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They found that local garden features like plant diversity and ground cover have a much stronger influence on pollinators than the surrounding urban environment. Their work shows that a lot of urban conservation is in the hands of gardeners and the choices they make.
Sexton and colleagues found four key factors were important in gardens: floral richness, vegetation height, bare soil availability, and woody plant richness. Floral richness isn’t simply about species,
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