Florida’s mangroves head northwards

Climate News Network: The mangroves of Florida are on the move. Mangrove forests in the north of the state have doubled in area in the last 28 years, thanks not to global warming as such, but because the number of sharply frosty days has dropped. The discovery is in itself not a surprise – mangrove growth is limited by temperature – but once again it confirms a pattern of climate change and species migration in response to man-made global warming. Kyle Cavanaugh and colleagues report in the Proceedings of the National......

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