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2. Tropical hardwood hammock - Wikipedia

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   Tropical hardwood hammock is not a fire maintained community, although fire may burn into tropical hardwood hammocks under certain conditions. Soils in tropical hardwood hammocks are primarily composed of organic material which has accumulated directly on top of mineral substrate, and are moist but rarely inundated. Five major types of hammocks ...

3. Hammock (ecology) - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, tropical hardwood hammocks are found in southern Florida. Sub-types of hammocks in southern Florida include rockland hammocks on the Miami Rock Ridge and in the Big Cypress National Preserve, Keys rockland hammocks in the Florida Keys, coastal berm hammocks in the Florida Keys and along the north shore of Florida Bay, tree island hammocks in the Everglades, shell mound ...

4. South Florida rocklands - Wikipedia

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   These fires help curb hardwood encroachment, spur pine regeneration, and allow light to reach the herbaceous layer. [24] [25] In the absence of fire, hardwood species from nearby hardwood hammocks invade and shade out natural vegetation. As the density of hardwood species increases, fire effectiveness decreases due to the increase in humidity ...

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6. Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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   The base, constructed in an area which habituated the hammock, built numerous buildings and launch-pads to aid in war efforts. [8] By the year 2000, the refuge had started plans for a project to remove unnecessary buildings and asphalt pavement from areas that had once been hardwood hammock.

7. Geography and ecology of the Everglades - Wikipedia

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   Islands of trees featuring dense temperate or tropical trees are called tropical hardwood hammocks. [38] They may rise between 1 and 3 feet (0.30 and 0.91 m) above water level in freshwater sloughs, sawgrass prairies, or pineland. These islands illustrate the difficulty of characterizing the climate of the Everglades as tropical or subtropical.