Also included are marine seagrass plants in the Florida panhandle region. This database covers southeast Florida. Artificial reefs are structures placed in the aquatic environment to provide a habitat for marine life. They are comprised of man-made and natural materials. Benthic communities in the Everglades region of south Florida.
Benthic communities are ecological environments of the sub-aqueous bottom.
These environments include coral, seagrass, bare bottom, hard bottom, tidal flats, mangroves, and saltmarsh. These environments include seagrass, bare bottom, hard bottom, tidal flats, mangroves, and saltmarsh. Florida Land Use Classification System. Contains freshwater marsh, saltwater marsh, mangrove swamps, oyster bars, and tidal flats from Tampa Bay south to Charlotte Harbor. A specific code equals mangrove.