Sentence examples for diminished species from inspiring English sources

But in a study reported recently in Ecological Monographs, Raphael D. Sagarin, a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Barbara who has worked at the marine station, and other researchers, noted that the diminished species were predominantly cold-water creatures and that the newcomers seemed to have moved in from the south.

Nevertheless, the main driving forces are different: the wild flora are homogenized by diminished species richness difference while the cultivated flora due to the decreased species replacement.

Deviations from this pattern occur with differences in species contribution, e.g., if SR changes but functional diversity remains constant, the additional or diminished species do not exhibit unique ecological traits and can be considered as functional redundant [ 13].

Reluctant to turn Digit into a sacrificial victim, but feeling that his death might help in the fight to protect the rapidly diminishing species, she allowed him to become the figurehead of a drive to raise funds for preservation of the mountain gorilla.

Land use intensification reduces natural areas and alters landscape heterogeneity diminishing species richness and changing ecosystem functionality.

As the spread sheet exploration of two competing species showed, increase in the interaction between cells within a species diminishes the species' population.

In 1990, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) placed the pallid sturgeon on the endangered species list, because few young individuals had been observed in the preceding decade, and sightings had greatly diminished; the species is now rarely seen in the wild.

We also observed that one-to-one orthologous relationships diminished as species diverged over time (Additional file 1: Figures S22 and S23).

In critical periods, such as winter, when the importance of intraspecific competition diminish, species may relax their environmental requirements widening their ecological niche to exploit the scarcer trophic resources more efficiently in comparison with spring.

Deforestation and intensive land use management with plantations of fast-growing tree species, like Populus spp., may endanger native trees not only by eliminating or reducing their habitats, but also by diminishing their species integrity via hybridization and introgression.

For example, coevolution can involve repeated selective sweeps, which drives divergence between species while diminishing polymorphism within species [ 1, 2].