Increased Fertilizer Inputs into the Everglades System from Sugar Plantations

question 44

Multiple Choice

Increased fertilizer inputs into the Everglades system from sugar plantations and other agriculture have resulted in________________.

• A) an increase in cattails and a decrease in sawgrass
• B) a decrease in cattails and an increase in sawgrass
• C) a shift in cattails from being a core species to an edge species
• D) both A and C
• E) both B and C

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