Sentence examples for drastic population decline from inspiring English sources

that are predicted to lead to a drastic population decline.

The drastic population decline in Europe after 1350 as a result of the Black Death left much arable land uncultivated and also created an acute labour shortage, both economically favourable events for the peasantry.

He is also building fertility clinics in Russia, one every two years, to help reverse its drastic population decline.

Given the low survival of common vole (a few months), a stop of reproduction may cause a drastic population decline in a short time.

The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) has undergone a recent, drastic population decline due to the highly contagious devil facial tumor disease.

The vast genetic differences detected among the distinct geographic areas are likely the result of the drastic population decline occurring during the past two centuries, although a founder effect cannot be precluded as an alternative source of the marked genetic divergence signature observed in W populations [ 10].

Once a common summer visitor to Ireland, corncrakes have suffered drastic population declines over the last few decades and are threatened with global extinction.

While wild chimpanzees are experiencing drastic population declines, their numbers at African rescue and rehabilitation projects are growing rapidly.

Many marine turtle populations have experienced drastic population declines over the past thirty years due to anthropogenic disturbances, habitat loss, marine debris and predation (Lutcavage et al., 1997; Hamann et al., 2007; Wallace et al., 2011).

By using museum specimens as DNA sources along with tissues obtained from the field, we sampled representatives of all generally recognized Gyps taxa with emphasis on those geographically distributed in south Asia; the primary area experiencing recent, drastic population declines.

Knowledge of a species' past evolutionary history, and how rapid environmental changes may alter the value of traits that evolved in past conditions, could provide a means of predicting the vulnerability of different species or populations to forecasted future conditions, allowing for preemptive action before drastic population declines are documented (see Schlaepfer et al. 2010; Sih et al. 2011).