The landscape was replenished with 30,000 plants rushed in from Florida and Puerto Rico.
Merchant generation companies, which build power plants, rushed there in the late 1990's, drawn by financial incentives.
In the early 1990s, palynologist Sarah Fowell at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and geologist Paul Olsen of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, found a rock layer rich in the spores of ferns--plants that rush in when the landscape is devastated--in southeastern Pennsylvania.
He had to rush home, he said, because it is planting season in Ethiopia.
"When a disaster occurs," she says, "there can be a rather unsavoury rush to plant the flag of your NGO in the nearest head of whoever's surviving".
Many Kiwis are in a rush to plant their own avo trees, either to supply their steady habit or to sell the highly valuable fruits: Earlier this year, the price of a single avocado peaked at NZ$7, or about $4.60 USD.
One such problem is an increase in nitrogen runoff as farmers rush to plant more corn to meet growing demand for ethanol.
Validation of the utility of this method in such approaches was provided by successful construction and 454 sequencing of cDNA from rhizome samples of two divergent plant species: scouring rush (fern ally, "primitive plant") and red rice (monocot, "advanced plant").
Moreover, phenological shifts in flowering/fruiting periods may severely affect the associated community of a plant (Miller-Rushing et al. 2010), particularly for interacting species such as obligate mutualistic partners.
