Florida’s mangroves are making a move north - Environment - MiamiHerald.com

There are many changes taking place due to the effects of climate change and this is one of them. We are witnessing some significant differences in how things were in the natural world. Some are benign, some are not. Click title for link.

From South Florida to St. Augustine, mangroves are making moves up Florida’s Atlantic coast, chewing up salt marshes in the latest indicator of global climate change. But scientists say the ecological consequences may not be harmful.“There are plenty of examples of climate change having a negative impact, but this is something very different,” said Kyle Cavanaugh, a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. “Here we have one important, highly productive coastal system — in this case, salt marshes — being replaced by another very important, highly productive coastal system — mangroves.