Sentence examples for ecosystem vulnerable from inspiring English sources

But a temporary drop in the numbers of large herbivores may have left the dino ecosystem vulnerable to catastrophic extinction at just the wrong moment, National Geographic reports.

They speak of a fragility, of an ecosystem vulnerable to whim at any moment as it mines tired ideas for cash engines.

At a big company, every boat does not necessarily have to sit on its own bottom and this can lead to a "monoculture mindset" that stunts new lines of business and ultimately leaves the corporate ecosystem vulnerable to external forces.

The majority of the species present on the island are endemic to it and can be found nowhere else on Earth, the result of an isolated evolutionary linage sheltered from external biotic influence; this makes its ecosystem vulnerable both to invasive species and human development, and an estimated third of the island's natural flora and fauna has already gone extinct.

Part of the reason is that the average regional temperature had hovered near freezing--making the permafrost vulnerable to thawing and leaving ecosystems vulnerable.

Their natural beauty, an asset as a tourist attraction, hides the fact that they have fragile ecosystems, vulnerable to climate change.

This leaves ecosystems vulnerable to dramatic changes, such as when a single species, like certain algae, grows out of control and forms toxic blooms, like the red tides common off the coast of Florida and Mexico.

Besides making water undrinkable, increased salinity could impair bacterial processes that help cleanse the water and leave freshwater ecosystems vulnerable to invasion by organisms suited to salt water, says Kaushal, whose team reports its findings online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

And they leave countless coastal communities and marine ecosystems vulnerable to accidents like this one in Kodiak.

In many parts of the world, villagers are departing from ecologically degraded rural environments for overcrowded urban centers, leaving rural ecosystems vulnerable to further exploitation and degradation.

A key question that has long puzzled ecologists is to understand which factors make ecosystems vulnerable to biological invasions [1], [2], [3].