Sentence examples for changed ecosystem from inspiring English sources

Another drawback is that the side-effects are largely unknown and potentially horrible if, for example, a "weed" species were to take advantage of a changed ecosystem.

Whitetails are excellent swimmers, and perhaps following the wooded corridors of our many parkways, or swimming across tidal rivers and bays, they re-established themselves into a greatly changed ecosystem.

And even though the spiders had been de-fanged, the hoppers still fled to the forbs, showing, Schmitz concluded, that the mere presence of predators — and the fear they engender — affected the plant-eating behavior of the prey and changed ecosystem dynamics.

Under changed ecosystem conditions, spawner biomass and yields would be lower.

Since the changes in lake limnology have not yet reached a stable state, it is not yet clear how extensively the lake would be affected and, therefore, the net fish biomass that could be supported by the changed ecosystem.

Forest fires leave behind a changed ecosystem with a patchwork of surface cover that includes ash, charred organic matter, soils and soil minerals, and dead, damaged, and living vegetation.

The invention of agriculture around 8,000 years ago, some argue, significantly changed ecosystems as it spread around the globe.

Over the past 50 years, humans have changed ecosystems faster and more extensively than during any other comparable time period in human history.

Forest debris on ground surface can interact with soil biota and consequently change ecosystem processes across heterogeneous landscape.

Finally, Jantz and Morlock (2011) found that increasing population pressure and associated residential development have the potential to change ecosystem functions within park boundaries.

But when Skype was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $2.6bn, it totally changed that ecosystem.