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Salt marshes are found throughout Florida’s coastal areas, primarily along low-energy shorelines and in bays and estuaries. These ecosystems are characterized by daily tidal flooding and support many specially adapted salt-tolerant plants.
The coastal area known as Big Bend has the greatest salt marsh acreage in Florida, extending from Apalachicola Bay to Cedar Key. South of Cedar Key salt marshes begin to be replaced by mangroves as the predominant intertidal plants.
Salt marshes are the living and breathing epicenters of Florida's ecosystem. Hundreds of species, including us, depend on their ecological diversity and functions to fuel life in this region. We hope to protect these unique and vital places into the future at Big Talbot Island State Park.
Explore Florida's vital salt marshes, where land and sea intertwine. Discover rich biodiversity, from fiddler crabs to herons, in these coastal habitats. Learn how these marshes act as nature's filters, protecting shorelines and supporting unique ecosystems.
From Apalachicola Bay south to Tampa Bay, salt marshes are the main costal community. What are salt marshes? Salt marshes are natural saline soiled communities dominated by grasslands found on the border of saltwater bodies with tidally or non-tidally fluctuating inundation.
In order to achieve maximum protection for a newly created salt marsh from wave energy, increase biodiversity, and create a living shoreline, several different restoration projects are combined with salt marsh restoration.
Along the Atlantic coast of the United States, the salt marsh-tidal creek ecosystem occurs from Maine to Florida. It is, however, most abundant in the Southeast (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida).
Salt marshes are the living and breathing epicenters of Florida's ecosystem. Hundreds of species, including us, depend on their ecological diversity and functions to fuel life in this region. We hope to protect these unique and vital places into the future at Big Talbot Island State Park.
Florida’s dominant salt-marsh species are needle. rush ( Juncus roemerianus), the grayish-green, pointed rush oc-curring where tides reach higher levels; and smooth cord-grass (Spartina alterniflora) found in lower areas that are in-undated daily.
Salt marshes are found on the margins of many north Florida estuaries. They occur on low energy shore lines, at the mouth of rivers and bays.