Like birds and mammals that eat the fish and insects, and you get trees and plants that begin to grow near the standing water that can't grow near the running water.

就像鸟类和哺乳动物吃鱼和昆虫，你可以看到树木和植物开始在静水附近生长，而不能生长在流动的水附近。

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This is why food does not grow in plenty and humans have learned to rely upon artificial fertilizers to force the plants to grow.

这就是为什么粮食不能大量生长的缘故，而人类已经学会了依赖人造化肥来迫使植物生长。

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Plants don't do that but they create a field which for the others to grow in it is not comfortable and that is why they don't grow.

植物不会这么干但是他们会创建一个让其它植物不舒服的环境，来阻止其生长。

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Experts are trying to learn how to grow and protect some of the very unusual plants that live in Haleakala.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

Their findings could help to engineer plants that grow better and more effectively in conditions with higher levels of carbon dioxide.

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A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well.

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Warmer conditions on the tundra trigger a cascade of change, including converting its lush but short green carpet into a taller shag, since warmer soils and deeper thaw enable taller, woody plants to grow and thrive on the tundra.

CNN: Next global warming worry: Thawing tundra

They look at a forest or a desert and they track rainfall patterns, or air and soil temperatures, what plants grow there and who eats what.

NPR: Warming Will Create Micro-Climates, Scientists Say

There, the trees would feed the slaves, who had been brought from Africa to cut the sugarcane, which itself had been brought long ago from Asia to produce the sugar that was shipped to England and stirred into tea, itself shipped from China, unless Banks could get someone to steal the tea plants and grow them elsewhere-maybe Calcutta?

NPR: Excerpt: 'Natives and Exotics'