecosystem is the South Florida slash pine (Pinus elliotti var densa; also called Dade County pine) that reaches a height of 22 feet (6.7 m). Pine rockland communities require fire for maintenance; they have adapted to promote and resist fire at the same time. [50]
Miami-Dade County has “the right to say we have our own standards” — and, indeed, it does. On Tuesday, she said she will propose that the county rescind the Miami Wilds lease based on the ...