Sentence examples for existing stress from inspiring English sources

Ecosystems are also highly vulnerable to climate change, which can aggravate existing stress factors such as pollution, land conversion and invasive non-native species.

This particular situation leads to, and aggravates the existing stress on land resources.

Therefore, it permits the use of existing stress- or strain-based failure criteria for damage prediction.

This chapter further discusses the computation of existing stress in the soil based on the effective stress method.

The ratio of past maximum stress and present existing stress is defined as the over consolidation ratio.

In many ways, this superposition mechanism, where thermal stresses act in concert with an existing stress regime, is similar to that hypothesized for tidal-triggered earthquakes48,49, where seemingly small stresses can cause ultimate fracture.

Warming and acidification, combined with existing stresses, will strongly affect coral reef fish communities.

All of us in the IPCC clearly bring out the fact that climate change exacerbates existing stresses, and it could literally be the last straw on the camel's back.

Figure 3 Comparison of existing stress-depth relationships and stress ratios for the geothermal sites of Bruchsal and Soultz.

So, as implied by the term "Geomechanics," keys to physical and mechanical problems resulted from materials operating in various depth of the earth and from the existing stresses can be found in domain of this science.

Scientists are still unclear about the cause of CCD, but theories include increased levels of pesticides in the air; the presence of a new parasite or pathogen that is attacking the bees; and higher levels of existing stresses like poor diet and contaminated water.