Higher plants and animals, on the other hand, took much longer to develop and disperse.

另一方面，高型植物和动物花费了更长时间进化和扩散。

The island of New Guinea has the highest plant diversity of any island in the world.

新几内亚岛拥有世界上最丰富的植物多样性。

The land-lovers lifted their heads higher, planted their fins more efficiently, and slipped less often than their aquatic associates.

陆地爱好者比他们的水生伙伴抬得更高，脚蹼更有效，滑倒的次数更少。

Storz also wants to know how mice are finding food on top of a barren, rocky volcano, thousands of feet above the highest green plants.

斯托兹还想知道老鼠如何在一座贫瘠的岩石火山顶寻找食物，其山顶比最高的绿色植物高出数千英尺。

One of the higher plants may be said to be dominant if it be more numerous in individuals and more widely diffused than the other plants of the same country, which live under nearly the same conditions.

如果一种高等植物比生活在几乎相同条件下的同一国家的其他植物数量更多， 分布更广， 则可以说它是优势植物。

So for example, our vineyard has very high plant density that results in roots density, that creates competition within the roots, making them go deeper and deeper and yielding grapes that are very rich and very select in a way.

举例来说，我们的葡萄园有非常高的植物密度， 导致根部密度很大，从而在根部内部产生竞争，使它们越来越深， 从而产出非常丰富且在某种程度上非常精选的葡萄。