Hammock Park is located in Dunedin, Fl. We visited the park on november 18th, 2016. The weather was cool and dry. The main ecosystem that you can find at Hammock Park would be the hardwood hammock. The hammock area covers almost all light from touching the ground, so the plants their have to adapt by climbing up the trees (Vines) or reserving their nutrients so they can grow as soon as they are able to get some light. At Hammock Park there was first 336 species of plant life between 100 different plant families found , but since then they have identified 20 more. Some of these species are oaks, palm, saw grass, live oak, hickory, wax myrtle, ferns, and wild coffee. They also have a butterfly garden, where you can see many different types of butterflies. Another popular animal you would see is birds like, osprey, woodpecker, blue herons, and mockingbirds. here are some of the plants I saw:
Hardwood hammocks rarely burn, and is the fastest growing ecosystem in Florida. there are three different types of hardwood hammocks as well, mesic (moist), hydric (wet), and xeric (dry). Some threats to the park and this ecosystem would be development, air potato, rosery pea, and fire is not good so dry conditions would be a bad thing.
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