what are the main causes of mangrove loss in florida?
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Mangroves are victims of dredging, filling, and diking, water pollution from oil spills and herbicides, and urban development within the state of Florida.
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Hurricanes generate strong winds that can completely defoliate forest canopies and cause dramatic structural changes in wooded ecosystems. Animals can either be killed by hurricanes or impacted indirectly through changes in habitat and food availability caused by high winds, storm surge, and intense rainfall.
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['Resource Depletion.', 'Pollution.', 'Loss of Biodiversity.']
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The earth's biodiversity is in grave danger. ... Habitat destruction is a major cause of biodiversity loss. Habitat loss is caused by deforestation, overpopulation, pollution, and global warming. Species that are physically large and those living in forests or oceans are more affected by habitat reduction.
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Running water is the leading cause of soil erosion, because water is abundant and has a lot of power. Wind is also a leading cause of soil erosion because wind can pick up soil and blow it far away. Activities that remove vegetation, disturb the ground, or allow the ground to dry are activities that increase erosion.
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Snail Kite. ... The Florida race of this bird, formerly called Everglades Kite, is now endangered. Conservation status. The Florida population is endangered; disruption of water flow (with impact on habitat and snail populations) is the main cause.
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Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Plant Industry. Giant African land snails (GALS) could be devastating to Florida agriculture and natural areas because they cause extensive damage to tropical and subtropical environments. GALS are illegal to import into the U.S. without a permit.
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['swamps, marshes.', 'billabongs, lakes, lagoons.', 'saltmarshes, mudflats.', 'mangroves, coral reefs.', 'bogs, fens, and peatlands.']
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Invasive ficus roots cause big problems for neighbor hood lawns and sprinkler lines in Florida. Offering the world a wall of glossy green leaves, it wraps around subdivisions and marches in neat flat lines down miles of roadway, dominating and cloaking local scenery.
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South Florida does have levees, canals and other systems for reducing the impacts of flooding. For example, there are levees that prevent the Everglades from flooding nearby dry land. But there is still little shielding the city from the ocean and the path of ocean hurricanes.
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Most are caused by human activity, especially clearing lands for farming. The fires themselves are destructive and devastating, but their primary cause is more concerning, says Ane Alencar, the director of science at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM).
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['deepwater swamps.', 'freshwater marsh.', 'playa lakes.', 'riparian wetlands.', 'saline and brackish marsh.']
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The Everglades is Miami's subtropical wilderness. Made up of 1.5 million acres of marshes, mangroves and wetlands, it is home to tropical plants, birds, alligators and endangered, exotic wildlife.
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After 16 Months Of Dead Fish, Manatees And Dolphins, Florida's Red Tide Ebbs. Dead fish washed up on Florida beaches during an outbreak of red tide along the Gulf Coast. ... But in the past few weeks, monitoring conducted by marine scientists shows that the red tide bloom is finally disappearing.
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Mangrove forests are tropical and subtropical ecosystem characterized by the presence of plant species adapted to high temperatures and organic matter content, and fluctuating salinities and oxygen conditions. Mangroves provide ecosystem services of great social, economic and environmental importance.
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Florida wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bayheads, bogs, cypress domes and strands, sloughs, wet prairies, riverine swamps and marshes, hydric seepage slopes, tidal marshes, mangrove swamps and other similar areas.
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['Infrastructure failures. ... ', 'Development and infrastructure in flood-prone areas. ... ', 'Deforestation. ... ', 'Impermeable surfaces. ... ', 'Bridge constriction. ... ', 'Flood embankments. ... ', 'Climate change.']