[PCA] NEWS: Ecologists Use 70-Year-Old Pressed Plants to Chart City's Vanishing Native Flora
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Mar 28 07:18:19 CDT 2011
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110318091012.htm
Ecologists Use 70-Year-Old Pressed Plants to Chart City's Vanishing Native
Flora
ScienceDaily (Mar. 18, 2011) -- More than half of the world's population
now lives in cities, yet we know little about how urbanization affects
biodiversity. In one the first studies of its kind, ecologists in
Indianapolis, USA have used 70 year-old dried plant specimens to track the
impact of increasing urbanization on plants.
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