Tropical Hardwood Hammock Food Web

The tropical hardwood hammock is an ecosystem consisting of broad leafed trees shrubs and vines nearly all of which are native to the west indies with live oak quercus virginiana being the only significant temperate species.

Tropical hardwood hammock food web.

There are very few animals that live exclusively in hammocks but many animals take advantage of the relatively cool interior and slightly higher elevation provided by hammocks. Strangler fig this plant starts out as an epiphyte and attaches to a host tree usually a cabbage palm. Subject to thin soils and a tropical climate hardwood hammocks form a dense canopy with a tangle of shrubs and. Tropical hardwood hammocks provide habitat food water shelter and space for a variety of wildlife.

Powered by create your own unique website with customizable templates. Tropical hardwood hammocks provide food cover roosting and nesting sites to a wide variety of wildlife species. Vertebrate animal species typically found in tropical hardwood hammocks are found in table 1. Still the strangler fig fills an important niche and food source to many tropical forest hammock creatures.

The strangler fig sends out roots that tangle around the host and eventually strangles it.