Sentence examples for lowering species from inspiring English sources

Shrubs like willow and birch became more dominant as temperatures rose, shading other plants and producing leaf litter that cools the soil and reduces nutrients for competing species, thereby lowering species diversity.

This disruption of regional similarity is a consequence of habitat destruction and can lead to indirect competitive exclusion (see also Fig. 1 where lower regional similarity leads to lower species richness).

Studying lower species is, at least, less fraught with political touchiness.

"Species pseudo-differentiation": if you decide that your enemy is from a different and lower species, it is much easier to kill him in battle.

But then, look again: it cannot be long before you realise that Velázquez, like his puckish admirer Dalí, is not really a conservative at all, that his eye constantly turns away from the centre of power to paint monuments to lesser orders, imperfect bodies, and lower species.

Impacted locations were characterised by fewer taxa, lower diversity and lower species richness.

The new data are broadly consistent with those from lower species with some caveats [38].

The coal swamps had a much lower species diversity compared to modern-day tropical rain forests.

As predicted by IBT, biota in fragments typically 'relax' over time towards lower species richness.

Intensively grazed fields had lower species numbers, lower density and diversity than extensively grazed grassland but were still much more species rich and diverse than the fertilised fields.

Eucalyptus plantations had a lower species richness and abundance than the abandoned pasture and the remaining fragments of native vegetation.