From the critically imperiled Big Pine partridge pea to the jumping prickly apple, any number of coastal species in the Florida Keys could be wiped out next in one of the places most vulnerable to sea level rise. And unlike the Key Largo cacti, which survives, if only barely, elsewhere, several of them are the last of their kind.
But this event still highlights another aspect of loss due to climate change, and it’s worth marking.
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But this event still highlights another aspect of loss due to climate change, and it’s worth marking.