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2. Hammock - Wikipedia

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   Hammock with a lakeside view Hammock beside the beach. A hammock, from Spanish hamaca, borrowed from Taíno and Arawak hamaka, is a sling made of fabric, rope, or netting, suspended between two or more points, used for swinging, sleeping, or resting. It normally consists of one or more cloth panels, or a woven network of twine or thin rope ...

3. Tropical hardwood hammock - Wikipedia

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   Tropical hardwood hammocks also include the more open coastal rock barren and sinkhole communities as classified by the Florida Natural Areas Inventory. [2] Coastal rock barren is a rare community occurring in tiny patches in the Florida Keys. Sinkholes are found in areas of karst limestone, primarily in hammocks on the Miami Rock Ridge.

4. Hammock (ecology) - Wikipedia

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   Hammock is a term used in the southeastern United States for stands of trees, usually hardwood, that form an ecological island in a contrasting ecosystem. Hammocks grow on elevated areas, often just a few inches high, surrounded by wetlands that are too wet to support them.

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6. Everglades - Wikipedia

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   The Kissimmee River is a broad floodplain that empties directly into Lake Okeechobee, which at 730 square miles (1,900 km 2) with an average depth of 9 feet (2.7 m), is a vast but shallow lake. [23] Soil deposits in the Everglades basin indicate that peat is deposited where the land is flooded consistently throughout the year.

7. Southern coastal plain hydric hammock - Wikipedia

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   Hydric hammocks are found in scattered locations in Florida north of Lake Okeechobee, with concentrations along the upper St. Johns River, the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida, and particularly along the Big Bend section of the Gulf Coast of Florida, from Aripeka to St. Marks. [2]