Adjacent phytochoria do not usually have a sharp boundary, but rather a soft one, a transitional area in which many species from both regions overlap.

The Dutch population has grown rapidly in the last half-century and its increase has been matched by an expansion of industry, with the result that the same period has seen the Netherlands develop from a mainly agricultural to an industrial country.

And therewithall he swange oute a swerde and seyde, ‘But yf thou telle me all who hath ben here, now shalt thou dey!’

The ROC central government approved DuPont’s application to build an agricultural pesticide plant in the Chang-ping Industrial Zone near Lu-kang in August, 1985. However, the residents of Lu-kang and its nearby villages feared that the construction of a DuPont plant would definitely pollute local water and destroy the area’s seashore beauty and fishery. As one of the oldest communities in Taiwan, Lu-kang has a tremendous collection of cultural and historical treasures.