We have not only seen an earlier break up of ice on rivers and melting glaciers, but also the early emergence of insects, egg laying by birds and the flowering of plants.

克拉克说，“我们不仅看到了冰河提前开冻，冰山融化，而且看到提前出现的昆虫、提前下蛋的鸟类和提前开花的植物。

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Two thousand of France's 4,200 species of flowering plants are found in the park.

法国的4200种开花植物中有2000种可以在这个公园里找到。

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Bees are a critical part of the food chain because flowering plants depend on insects for pollination and the honeybee is the most effective.

蜜蜂是食物链的重要组成部分，因为开花植物的授粉依赖于昆虫，而蜜蜂是最有效的授粉昆虫。

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The Park Service says the park has more kinds of flowering plants than any other national park in North America.

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There are more than one thousand six hundred kinds of flowering plants.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

What caused this diversification is not known for certain, but it coincides with the rise of the flowering plants, which is suggestive.

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That history reveals patterns, some of which, the domination of terrestrial flora by the flowering plants, for example, are vast in space and time.

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