I consider Africa the most beautiful desert my eyes ever laid on due to its superb landscape with the diverse collection of flora and fauna. Karoo, a desert ecosystem in South Africa has become a laboratory for the action and experimental researches regarding the effects of the changing climate or the dreaded
global warming to the ecosystem. The barren, solitary terra firma was also delegated as among the world's 25 biodiversity hotspots by the Washington-based Conservation International due to its Mediterranean atmosphere that displays a stunning variation of almost 5,000 plant specie which can't be found anywhere else.
The said extinct plants are called succulents because of their ability to pile up water in their leaves and stems. According to studies by
plant physiologists of the National Botanical Institute, the threat of losing these collections of flora is the rapidly warming climate in the location. They also said that some parts of the ecosystem showed plants and flowers that have trampled leaves and dead flowers reflecting the lack of water resources and nutrients in the place. With this ongoing situation, the future generation of plants and the probability of having a more abundant ecosystem would be impossible
There were also areas wherein only adult plants survived the extreme temperature in the place, however they are living like dead just due to the scarcity of nutrients. I think if we're going to relate it wit the computer world, these plants are more like the
disastrous zombie PCs. Meanwhile the young plants die early in what we can described as a natural death because they don't have the storage ability that old plants have to beat the heat.
