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Several types of [[freshwater biomes#ponds and lakes |]] lakes occur in the Gulf Coast Lowlands lake region, including coastal dune lakes, flatwood lakes, "edge lakes", river floodplain or oxbow lakes (Dead Lake), and reservoirs (Deer Point Lake).
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In this flatwood like habitat, pines dominate the overstory with a well-developed woody understory.
Piney Woods forests 2008
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Higher terraces become progressively older and more dissected; they are dominated by pine flatwoods, pine savanna, or prairie; flatwood wetlands are less extensive than on the lowest terrace.
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Pine flatwood vegetation was dominant in this area.
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In fact, this ecoregion is part of a mosaic of vegetation types that grade from long-leaf pine forests (or sandhill communities), to pine savannas, flatwood habitats (pine forests with woody understories), and xeric hardwood communities.
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The buffer area (outlined by blue in the above map) consists of approximately 5,600 acres of tidal marsh, scrub shrub, pine flatwood and wet pine savanna habitats.
Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi 2007
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The trees wasn't flat, the whole thing was flat, and that's why the call it flatwood.
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She, she, now I say flatwood 'cause it was back, way back, I have been there, and walked with her to her momma's house.
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Okay, uh, how many people that lived down in the flatwood, you had to walk out of there to blackground school?
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Where did she come from, did she come from down in flatwood, or she came from somewhere else?
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