Subtropical lowlands

Swamps & Bayous

Slow water, hanging moss, alligators in the cypress shadows. Older than the dinosaurs that drowned in them.

Species

70,000

Plant species

6,000

Endangered

27%

Pressure

Louisiana losing wetlands at ~1 football field per 100 minutes

Surprise of the day

The bayou's gar fish have lungs and can survive in water with almost no oxygen — a holdover from Devonian fish.

Who eats who

Apex predators on top. Energy flows down.

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