Ecosystems

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Everglade salt marsh

Biotic

Plants and Producers

Herbs

forbs

common reed

Phragmites

Sedges

Cyperus

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Animals

Fiddler Crab

Herbivore crab that excavate complex burrows that aerate the soil.

Prey

Periwinkle Snail

Predators

Mink are semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals and are listed as a threatened animal

Snail Kite commonly lives in tropical marshes and primarily eats snails and is also is endangered and commonly die to boat propeller.

Producers

Spartina alterniflora

Mud Algee

Fish

Gambusi

Perch

Human impacts and how to stop it

The way to restore the the ecosystem from our impacts is redirect the water from flowing to the gulf and ocean to areas that need it for environmental restoration.

Now non-native species have started to take over the Everglade due to the changes we made and they are starting to kill off animals that are native to the area.

Water diversions and flood control projects have cut water flows and connections between the wetlands and throughout the Everglade.

The size has severely decreased

Abiotic Land Scape

Small Pebbles and rocks on marsh floor

Small flat Islands

Water