Sentence examples for formerly widespread from inspiring English sources

Though formerly widespread in the region, due to heavy deforestation and habitat modification it now is only patchily distributed.

Two other Indo-European language divisions were formerly widespread but now are spoken only by a few groups.

BAP species were selected as they represent formerly widespread and common species, which have undergone substantial declines in the UK and Europe.

The chigetia or kulan (E. hemionus hemionus), which was formerly widespread over an immense region of the Gobi, now occurs only in semidesert steppe country in central Mongolia.

Due to hunting and habitat loss, this formerly widespread species declined until just 16 individuals remained in the wild in 1941.

Stuck in lime in the second orchard were five collared flycatchers, a house sparrow, and a spotted flycatcher (formerly widespread, now becoming rare in much of northern Europe), as well as three more blackcaps.

It was formerly very widespread, but has now collapsed back.

Many habitats have been extensively modified by agriculture, thus restricting the ranges of certain species that were formerly more widespread.

In fragmented landscapes plant species are often confined to remnants of formerly more widespread habitats, with many of their populations being small and isolated.

In Europe the corn poppy was formerly a widespread weed in cultivated fields, with seeds lying dormant for years and sprouting when the soil was turned.

Now restricted to the North American Arctic (including northern Greenland), it was formerly more widespread and is probably a "refugee" species, chased into the far north and on the defensive in the evolutionary sense.