Sentence examples for historical decline from inspiring English sources

Currently, a third of the world's landmass is forested, which may seem substantial but represents a stark historical decline.

One team, lead by Nicholas Gotelli at the University of Vermont, studied the historical decline in specimens taken by museums and private collectors.

So it's pretty amusing to see how, after railing against Hegel's myth of fated historical progress, he proceeds to construct an inverted myth of fated historical decline once Wilson bore Hegel's love-child.

"By validating almost all surveillance measures provided in the surveillance law adopted on 25 June, the French constitutional council legalises mass surveillance and endorses a historical decline in fundamental rights," it said, branding the decision "extremely disappointing".

The fish-eating bird with long, angled wings has been on an Amber list of species for conservation as it is in historical decline due to illegal killing, and low breeding numbers.

But even those population levels were not terribly high, as the barn owl had suffered a historical decline from the mid 1800s through to the late 1980s, as a result of increasingly intensive agriculture which affected barn owls' habitat and prey.

Most birds on the red list have seen their range or populations decline by more than half in recent years, or have undergone historical declines since 1800 from which they have not fully recovered.

However, most species in Rocky Mountain NP were too rare to include in our analysis, which likely reflects significant historical declines.

During Apple's June quarter conference call, the company said it expected price increases for DRAM and flat-panel displays and "lower than historical" declines in hard drives.

The model combines digitized census data and recently available modeled historical climate data at a 10 km2 grid cell scale and can be used to generate maps of 'hotspots' where historical declines in rural populations may be associated with extended periods of heat and lack of precipitation.

Bar graphs show historical declines in Brazil forests.