“Some of the islands that we have visited before and saw nesting, now we see nothing.”
Florida biologists are closely monitoring how alligators in the Everglades are responding to rising global temperatures, and they’re concerned about what they’ve found so far.
What’s happening?
Scientists from the University of Florida “Croc Docs” team are studying threatened American alligators to help assess the impacts of rising global temperatures in the Everglades. The Miami Herald reported on the team, explaining that alligators are a good target species for this type of research because they are sensitive to environmental changes…