To generate a draft genome for pennycress, a natural population of plants was isolated from a roadside near Coates, Minnesota called MN106.
Wild daffodils still occur across most of England and Wales, from Cornwall to Essex and Cumbria, in isolated pockets, nature reserves and roadside verges.
Impunity is another problem facing those Guarani Indians isolated on reservations and in roadside slums, who may never see justice done for the murders and harassment orchestrated by ranchers.
It's funny, here are two beacons in a dry desert, both isolated by several hours' drive through a dusty roadside scarred with abandoned amusement parks and wrecked-roofed trading posts, and they could not be more different.
An isolated pocket of Joshua Tree National Park in California contains a roadside sign that says, simply, "Fried Liver Wash"–a highway marker that is so bizarre and delightful that you won't care to investigate its meaning.
He noted that Maoists often used roadside bombs, forcing police patrols to abandon vehicles and walk through isolated forests — an ineffective response.
Targets for restoration were sites that (i) adjoined remnant vegetation, (ii) incorporated isolated paddock trees and (iii) created connections between vegetated areas by enhancing or widening roadside vegetation and creek lines (Thomas 2009).
We investigated the extent to which removal of trees, from roadsides within the wider landscape, affected the total number of successful dispersers in any given year and the number of breeding woodlands that became isolated through time.
