Sentence examples for large scale declines from inspiring English sources

We detected large scale declines in individual species.

The report, titled The Future of Jobs, validates the accelerating impact of technology on global employment trends, and also highlights serious concerns that job growth in certain industries is still very much outpaced by large scale declines in other industries.

Further, leopard populations in many areas may have been "released" [36] by large scale declines in lion numbers: lions inflict considerable mortality on leopards [37]; consequently, hunting blocks in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve with the highest lion harvest intensities showed the largest increases in leopard harvests (P = 0.0059 after controlling for declines in lion offtakes, n = 45 blocks).

Although grasslands are crucial habitats for European butterflies, large-scale declines in quality and area have devastated many species.

Expanding human population and economic growth have led to large-scale conversion of natural habitat to human-dominated landscapes with consequent large-scale declines in biodiversity.

This is unsurprising given that veterinary cordon fences represent impermeable barriers for most species and are associated with large-scale declines in water-dependent species in the Kalahari (Thouless 1998,Wheelwright et al. 1996).

Disruption of plant fungal mutualisms may generally contribute to the common, large-scale declines in forest biodiversity observed in the wake of allelopathic invaders.

Large-scale declines of eelgrass have been reported from areas of the region where water clarity is low, and nutrient concentrations are high, i.e. Danish coastal waters, the Swedish west coast and the Puck Lagoon, Poland.

If the large-scale declines in eelgrass distribution had occurred in the inner part of the Baltic Sea, where eelgrass reproduce primarily vegetatively, the problem would have been even more serious, because the probability of recolonization would be extremely low and recovery would have long perspectives owing to slow clonal growth (Reusch et al., 1999).

According to background investigation, the study area's X XII sand groups have experienced a large-scale decline in lake level.

Our results showed that in Catalonia, at a landscape scale, the impact of forest management on forest bird communities is much smaller than the impact of the widespread maturation of forests following a large-scale decline in traditional uses.