Sentence examples for drastic disturbance from inspiring English sources

TBT toxicity caused on phytoplankton <20 μm an increase of mean cell size and changes in shape reflected a drastic disturbance of the cell cycle leading to an inhibition of the apparent growth rate.

We hypothesized that drastic disturbance associated with pipeline burial would result in homogenization of above- and below-ground properties and that soil variability would be higher in areas with longer recovery time.

Due to drastic disturbance of its natural habitat as well as overexploitation for timber, there are only two remaining remnant populations (Fu et al.,1999).

Surface mining involves drastic disturbances to regional ecosystem and soil properties.

Mining causes drastic disturbances in landscape and soil properties, and reclamation can restore soil quality over time.

After the disturbance, drastic decreases in the densities of the amphipod Platorchestia monodi, coleopterans Cleridae, Nitidulidae and Phaleria testacea (Brazilian beaches) and amphipod Talitrus saltator (Spanish beaches) were detected in the impacted plots.

The results document that even small landscape units may serve as important diversity sources (corridors) for restitution of local microarthropod communities in arable fields (α-diversity), provided that management practices avoid drastic changes leading to the disturbance and degradation of arable soils.

However, the majority of gaps contained abundant subcanopy Fagus grandifolia, Acer saccharum, and Acer rubrum leading us to project that the forest will undergo a drastic composition shift under the current disturbance regime.

Distributed parameter models extend the operability to drastic changes, e.g. startup and large load disturbances, and local disturbances and malfunctioning.

The cork oak (Quercus suber L). woodlands of the agroforestry landscapes of Southwestern Iberia are undergoing drastic change due to severe natural and anthropogenic disturbances.

We postulate that this drastic climatic change event preceded by a period of disturbance and followed by continuing habitat loss and heavy cowbird parasitism may have led to prolonged periods of suppressed population sizes and, hence, declining genetic diversity.