article_snippet.sent: We think of wide variety of flowering plants in urban areas as thriving in wildflower meadows and rolling fields.
article_snippet.sent: She said: ‘While concreting over the countryside may appear to be bad news for nature, we’ve found that progressive urbanisation may be much less damaging than intensive agriculture.
article_snippet.sent: Over the past century rural landscapes in Britain have become increasingly dominated by large expanses of monoculture - the growing of a single type of plant, which has helped boost crop production.
article_snippet.sent: But without a mixture of habitat and food sources, rural areas can sometimes be little better than green deserts for biodiversity.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Reason is likely due to wide variety of flowering plants in urban areas .