Sentence examples for extensive decline from inspiring English sources

"It is unprecedented," says Richard Ambrose, a marine biologist at UCLA. "It's a really extensive decline of a really important component of rocky tidal and subtidal communities along the whole west coast.

And that resulted in them having a very extensive decline". The last survivors retreated to Wales and remote parts of Scotland.

The physiological loss of tissue homeostasis during life is typically concomitant to a progressive and extensive decline in the physical and cognitive performance of the whole organism that is commonly referred to as aging.

As a result, the large and extensive decline in water levels of more than 100 feet has altered the direction of groundwater flow in the area (formerly toward the Rio Grande) toward pumped wells (Bexfield and Anderholm 2002).

These have declined by 90% in the north-eastern Atlantic Arctic over the past few decades as a result of extensive declines in regional sea ice, and the availability of sites for resting and raising pups.

In Tasmania there is emerging evidence that feral cat populations are increasing following wide-ranging and extensive declines in the apex predator, the Tasmanian devil, from a consistently fatal transmissible cancer.

Coastal vegetation such as mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes, have undergone extensive declines in abundance, distribution, and CCS over the past century.

Like most biological resources, however, coastal vegetation has undergone extensive declines in global distribution and abundance [13], culminating in the loss of ∼ one-third of the world's seagrass meadows and mangrove forests, and more than one-half of salt marshes, during the past century [14], [15], [16].

Both taxa have already experienced extensive declines and extinctions worldwide (Gibbons et al. 2000; Houlahan et al. 2000; Blaustein and Kiesecker 2002; Sinervo et al. 2010).

As a result, large and extensive declines in water levels substantially altered the direction of groundwater flow in the area from being generally north to south to being toward the major pumping centers from all directions, including along east-west flowpaths from the Rio Grande (Bexfield and Anderholm 2002).

environmental rights: Africa is struggling with extensive ecosystem decline, including desertification, water shortages, deforestation, and diminishing species diversity slopes.