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.
Tropical hardwood hammock food web.
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Tropical hardwood hammocks provide food cover roosting and nesting sites to a wide variety of wildlife species.
Still the strangler fig fills an important niche and food source to many tropical forest hammock creatures.
Strangler fig this plant starts out as an epiphyte and attaches to a host tree usually a cabbage palm.
The strangler fig sends out roots that tangle around the host and eventually strangles it.
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.
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Tropical hardwood hammocks provide habitat food water shelter and space for a variety of wildlife.
Subject to thin soils and a tropical climate hardwood hammocks form a dense canopy with a tangle of shrubs and.