Sentence examples for changes during the past from inspiring English sources

The results showed that the herding district has experienced notable land cover changes during the past decades, and most of these changes were directly related to forestry.

Harvest records reveal that populations of bobcats (Lynx rufus) in New Hampshire have undergone substantial changes during the past 200 years.

Homo sapiens are genetically diverse, but dramatic demographic and socioeconomic changes during the past century have created further diversification with respect to age, nutritional status, and the incidence of associated chronic inflammatory disorders and chronic infections.

Nevertheless, these values went through sharp changes during the past decades, typically resulting in the transformation of wood-pasture systems either in pastures without trees, high forests or other landuse forms.

Early childhood education (ECE) in China has gone through many dramatic changes during the past century, associated intricately with the fall and rise of the Chinese economy, politics, culture, and society (Li and Wang 2008; Zhu and Zhang 2008).

Based on their model assumptions up to 33% of the carbon sink can be related to environmental changes during the past century, i.e. warmer temperatures, fertilizing effects of increased CO2 and nitrogen deposition[42].

The Princeton team analyzed the ice-core data to create a single account of how atmospheric oxygen has changed during the past 800,000 years.

Repeat photography samples were used to analyze how the structure and site-specific distribution of forests may or may not have changed during the past century in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

Together they have probably been the most powerful engines of political change during the past half-century, but they have also exacted large demands from the two parties and their leaders.

This paper sets out to analyse the differences in population change between the regions of the Russian Federation; to identify the "ideal types" of trajectories of regional population change during the past 20 years and to analyse the initial (1990) conditions in the regions in relation to their later development in order to identify path-dependencies in their population change.

Our results show three periods of regional landscape alteration with distinct change in sediment composition: i) landscape development following deglaciation and through the Holocene Thermal Maximum, ~ 9500 3400 cal yr BP; ii) increased soil erosion during the Little Ice Age (LIA); and iii) rapid change during the past century coincident with ongoing climate change.