Sentence examples for a decrease in biodiversity from inspiring English sources
Intensive agriculture has led to a decrease in biodiversity in many areas of the world.
The removal and fragmentation of natural landscapes by anthropogenic features have led to a decrease in biodiversity throughout the world.
"I've never seen somebody link a decrease in biodiversity to invasion by earthworms," says Mark Hunter, an ecologist from the University of Georgia, Athens.
Increased agricultural intensification has led to a decrease in biodiversity and the deterioration of important agricultural ecosystem services, such as biological control.
The conversion of natural environments into agricultural or other commercially viable land (e.g., dams, mines) is usually associated with a decrease in biodiversity.
This result is also consistent with the conservation states of RJ and BA RJJ is highly preserved, whereas BA has a low to medium level of degradation) because the degradation of mangrove areas is closely related a decrease in their biodiversity levels (Giri et al. 2011).
A decrease in microbial biodiversity has been found in mucosa and feces of IBD patients, together with an increase of fungi.
There has, however, been a decrease in agricultural biodiversity in many developing countries, which has led to a reduction in the variety of animals reared for food and plants grown by households or picked in the wild [ 9].
Scientists compared samples of the seaweed taken in 2011 and 2012 with historical records from the 1970s and found a drastic decrease in biodiversity, including a complete absence of 13 species.
Spatial patterns showed a general decrease in biodiversity from northwestern to southeastern regions following a gradient of production, with some exceptions and caution due to gaps in our knowledge of the biota along the southern and eastern rims.
The disappearance of sensitive species gradually drives the ecosystem to an overall decrease in biodiversity, which in turn favors biotic homogenization (McKinney and Lockwood 1999).
