Poppies fade from Flanders fields as Europe's plant life changes
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
One hundred years after the outbreak of the First World War, the flower that has come to symbolise the lives lost in conflict – the poppy – is disappearing from former battle fields of northern France and Belgian Flanders. Ecologists who have been studying the dramatic changes that have occurred in Europe's plant biodiversity will present their findings at this week's joint BES/SFE conference in Lille.