When the diprotodon vanished, plants and shrubs across the outback grew unhindered.
Mr. Willis and Mr. Ruhfel are looking at which species are moving in to Concord to occupy niches vacated by vanished plants, and whether they come from "adjacent species pools," as Mr. Willis puts it.
And then, surrounded on all sides by his strange and vanishing plants, he took the voice of a loudspeaker announcer, politely calling us to the scene of a catastrophe.
Lakes shrink and vanish, plants wither, the forest turns brown.
Now, a study published in the internationally acclaimed journal Science has found that citizen action on behalf of vanishing plants and animals is crucial in ensuring they get the protection they need to survive.
Breaking a logjam that had all but stopped the Fish and Wildlife Service from listing new endangered species, the Bush administration promised quick action today to protect 29 vanishing plant and animal species, including some that are on the verge of extinction.
A5 World Briefing A6 SCIENCE/HEALTH Compromise on Species Policy The Bush administration promised quick action to protect 29 vanishing plant and animal species, including some on the verge of extinction.
They are also our dependents, unlike plants: "If we were to vanish tomorrow, the plants would be fine, but if the plants vanished... ..... Our dependence on plants breeds a contempt for them, Mancuso believes.
They are also our dependents, unlike plants: "If we were to vanish tomorrow, the plants would be fine, but if the plants vanished......
ON sunny days, Mengistu Melesse, a sad-eyed stick figure of a man, drags a hose in front of the limestone town house at 20 East 65th Street, for him a vaunted house turned haunted house, and nourishes the conifers his vanished benefactor, Irene Silverman, planted in more positive times.
