Lake Okeechobee
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Lake Okeechobee is Florida's largest lake
Lake Okeechobee is located on the south-central portion of the Florida peninsula at latitudes 27o 12'N to 26o 40'N and longitudes 81o 07'W to 80o 37'W.
Lake Okeechobee is nationally recognized as supporting high quality largemouth bass and black crappie fisheries.
- Aquatic plant communities benefit fish by providing spawning habitat,
Abiotic
- Some abiotic factors of a lake are water, the rocks that may be nearby, sand, soil, and nutrients.
Most Florida lakes formed by dissolution of limestone bedrock, subsequent groundwater flow into subterranean caverns, and collapse of surface layers. 7800 lakes greater than 1 acre; most are small, shallow, and in central, sandy ridge part of state; Okeechobee produced by an uplifted sea-floor depression, is by far the largest.
Trophic (nutrient) status varies; most lakes are poorly to moderately supplied with nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients and have low to medium densities of microalgae and aquatic plants.
Biotic
American alligator: Alligator mississippiensis
American Coot: Fulica americana
American lotus: Nelumbo luteas
Bald eagle: Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Banana water lily: Nymphaea mexicana
Bladderwort: Genus Utricularia
Buttonbush: Cephalanthus occidentalis
Eastern mud snake: Farancia abacura abacura
Eastern newt: Notophthalmus viridescens
Florida green water snake: Nerodia floridana
Fragrant water lily: Nymphaea odorata
Great egret: Casmerodius albus
Green Heron: Butorides virescens
Pickerelweed: Pontederia cordata
Pied-billed grebe: Podilymbus podiceps
Pond cypress: Taxodium ascendens
Bald Eagle
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Accipitriformes
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Haliaeetus
Species: H. leucocephalus