Whether dispersal limitation is due to increased insularity from regional sources for epiphyll recolonization or rather to lowered within-fragment dispersal potential is unknown; nonetheless, the long-term persistence of these microscopic plant metacommunities depends on the preservation of rain forest reserves of at least 100-ha in size.
Increased insularity of valleys could lead to reduced genetic variation of local populations due to a lack of immigration from adjacent valleys, and may have long-term detrimental effects on A. uncatus populations' abilities to cope with future environmental change.
The essay lamented the increasing insularity and irrelevance of poetry.
This decline in judicial empathy is a function of the increasing insularity of the men and women in black.
Meanwhile, at least one of the families in How the Other Half Lives catapults its blessings to their poor counterparts from within a gated community, those real estate symbols of the increasing insularity on the rich.
"Spiderland" deserves the overheated praise, but it was partly responsible for the enervation and increasing insularity of independent rock music during the nineties, a decade in which hip-hop, teen pop, and dance-hall, by contrast, became ever more formally omnivorous and pleasurable.
In the last few years, I have been alarmed at Britain's increasing insularity, cultural ignorance and suspicion of anyone who is foreign, "other", an incomer: a debate about asylum and refuge turns quickly into one about all immigration, which turns into a debate about Islam and Muslims in Britain, which then turns into a debate about Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism.
Many liberal opponents of Trump want to insist that he is the natural heir to the past twenty years of increasing ideological insularity within the Republican Party, and in the sense that that insularity helped produce the radicalism and polarization that made Trump possible, this may be true.
Hard to believe, in fact, that they'll ever be found, given the increasing rigidity, insularity and extremism of today's Republican Party.
Individualism has lead to increased selfishness and insularity.
(41) He worries that among the affordances of Web 2.0 tools is a tendency to constrict our identities to a closed set of communal norms that perpetuate increased polarization, prejudice and insularity.
