“…CDTFs exist in coastal lowlands, and low‐lying islands in the Florida Keys and northeastern Caribbean region which are dominated by a limestone substrate with shallow depth of unconsolidated soil (Byrne, 1972; Correll, 1979; Gillespie, 2006; Subedi, Hogan, et al., 2019; Subedi, Ross, et al., 2019). Though CDTFs are affected by salt spray (Murphy & Lugo, 1995), SLR seems to be impacting CDTFs the most, due to increases in flooding frequency and soil salinity (Ogurcak et al., 2019; Ross et al., 2019; Saha et al., 2018). Indeed, the relationship between the reduction of freshwater supply and the consequent saltwater intrusion is an important one, since CDTF species rely on freshwater and do not tolerate protracted salt water inundation, e.g., CDTF species in South Florida generally do not tolerate salt concentrations >10 ppt within their rooting zones (Subedi et al., 2020).…”