Sentence examples for a decrease in natural from inspiring English sources

Plantation expansion has also resulted in a decrease in natural forest cover and a high level of habitat fragmentation.

Haas et al. (2015) demonstrated that Shanghai, China is facing a decrease in natural areas as urban areas rapidly increase by approximately 120%.

Alongside a decrease in natural land cover, urban areas increased by approximately 120% in Shanghai, nearly ten times as much as in Stockholm, where the most significant land cover change was a 12% urban expansion that mostly replaced agricultural areas.

This leads to a decrease in natural genetic diversity among bobcat populations.

This development - a decrease in natural mating and in the on-site AI and an increase in transported semen - continued during the study period of 1991-2005.

The delayed activation of the DHRS causes a decrease in the natural circulation flow rate and a temperature rise in the RV.

With these changes, we have seen a pervasive homogenization of landscapes, leading to a decrease in the natural variability of stream behavior and putting both river ecosystem ecology and human settlements at risk.

Foliation and cleavage are highly deformed in the shale-dominant interval (sh3) and in the hanging wall damage zone just above the fault core, which is associated with an increase in sandstone and a general decrease in natural gamma rays (Figure 5, Table 1).

There has been a 26% decrease in natural pastures in the Brazilian Pampa Biome since 1975, with a negative growth of −12.5% between 1975 and 1985.

Due to its strict host-specificity, confined geographic distribution, climate changes and over exploitation by human, O. sinensis has suffered from a sharp decrease in natural production in recent decades.

The presence of a crack causes the local stiffness of the beam to decrease which, in turn, causes a marked decrease in natural frequency of the beam when the roving mass is located in the vicinity of the crack.