Florida Bay

Florida Bay is the large shallow lagoon between the southern end of the Florida mainland (the Florida Everglades) and the Florida Keys, a long series of small islands.^[1] The Bay is significant for its ecology of sea grass and the organisms that live there.^[2]

Nearly all of Florida Bay is included in Everglades National Park. The southern edge, along the Florida Keys is in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Outside the Bay is the northern part of the Keys, and outside them is the Florida Reef, the only barrier coral reef in North America.^[3]

↑ Florida Bay, Encyclopædia Britannica Online
↑ The ecology of Florida Bay Archived 2020-12-13 at the Wayback Machine, by Daniel Phirman
↑ Diersing, Nancy (2009). "Coral reef evaluation & monitoring" (PDF). PDF. NOAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2009-08-24.

[1] Florida Bay, Encyclopædia Britannica Online

[2] The ecology of Florida Bay Archived 2020-12-13 at the Wayback Machine, by Daniel Phirman

[evaluation-3] Diersing, Nancy (2009). "Coral reef evaluation & monitoring" (PDF). PDF. NOAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2009-08-24.

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