As a colonisation strategy, dispersal by ocean current would be unreliable with vent systems so scarce, most of the larva swept out to sea would presumably perish but plenty of plants on land adopt a similar approach using the wind.The research offers more than just an insight into the life cycle of subsea gribblies.
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Aase's story will no doubt chime with many European entrepreneurs who get let down by short-sighted government backed funds, which they must often turn to when private capital is so scarce outside of major centres like London, Paris or Berlin.
She is a street peddler now in a collapsed society, where a surreal annual inflation rate of 100,000percentt speedily melts money into nothing, and essential commodities are so scarce that bars of soap are sliced up to be sold by the chunk and cooking oil is traded by the tablespoon.
But with women so scarce, a cloud of suspicion was there.
Many are dumbfounded that, seven years later, it remains so scarce, despite billions of dollars in American aid.
In some states, pipeline capacity is so scarce that much of the natural gas coming from wells is simply burned as waste.
A little over a year ago, surrounded by the raging Syrian civil war, food was so scarce that some of Yarmouk's 18,000 residents were forced to eat roots and herbs.
Affordable housing has become so scarce in lots of areas that many families struggle with unaffordable rents or substandard living conditions because that's all they can afford.
In a related paper†, the authors look at Manhattan, where free land is so scarce that the cost of a new unit of housing is simply that of adding an extra floor to a building.
