New Zealand scientists say they have evidence that the extinction of animal and plant species can have large long-term adverse effects ecosystems. Experts linked the decline of a common shrub in the extinction of two pollinating birds over a century.
Gloxinia Shrub suffers, "says the study, the effects of the disappearance of these birds in the North Island, exterminated by rats that came in ships that came to this land in the nineteenth century.
Mistletoe is another species, as scientists warn, is undergoing the process they describe as a "disaster in slow motion."
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