- Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Rookery Bay Reserve is at the northern end of the Ten Thousand Islands on the gulf coast of
Florida , "Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve" represents one of the few remaining undisturbedmangrove estuaries inNorth America . [ [http://nerrs.noaa.gov/RookeryBay/welcome.html National Estuarine Research Reserve System overview of Rookery Bay] , website accessed on 4 Nov 2006]The Rookery Bay and Ten Thousand Islands
ecosystem is a prime example of a nearly pristine subtropical mangrove forested estuary. Rookery Bay Reserve is located in the West Florida subregion of theWest Indian Biogeographic Region .ee also
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