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Climate change is impacting the Everglades in so many ways. My research on flocculent organic matter touched on this in relation to carbon, however, in this video, I touched on general topics associated with climate change and their impacts on the Everglades. #scientist #researcher #climatechange #everglades #stem
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How climate change is affecting the Everglades. So I'm a scientist at tier research in the Everglades, and the Everglades is currently experiencing rank extreme drought during the dry season. Now this is caused by changes in rainfall patterns and also hotter temperatures, which in line affects plants and their productivity affecting wildlife as well. On top of that, climate change also causes sea level rise, which leads to saltwater intrusion affecting freshwater plants such as sawgrass and its productivity. Another thing that climate change causes is nutrient imbalance, which also fuels invasive plant species to take over the Everglades.