Sentence examples for heavy mortality from inspiring English sources

Already, in the 1580s, White and his co-voyagers were aware that some of the villages they visited subsequently suffered heavy mortality, though they did not comprehend why.

Despite heavy mortality resulting from continual wars, Europe has been a source of emigrants throughout modern times.

Southerly populations breeding in eastern hemlock and Fraser fir are at risk as a result of wooly adelgids (Adelges tsugae) responsible for heavy mortality of these trees.

Heavy mortality has occurred among about ninety species of birds, including those most familiar to amateur naturalists, and in some of the sprayed towns the populations of nesting birds in general have declined as much as ninety per cent.

We examined the potential for ash re-establishment in areas of heavy mortality by measuring the status and change of ash regeneration at 45 sites across southeastern Lower Michigan in 2007 and 2009.

Reports from the various grouse districts show that the prospects for the season are extremely varied, says the "Daily Telegraph," and confirm the impressions which were formed — that there has been heavy mortality from disease during the spring.

The heavy mortalities and property losses caused by the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake have captured extensive public attention, although few studies have been conducted concerning community resilience after the earthquake.

He had made only heavy, mortality-laden dramas — there was a death or fatal disease at the center of each of his four features — and changing keys wasn't easy.

More importantly, the role of OsHV-1 in these field mortalities has been proved by experimental infection of Pacific oysters with OsHV-1, either by immersion in presence of experimentally infected oysters or by direct injection of virus particles in the adductor muscle, and by resulting heavy mortalities [ 17, 18].

As heavy mortalities occurred 4 6 days after infection, the vast majority of differentially expressed genes in susceptible fish represented the massive responses of the host against the infection including the acute phase proteins and genes involved in inflammation and immune responses [ 44, 45].

That finding stood in sharp contrast to an earlier U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that the heaviest mortality rates occurred in Africa and Southeast Asia, and that death rates in the Americas were lower.