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Florida: Land-use classifications of vegetational habitats

vital landscape statistics (1985-89) 

Surface features:

      11% of Florida is hardwood forests

      11% is freshwater marsh wetland

      11% is Urban or barren

      16% is farmland

      21% wetland

      11% is open water

70% is dominated by five land-use patterns

 


Extent of natural vegetation in proportion to area of the state and to characteristic ecological communities in Florida

Source: Florida Natural Areas Inventory
 % of the state  #  Land Cover type
   1  Coastal strand
   2  Dry Prairie
17
3  Pinelands
   4  Sand Pine Scrub
 2
 5  Sandhill
   6  Xeric Oak Scrub
   7  Mixed Hardwood Pine Forest
6
  8 Upland Hardwood Forest
    9 Tropical Hardwood Hammock
1
 10 Coastal Salt Marsh
7
 11 Freshwater Marsh
   12 Cypress Swamp
5
 13 Mixed Hardwood Swamp
   14 Bay [trees] Swamp
   15 Shrub Swamp
   16 Mangrove Swamp
   17 Hardwood Forest
11
 18 Open Water
16
19 Grasslands & farm lands
10
20 Shrub and bush land
  21 Exotic Plants
11
22 Barren & Urban land 


Acreage

34,807,108 acres excluding waters equal to 1,510 square miles.

39,086,870 total acres including open waters of the state.

54,386 square miles.

Population growth