Sentence examples for historical extent from inspiring English sources

Due to urban development, however, the watershed of Islais Creek has been reduced by roughly 80% from its historical extent.

His diplomatic and political conquests enabled Andriamasinavalona to extend his kingdom to its fullest historical extent, making him the first Merina sovereign to rule over the entire province of Imerina.

There are no publications containing data on the timing or historical extent of these savanna-like habitats, so at this time we are not able to test the timing of ecological changes with genetic data.

Recent diving expeditions have shown there to be limited patches of seagrass (Zostera spp. Zosteraceae) present in the Firth of Clyde [81], [82], however there is little information regarding the historical extent of these habitats.

The field-based estimate employed historical soybean extent maps from the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDAA) Cropland Data Layer to delineate and stratify U.S. soybean growing regions.

Differences in levels of phylogeographic structure between B. rufescens and B. nympha may be related to regional differences in historical forest extent, which is hypothesized to have varied over time [ 47, 48].

We used historical flood plume extent data (modelled) to quantify the typical spatial extent of the summer runoff seawater mixing zone of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) lagoon.

While it is true that the S&P Midcap 400 and the S&P Smallcap 600 indexes, and U.S. mid-cap stocks and U.S. small cap stocks by extension, are trading above their historical averages, the extent of this premium is more than narrow than currently seen with U.S. large cap stocks.

Exactly why this move should have met with near universal acceptance is to some extent historical, however the fact that the intellectual tools (largely mathematical models) of the participants in the units debates were better suited to dealing with aspects of that debate other than the replicator question which requires mainly bio-chemical investigation, surely contributed to this outcome.

This is to some extent historical but also reflects our philosophy that DNA sequence is a public, unambiguous and easily exchanged data type that can for the most part be incorporated into annotation using computational tools.

Just as investigating the historical occurrence and extent of local adaptation was a major scientific goal in the last and early part of this century, increasing our understanding of contemporary plastic and evolutionary responses to climate change is now a central objective of evolutionary and ecological genetics.