Unit Word: BOLD Required Topics: RED
Everglade salt marsh
Biotic
Plants and Producers
Herbs
forbs
common reed
Phragmites
Sedges
Cyperus
cumbungi
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
