Describe the interaction between climate change and wetlands. How do wetlands play an important role in climate resilience?

Wetlands can convey resilience to our communities, providing many critical ecosystem services such as cleaning water, absorbing floodwaters, and providing habitat for wildlife. Despite their natural resilience and the natural benefits they provide, wetlands are vulnerable to many of the changes in our landscapes and weather patterns.

Climate change is predicted to increase flooding, drought, the number of high heat days, and the frequency of severe storms, all of which will affect wetlands. Wetlands are particularly vulnerable to changes in hydrology as they exist between fully aquatic and fully terrestrial ecosystems. Intermittent streams and small, isolated wetlands such as prairie potholes and ephemeral ponds  are likely to be particularly vulnerable due to changes in the timing and volumes of spring peak flows.

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