This is bad, as bleaching can lead to large-scale decreases in coral health and ultimately their death.
δ15N values showed a large-scale, uniform latitudinal gradient decreasing from the south to north, in a region encompassing oligotrophic waters in the Coral Sea.
Japan has 47 prefectures, and during the study period underwent administrative re-organization through a large-scale merging of municipalities which decreased the total number of municipalities from 3,232 to 1,750 between 1998 and 2010.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06481.002 Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has repeatedly demonstrated that cognitive tasks of many kinds decrease activity in a large-scale cortical network, variously termed the task-negative or default mode network (DMN) (Shulman et al., 1997; Raichle et al., 2001; Andrews-Hanna et al., 2010).
A large-scale prophylaxis trial was not effective at decreasing the incidence of Candida bloodstream infections or improving outcome [ 8].
Speliotes et al. first reported the 16p12.3 deletion in a large-scale meta-analysis because a common BMI-decreasing allele was highly correlated with the same 21 kb deletion [ 9].
By defining American security objectives in military terms, the Bush administration has failed to set achievable goals that could vastly decrease the human and financial damage from a large-scale attack at home.
Estimates from a large-scale study indicated some astounding statistics: in response to incivility experiences, 48% of employees intentionally decreased their work effort, 47% intentionally decreased their time at work, and 38% intentionally decreased the level of quality in their work.
But a large-scale defection is unlikely.
He's a large-scale miniaturist!
called for a large-scale "transformation".
