LA, a surprise nature hotspot, is home to one of the biggest biodiversity studies

Edit The Guardian 15 Apr 2016
@rorycarroll72. Los Angeles – synonymous with cars, concrete and urban sprawl – turns out to possess a secret, thriving underworld. nature ... Researchers unveiled recent discoveries made mostly in back yards, including 12 news species of flies belonging to a single genus, Megaselia, of the fly family Phoridae, demonstrating what they said was an extraordinary level of undocumented biodiversity in areas heavily populated by humans ... ....

First-ever intensive biodiversity study reveals 30 new species of insects in Los Angeles

Edit Inhabitat 30 Mar 2015
According to Phys.org, the discovery of these 30 species found within the genus Megaselia of the fly family Phoridae was made by researchers from the BioSCAN Project at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM), who are conducting a three-year investigation of patterns of biodiversity the greater Los Angeles area, based on a sampling of insects – the world’s most diverse form of animal life ... Related ... Via Phys.org ... 0 ... ....
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