Sentence examples for Ecological upheaval from inspiring English sources
For example, the severe ecological upheaval caused by the extreme climatic oscillations of the Ice Ages greatly favoured deer.
The Handmaid's Tale (1985; film 1990; opera 2000) is constructed around the written record of a woman living in sexual slavery in a repressive Christian theocracy of the future that has seized power in the wake of an ecological upheaval.
Conserving biodiversity during such a period of ecological upheaval poses many new challenges and will require a considerable increase in the resources available, especially to achieve the increase in the area that is protected for wildlife that will be necessary in order to sustain species as they adjust their ranges in response to climatic change.
However, one native fish species has not only persisted, but thrived through this period of ecological upheaval: the small pelagic cyprinid Rastineobola argentea, known locally as mukene in Uganda, omena in Kenya, and dagaa in Tanzania.
Here we utilize genome-wide surveys of mobile elements and two types of pseudogenes to suggest that diverse orders of mammals have undergone substantial, independent reductions in genome size following the Cretaceous Tertiary (KT) boundary, a period of global ecological upheaval occurring ∼65 Ma (Archibald 1996).
Geologists and paleontologists interpreted those sudden changes in the fossil record as evidence of ecological upheavals, after which new species emerged.
In the early decades of the fourteenth century, Asia reportedly suffered a series of ecological upheavals — storms, floods, earthquakes — and these disturbances may have forced the rodents out of their holes and into contact with human beings.
Contrary to the expectation that profound ecological upheavals during cooler periods would have reduced the population size of G. elliotii, the Bayesian skyline plot revealed a stable population during the cooler MIS4 and MIS2 periods.
LATE VICTORIAN HOLOCAUSTS: EL NINO FAMINES AND THE MAKING OF THE THIRD WORLD.By Mike Davis.Verso; 480 pages; $27 and £20THE once suspect idea that ecological change and political upheaval can be closely linked is fast gaining new adherents.
The phenomenon of land consumption is connected with different territorial criticalities, such as the impoverishment of very fine agricultural land, urban dispersion, the spatial and ecological fragmentation, the hydrogeological upheaval and so on [1].
But 140 years on, the chain of events they set off has brought social upheaval and the threat of ecological collapse to this remote corner of the world.
