Sentence examples for a decline in diversification from inspiring English sources

Across the radiation the subfamily Sigmodontinae appear to have experienced a decline in diversification rate through time.

The stem lineages leading to the clades containing Abrawayaomys and Punomys appeared close to the base of the radiation during Late Miocene or Early Pliocene.> The LTT analysis for Sigmodontinae revealed a decline in diversification toward the present (see Fig.  2).

If this occurs, the reconstructed phylogeny would exhibit a decline in the diversification close to the present [ 46].

Instead of expecting an explosion of dinosaur diversity corresponding to the rise of angiosperms, he says, it's possible the plants prevented a decline in the rate of diversification.

Therefore, we believe the GAMs are fitting real features of the distribution of node ages in our sample: the average overall decline in diversification rate is largely due to decline from intermediate to recent periods, which encompass most of the nodes contributing information to the test statistics.

Rather the decline in diversification suggests that the Late Pleistocene climate cycles, or the lowered sea levels of ~ 2 Ma, may have inhibited speciation or increased extinction within AeglaA.

Diet diversification positively correlates to a decline in numbers of the bobcat's principal prey; the abundance of its main prey species is the main determinant of overall diet.

During the Late Permian, increasing aridity and the diversification of reptiles contributed into a decline in terrestrial temnospondyls, but semiaquatic and fully aquatic temnospondyls continued to flourish, including the large Melosaurus of Eastern Europe.

Additionally the decrease in net diversification at two nodes might suggest a decline in birth rates -or an increase in extinction rates- in certain phases within the radiation.

Trends in the previous century had kept unemployment rates fairly high: a lack of diversification in the resource-based economy, high transportation costs, and a decline in manufacturing had reduced opportunities and contributed to significant out-migration.

"I don't think I appreciated the lack of diversification, the amount of leverage, the amount of maturity transformation that made the system so vulnerable to a decline in housing prices," he said.