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The 2008 Terrestrial Vegetation Of Biscayne National Park Fl, Usa Derived From Aerial Photography, Ndvi, And Lidar, Pablo L. Ruiz, Patricia A. Houle, Michael S. Ross

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Established as a National Park in 1980, Biscayne National Park (BISC) comprises an area of nearly 700 km2 , of which most is under water. The terrestrial portions of BISC include a coastal strip on the south Florida mainland and a set of Key Largo limestone barrier islands which parallel the mainland several kilometers offshore and define the eastern rim of Biscayne Bay. The upland vegetation component of BISC is embedded within an extensive coastal wetland network, including an archipelago of 42 mangrove-dominated islands with extensive areas of tropical hardwood forests or hammocks. Several databases and vegetation maps describe these …