Railways Facilitate Dispersal Of Plants As Well As People
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 04:30
in Biology & Nature
Just as railway lines help people move from one place to another, so too do they appear to facilitate migration of plants, according to the findings of four collaborators from France's Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. The researchers investigated whether railways--or, more specifically, railway edges--help connect plant communities in urban areas by providing routes of dispersal through inhospitable city environments. read more