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When faced with conditions that are too dry, salty, or cold, most plants try to conserve resources. 

Protected areas — such as nature reserves, national parks, and wilderness areas — are essential to conserving biodiversity. 

During the last ice age, glaciers covered vast portions of North America.

Coral species exhibit different temperature tolerances. This is in part due to the composition of their microalgae symbionts. 

Seagrass beds are un­derwater oases. Now researchers have discovered vast amounts of sugars underneath seagrass meadows.