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Increased salinity in water that American crocodiles navigate influences their health, breeding behavior, and ultimately, survival, a new study shows.
Researchers mapped out the status of their population over the last 40 years in response to changes in the Florida Everglades.
Considered a key wildlife indicator, the health of the American crocodile will continue to tell us whether water restoration efforts that began in the late 1980s benefit crocodiles. Those restoration efforts began as part of a $14.8 billion Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project to bring back more natural conditions in the Florida Everglades.
“Crocodiles may look burly and resilient, and we think of them as ancient dinosaurs, but they are vulnerable to changes in the environment, including human-caused changes to their natural ecosystem,” says Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, a research biologist who works at the Croc Docs Laboratory at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultur ....

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