Sentence examples for ecosystem devastated from inspiring English sources

But in a bit of good news for fisheries scientists, one ecosystem devastated by overfishing off the coast of Nova Scotia is showing early signs of recovery, a new study suggests.

Because few creatures had yet moved onto land, many ecosystems were devastated.

Long-term solutions lie in tackling global warming, rising sea levels, pollution and overharvesting; in the short term we can nurse back devastated ecosystems into economically productive habitats.

Rumpler authored a report last month linking nutrient runoff from agribusiness to the growth of algal blooms and dead zones that have devastated ecosystems and damaged local economies in places like Lake Erie, the Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

Both the islands' inhabitants and ecosystems have been devastated.

"That really devastated the ecosystem and not only had an impact on birds and small mammals, but also affected humans," he said.

Brazil's Amazonian and Cerrado ecosystems, meanwhile, have been devastated by the advance of cattle ranching and, more recently, soya cultivation, 80% of which is used for animal feed.

But I know more than a few marine conservationists and biologists who would rather see a weeklong special -- call it "Human Week" -- on how humans have devastated marine ecosystems, shark species in particular.

When animal populations artificially explode as a result of human influence, the consequences for the ecosystem are often devastating.

The impact that the construction process and the smothering of the river would have on such a fragile ecosystem would be devastating.

Additional studies, also using cDNA microarray factorial analysis, deem necessary to decipher the mechanisms governing zebra mussel byssogenesis, a process that has devastated the fragile ecosystem in infested waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes basin.