Hammock Park

Hammock Park
11/16/16
Diane Oganesova
85 degrees (hot/humid)

Hardwood hammocks are the most abundant forest in FL! They are the only community that is expanding!

The biggest threats to Hammock park is litter, exotic plant species, floods, and a lot of sunlight.

Hammock parks are found on a more slightly elevated area. The difference between deciduous and evergreen is that: deciduous trees loses all of its leaves at once during season, and grow back during other seasons. While, evergreen has leaves year round, lose some, but new ones grow back right away.
Ex: Whitepine=evergreen, Oak tree=deciduous.

A few animals that can be spotted within a hammock community: barred owl, blue jay, osprey, ducks.

Hammock communities don't require too much sunlight. If that's the case, then how do plants deal with the low light conditions, you ask?
They learn to adapt to the atmosphere. All they need is water to grow, they can keep their leaves longer, and during parts of the year, different plants can be in season due to amount of sunlight being let in.

Hammocks are classified as dry (xeric), moist (mesic), or wet (hydric).
xeric contains little moisture.
mesic contains a moderate amount of moisture.
hydric contains very wet soil.

Hammocks tend to occur in locations where fire isn't as common, or where there's some sort of protection from fire within neighboring ecosystems.