Sentence examples for formerly extensive from inspiring English sources

Even with the attempts at reforestation since the 1950s, formerly extensive populations of native birds and mammals have almost vanished.

Surviving patches of woodland associations of broad-leaved trees and some conifers, summarily described as Atlantic, central, and eastern hint at the formerly extensive cover.

Using a large database of ad-hoc biological records (50 501 records of 502 species) we modelled the richness of wetland biodiversity across the Fens, a formerly extensive wetland, now agricultural landscape in eastern England.

This forest is a part of one of the larger remnants of the formerly extensive Canterbury foothill forests dominated by black beech (Allen et al. 2000).

In hilly areas in southern parts of Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, transitional between the coastal plains and the inland Trường Sơn (Annamite) Mountain Ranges, a formerly extensive rainforest has been successively reduced and largely supplanted by exotic acacia plantations.

The only remnant of the formerly extensive wetlands in Point Loma, aside from the riverbed itself, is a city-owned nature preserve called Famosa Slough, which branches off from the river near its mouth.

Thick soils on uplands of the Edwards Plateau are interpreted to be relicts of a formerly more extensive soil cover that was eroded during the late Pleistocene to middle Holocene.

While the cultural heritage found in Syria was formerly under extensive protection, war has caused irreplaceable damage to its antiquity treasures, which hold such historic value.  .

Even though a formerly proposed extensive nucleoskeleton (e.g., Nickerson, 2001; Jackson, 2003) is not supported by recent data, it remains possible that structural elements contribute to locally restricted nuclear sub-compartments.

However, there are numerous dams above the HCC, including those along the Boise and Payette rivers that formerly provided extensive sands originating from the Idaho Batholiths, and it is thus difficult to differentiate some of the physical impacts of the HCC from impacts due to the upstream dams (Parkinson and others 2003).

Facies 1a has a patchy distribution, occurring both in undisturbed, isolated areas as accumulations atop blocks and in fissures (e.g., Figure 4A), and more commonly as erosional remnants of formerly more extensive deposits that filled the Dinaledi Chamber and side passages.