Sentence examples for large-scale decline from inspiring English sources

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.

The large-scale decline of mRNAs associated with biosynthetic processes in both tissues indicated that waterlogging of roots induces systemic inhibition of ATP-consuming processes.

However, shoot density and biomass of the compiled shallow eelgrass meadows did not correlate significantly with the large-scale decline in salinity towards the inner Baltic Sea, probably because saturating light in the shallow water allows the plants to cope with the osmotic stress.

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).

We detected large scale declines in individual species.