Sentence examples for declining sizes from inspiring English sources

Livestock rearing which is the main livelihood strategy in Amboseli ecosystem has seen drastic decline due to the changes in rangeland resources evident in the declining sizes of household herds reported by majority of respondents.

Thereafter, it took almost a century before these patterns were clearly identified in data, sparked by Ricker's (1981) study of declining sizes of Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. returning to spawn; patterns he could not explain by any concurrent environmental trend but that were consistent with evolutionary change driven by the size-selective fishery.

Another is their declining size, relative to others.

The declining size of the community has already led to increased numbers marrying outside, something of which traditional Parsis disapprove.

Many social trends work against it, from declining church attendance to the declining size of Catholic families that once happily dedicated one in the bunch to the seminary.

"Around 2001, when state budgets started going into the red," Mr. Schapiro said, "the declining size of the pie and the smaller slice going to higher education made things start to hurt".

A new global study that uses remote camera traps to take photographs of wild mammals in their habitats suggests that fragmented habitat and the declining size of preserves worldwide are having a negative impact on mammal populations.

The ageing of Germany's population, the declining size of the workforce, and increasing shortages of skilled labor pose huge additional challenges.

The declining size in fish populations also tends to be related to behavioral changes and/or genetic changes resulting in slower growth rates and a smaller size at maturity [11].

The previous Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards recently expressed his worry over the declining size of Britain's forces, even as the UK builds what he called its "huge" carriers.

Second, we do not find that tree plantation expansion is associated with declining size of rural populations.