Sentence examples for declines in diversity from inspiring English sources

Urban and agricultural land uses have caused documented declines in diversity of many organisms.

Such loss of diversity during plant recruitment can compound the declines in diversity from habitat loss37 and elevated mortality of trees in fragments38, with implications for future composition and function of fragmented forests.

These conspicuous declines in diversity are referred to as mass extinctions; they are distinguished from the majority of extinctions, which occur continually and are referred to as background extinction.

Similarly, benthic communities in tropical coral reefs and atoll lagoons have shown significant declines in diversity and catastrophic losses in coral cover10,11,12,13 as well as local mortalities in a wide range of species such as echinoderms14 or intertidal barnacles15 due to heat waves and thermal anomalies.

We capitalized on a regional-scale, anthropogenic experiment the reduction of black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns across the Great Plains of North America to test the hypothesis that decline of this species has led to declines in diversity of native grassland vertebrates of this region.

Some methods have been employed to discover signs of adaptation, among them identifying local declines in diversity, indicating selective sweeps in different populations of species (Andolfatto 2001; Nielsen 2005).

Sea scorpions were most diverse in the Silurian and Lower Devonian, after which they rapidly declined in diversity.

But Mr. Powell said that projections of a wave of industry consolidation, and of the decline in diversity or quality of programming, were nonsense.

Referring to the agricultural history in Central Europe determinants of floristic diversity at the habitat scale and the decline in diversity over the last few decades are described.

Indeed, around the K-T boundary there is the phenomenon known as the "fern spike": all land plants except ferns show a dramatic decline in diversity.

External sediments had higher species richness, and a significant decline in diversity values inside the caves was found at all marine cave locations studied.