Florida Bay

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Florida Bay is a shallow, subtropical estuarine lagoon at the southern tip of Florida, lying between the mainland and the Florida Keys and forming part of the Everglades and Florida Keys marine ecosystem.

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Florida Bay canonical 21
Florida Bay (part) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf estuarine lagoon
shallow coastal water body
subtropical lagoon
adjacentTo Everglades National Park
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
borderedBy Florida Keys
surface form: Florida Keys island chain

Florida Peninsula
surface form: Florida mainland
connectedTo Gulf of Mexico
Straits of Florida
country United States of America
surface form: United States
hasAverageDepth approximately 3 to 7 feet
less than 2 meters
hasClimate subtropical
hasEcosystemType coastal lagoon ecosystem
estuarine ecosystem
hasGeomorphology network of shallow basins and banks
hasHabitat mangrove fringes
mudflats
seagrass meadows
shallow banks
hasSalinity variable salinity
hasWaterType brackish water
isImportantFor bird habitat
commercial fishing
nursery grounds for marine species
recreational fishing
locatedBetween Florida Keys
Florida Peninsula
surface form: Florida mainland
locatedIn Florida
southern Florida
managedBy Everglades National Park
surface form: Everglades National Park authorities
partOf Everglades
surface form: Everglades ecosystem

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
surface form: Florida Keys marine ecosystem
supportsSpecies American crocodile
bottlenose dolphin
commercially important fish
manatee
pink shrimp
sea turtles
seagrass Halodule wrightii
seagrass Syringodium filiforme
seagrass Thalassia testudinum
spiny lobster
wading birds
threatenedBy altered freshwater inflows
climate change
hypoxia
nutrient pollution
sea-level rise
seagrass die-offs

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Florida Keys borderedBy Florida Bay
Taylor Slough flowsToward Florida Bay
Overseas Highway scenicView Florida Bay
Monroe County, Florida contains Florida Bay
this entity surface form: Florida Bay (part)
Key Largo borderedBy Florida Bay
Upper Keys borderedBy Florida Bay
Islamorada borderedBy Florida Bay
Everglades hasPart Florida Bay
Card Sound connectsTo Florida Bay
Card Sound ecologicallyConnectedTo Florida Bay
Cape Sable locatedOn Florida Bay
Key Largo, Florida waterBody Florida Bay
Whitewater Bay connectedTo Florida Bay
Windley Key borderedBy Florida Bay
Upper Matecumbe Key borderedBy Florida Bay