The impact of deforestation on the exchange of water vapor and carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the terrestrial land surface is the biggest concern with regard to the climate system, said Daley. Changes in their atmospheric concentration will have a direct effect on climate. Deforestation has decreased global vapor flows from land by 4 percent, according to a study published by the National Academy of Sciences.
Florida Wetlands are defined as: those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or ground water at a frequency and a duration sufficient to support, and under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soils.
These wetlands are generally found in and north of the vegetation tension zone. Marshes are dominated by herbaceous aquatic plants growing in shallow water that is seasonal to permanent. Emergent aquatic plants of shallow marshes include cattails, bulrushes, lake sedges, arrowheads and bur-reeds. swamp is any wetland that is dominated by woody vegetation (trees and/or shrubs), including lowland hardwood swamps, coniferous swamps, coniferous bogs, floodplain forests, alder thickets and shrub carrs.