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| | SOFIA - PP 1011 - Ecosystems of south Florida - Freshwater and Terrestrial - Pine forests |
 | | On the pine islands of the Big Cypress Swamp, where soils are neutral or alkaline, cabbage palm, wax myrtle, gallberry, and a variety of grasses and sedges are typical understory plants. |
 | | Spiders arc often conspicuous in the pines; major families in Everglades National Park are the jumping spiders, crab spiders, cobweb weavers, and the orb weavers (Hofstetter, 1973). |
 | | Pine forests are the most threatened of the major natural systems (Hofstetter, 1973), as a result of land clearing for agricultural or urban development. |
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