Its floristic richness is primarily due to unique climatic and habitat heterogeneity, historical factors and the different origins of the flora itself (Quézel 1995).
GAS is a completely human-adapted organism and human strains of GCS/GCS are more likely to be related to their animal flora origins.
Earlier descriptions of the origin of Galapagos flora attributed the majority of the flora to have a Caribbean origin (Duncan and Hargraves 1984) as the result of ancient vicariance events.
(For information on the biota of the Antarctic islands see above Origin of the flora and fauna of the polar regions: The Antarctic region).
Most islands in the South Pacific are volcanic in origin, so their flora and fauna are derived from over-water dispersal.
The chemical magnitudes of the propolis are influenced by various aspects such as geographical site, seasonal diversification, flora origin, and collection time (year), which is responsible for the diverse pharmacological activities of the propolis [ 9].
A number of areas are identified for future research: elucidating the origins of the Icelandic flora, deriving palaeoclimatic data from the vegetation record, correlating terrestrial with marine and ice core records and expanding our understanding of the human impact on vegetation.
I just wonder if this strand – the scandal the priestesses are trying to hide, the secret of Flora's origins, a political thriller in bee world – is made clear enough to the reader.
As it sometimes is on the harder questions, the documentary tends to be frustratingly vague on Flora's origins, though the Web site for Mr. Balding's circus, circusflora.org, states that she was orphaned by ivory poachers.
Origins of the Galapagos flora are now thought to be quite diverse and include northern and southern Andes and other parts of South America, as well as Central America and the Caribbean (Tye and Francisco-Ortega 2011).
