Correct. Climate Change.
But plants have experienced climate change before and survived. Their secret? They migrate! What’s different today is that the best predictor of plant extinction is a plant species’ inability to migrate, a condition that exists with the loss of carriers: birds, insects, and animals and barriers: the use of asphalt and monocultures. “No carriers and too many barriers” can be solved by native plant enthusiasts assisting threatened species’ migrations with Wilson Gardens and random plantings here and there. Both the State and Federal Governments could assist, but they appear unmotivated to do so.
The Gardens’ sponsored SAM Project with WWU students found extinction levels highest the nearer to what substance:
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