Sentence examples for much less ecological from inspiring English sources

As in southern Bali, people consider the mountain situated to the north to be sacred and the southern ocean unclean (Toru, 1993a, b, c, d).Compared with the land, the sea shows much less ecological resistance, so distant coastal populations and cultures still share similarities and more frequent movement and mixture adds difficulty in dividing waters.

Removing a leader, even if done "successfully," doesn't solve any underlying geopolitical problems, much less ecological, social, or economic ones.

As a result indigenous multilayered plant communities have been completely removed in many parts and are replaced by open fields, shrubs or grass savanna of much less ecological value.

Most fire research has focused on the dry forest types, and much less is known about the ecological impacts of increased wildfire activity in the moist forests and the potential for adapting to these changes through forest management.

While the toxicity of isothiocyanates, whose formation does not require specifier proteins, and their role as direct chemical defenses have been proven in various studies [ 17, 23, 25], much less is known about the ecological roles of the alternative breakdown products.

In this light, the finding that cooperative interactions mix more than other ecological interactions seems much less surprising.

While naturally occurring gradients are likely to produce new adaptations that are predictable in geographic and phenotypic spaces, adaptations to human-modified ecosystems appear much less predictable, because of more abrupt ecological variation and their network-like spatial organization over distribution ranges.

Although much is known about the application of green roofs across Europe, much less is known about their application across North America's diverse ecological regions.

Of course, flowery rhetoric with images of blooming arid zones stands in stark contrast to the ecological disaster that surrounds the Aral Sea today, where environmental degradation is associated with much less radical geoengineering projects4.

Further, our data demonstrate the application of ecological theory to fungi [8], despite the fact that phenotypic variation of individuals is much less obvious than in higher organisms like plants.

The IBI approach has been much less commonly applied to wetlands, despite the legal, policy and scientific need to assess wetland condition and develop ecological performance goals for wetland creation, restoration and enhancement.