Sentence examples for diminished populations from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kiiru regrets the vastly diminished populations of the mythic birds of Kikuyu tribal culture, like buzzards, owls and hawks.

The 'emptying out' of many public facilities and services (for example, in clinics that lacked medicines or doctors) diminished populations' as well as civil servants' expectations of the potential of state action for social transformation, as well as for social control (Masquelier 2001).

On the opposite, accumulating so-called resting-state acquisitions, in which the mental state of the subject is not controlled, is much more tractable [ 41], and is applicable to diminished populations [ 42].

It makes little sense to reconstruct an entire village from scratch amid contaminated fields close to depleted fishing grounds for a greatly diminished population.

Decades of poaching for its velvety pelt, peaking in the 1950s and 1960s, considerably diminished population numbers.

The locus specific P value, for the well-established Hipp1a QTL on distal Chr. 1, chosen at the point of the best P-value in the original map, decreases relatively smoothly with number of samples in the randomly diminished population.

What's worse, by focusing on catching large adults, fishing removes individuals in their reproductive prime that are needed to replenish diminishing populations.

Conversely, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, and Pennsylvania all seem likely to lose a congressional seat as a result of diminishing populations.

While trophy hunting is legal in many African countries -- often provided hunters buy expensive licenses -- conservationists believe the practice is responsible for the diminishing populations of many vulnerable, threatened or endangered species.

This additional characteristic should assist in distinguishing diminishing populations associated with elevated levels of varroa mites (and virus) [86] and N. ceranae [39] from collapsing populations associated with CCD.

"We see the problems of an ageing and diminishing population," he said, adding that the 41m workforce would shrink rapidly by the mid-2020s on current trends.