Sentence examples for decreased ice from inspiring English sources
In the Swedish populations, this was attributed to decreased ice cover and longer fishing periods (Yom-Tov et al. 2010b), while this increase in their Norwegian conspecifics would be related with increased food availability due to fish farming (Yom-Tov et al. 2006a).
Consequently, there are short-term fluctuations that are superimposed upon a long-term trend for decreasing ice.
The study was designed to test a widely held hypothesis that population sizes of "ice-loving" top predators declined with decreasing ice coverage, whereas "ice-avoiding" species increased in population size as ice coverage diminished.
Although the populations of all krill-eating predators in the Antarctic had also declined, the researchers maintained that the loss of sea ice became a special concern for chinstrap penguin populations, which had once been wrongly believed to increase with decreasing ice coverage.
It was found that increasing supercooling and acoustic power resulted in decreasing ice crystals' mean size and increasing their mean circularity.
Ice temperature is shown to be the single largest factor influencing borehole strength: strength increases with decreasing ice temperature, however complex factors such as the ice failure mode and ice consolidation also bear upon the relation.
This first observational evidence of a linkage between the annual ice production and OSIW supports a hypothesis that decreasing ice production in the Okhotsk coastal polynyas, at least in part, has led to weakening of the overturning in the North Pacific.
The prospect of increased ship traffic through the Northwest Passage, which will be facilitated by climate warming and decreased sea ice in the Canadian Arctic, will greatly increase the probability of algae invasions into the region.
The N.H.L. Players Associationn has resisted a visor rule because of concerns about freedom of choice and decreased on-ice vision.
Rapidly decreasing sea ice suggests that the melting of polar ice sheets may occur more rapidly than previously predicted.
The number of dust particles larger than the threshold decreases during ice sublimation.
