The Florida Everglades, located near the southern of Florida, is one of the largest wetlands in the world. Several hundred years ago, this wetlands was a major part of a 5,184,000 acre watershed that covered almost a third of the entire state of Florida. The Everglades consist of a shallow sheet of fresh water that rolls slowly over the lowlands and through billions of blades of sawgrass.
Vegetation:
Sawgrass marshes are the dominant vegetation community, which compromise approximately 65 to 70 percent of the total vegetation coverage of the Everglades. Sawgrass, which is a sedge, can occur in pure dense or sparse complexes or mixed with other sedges, grasses, small shrubs, attached to floating plants. Wet prairies comprise the second most abundant vegetation community. Wet prairies often form the transition zones between the sawgrass communities.
Climate:
The climate of the Everglades is semitropical. Thus the Everglades has palms and tropical plants. The region experiences two main-wet (summer) and dry (winter).
Natural Disasters:
The hurricane seasons the state of Florida experiences is mainly in summer and early autumn, and drought conditions may occur during the spring season. Periodic fires, ignited by lightning, help to maintain the grassland habitat by limiting invasion of woody brush and trees.
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