Farther north throughout the continent, as present distribution of arable land shows, forests were reduced to remnants; only in the north and below the snow line of Alpine mountains have forests of large and continuing commercial value survived.
The Piedmont prairies of the American southeast, now reduced to remnants, are currently thought to be the product of bison as well as fire (Horan, 1995).
In the case of deforestation, however, significant social and biological implications arise when large contiguous forests are reduced to remnant status because forests provide a host of benefits in their unextracted form.
Thus, argues Mueller, war has been substantially reduced to its remnants—or dregs and thugs are the residual combatants.
In most cases, the polychrome paintings that decorated heritage buildings no longer exist or are reduced to mere remnants.
Mueller argues that war is an idea, like dueling or slavery, that has been substantially discredited, reduced to its remnants—or dregs and thugs are the residual combatants.
In the southern part of the Upper Rhine valley (border region of Switzerland, Germany and France) the habitat suitable for this flightless beetle has been reduced to small remnants of extensively managed dry grassland, usually surrounded by intensively cultivated agricultural fields or settlements.
Now an international team of researchers has reported that what was a broad swath of thousands of acres of intact forest just 30 years ago has since been reduced to peppered remnants in a sea of farms, homes, cattle-grazing areas and logged and degraded woods.
The house Mr. Kitchens, a Forest Service information officer, was pointing out had been reduced to ashen remnants of someone's lost mountain lifestyle: twisted tin, stones from a toppled chimney, a half-melted refrigerator, some charred mattress springs and a scorched television set.
Champa was reduced to a narrow remnant along the southern edge of the peninsula.
So the group that terrorized half a country, northern Mali, in the heart of West Africa for much of 2012, taking over its major towns, and threatening other nations in the region, has been reduced to a pale remnant of its former self.
