Sentence examples for ecologically vulnerable from inspiring English sources

In spite of their evolutionary success measured in numbers of species, lobelioids are ecologically vulnerable.

In the book, he makes the case that one of the most ecologically vulnerable cities in America — the ones most prone to destruction from hurricanes and floods — is New York.

The clockwork loop current in the Gulf could soon catch the slick and convey it towards the ecologically vulnerable Florida Keys and from there round to Miami and the eastern seaboard of the state.

They especially bridle when Democratic politicians push for big-government solutions ("The Al Gore Effect", the paper calls it).Dr Ecklund and her colleagues at the Chicago seminar wondered if the devout might be won round by environmental arguments stripped of politics and focused on helping people in poor, ecologically vulnerable countries.

Because of its status as a semienclosed sea with stratified water columns, low water temperatures, a slow circulation pattern, and much runoff from coastal and river areas with high concentrations of population and industry the Baltic has been recognized as ecologically vulnerable.

Yet it still manages to preserve that otherworldly mystery, even cherishing it — treating it as if it were one of those ecologically vulnerable bioluminescent bays of glowing plankton in the Caribbean by whose shimmer visitors could once read in the middle of the night.

The poorest people often live in the most ecologically sensitive and vulnerable physical locations.

The researchers believe that the attempts by the authorities to declare a "war on drugs" have merely pushed the traffickers into other remote areas, exacerbating pressures on vulnerable and ecologically important forests.

The Yunnan Guizhou Plateau relict cave spiders are important components of the local biodiversity, which is vulnerable both evolutionarily and ecologically.

Although GABA expression in squid is relatively low compared to vertebrates (Conti et al., 2013), evidence that elevated CO2 alters behaviour in other mollusc species (Manríquez et al., 2013; Manríquez et al., 2014; Watson et al., 2014) suggests that predator prey interactions and other ecologically important behaviours in squid could be vulnerable to projected end-of-century CO2 levels.

But other sensitive and ecologically significant areas, particularly in the Rocky Mountains, remain vulnerable.