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What plants we tolerate in our urban parks

A study about urban parks has found that "Increasing human population is significantly related to decreasing native species and increasing nonnative species...Higher levels of human disturbances such as trampling, air pollution, or arson have more of a destructive effect on native species.” The goal to feature biodiversity in the urban wilderness fails as only tough and introduced plants survive the “repeated human disturbances”.

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