It's there in the thermodynamics of water heated past the boiling point; in the optical focusing that creates intense webs of light at the bottom of a swimming pool; in sociological models of mobs and mass movements like the sudden revolts that became the Arab Spring; and in ecological models for the collapse of a forest from an outbreak of insects.
Since the degradation process is predicted to cause the collapse of these fragmented forests, we can choose either to neglect them or to attempt the reversal of the degradation process for biodiversity conservation.
The prevailing lowland forest ecosystem was transformed from forest to grassland; some of this change was caused by the use of fire, but the prevailing cause of forest ecosystem collapse and avian extinction on Hawaii appears to have been the introduction of the Polynesian (or Pacific) Rat.
I can't get my head around it". Boyd will be out of contract at the end of the season and the collapse of the deal with Forest could have seen Peterborough's prized asset leave London Road on a free transfer in the summer.
collapse of the Amazonian rain forest [6].
Our goal was to assess the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union on forest canopy removal rates in protected areas, and how these rates varied by protected area status and over time.
The simulations do not show a collapse of the Amazonian rain forest even for strong climate change.
Thanks to the collapse of the Sitka spruce market, Forest Enterprise, the Commission's commercial arm, lost £33.6m in 2000-01, though it still has £1.2 billion in assets, mostly forests and houses.
After the agonising collapse of Brian Clough's regime, Nottingham Forest played a season in what is now the Championship with their fans wearing T-shirts proclaiming they were "on loan from the Premier League".
While a recession of the boreal forest is simulated in some areas, along with a general expansion to the north, we do not observe a reported collapse of the central Amazonian rain forest.
