Sentence examples for original fauna from inspiring English sources

As a result, much of the inland has been overgrazed, and its original fauna has become impoverished.

The fossil record also indicates that the original fauna of Lake Xiloá was more diverse than it is nowadays [ 77].

However, Lake Rukwa has also become very shallow in recent geological times and it might have dried up completely [ 41] eradicating its original fauna.

Evolutionary studies of insular biotas are based mainly on extant taxa, although such biotas represent artificial subsets of original faunas because of human-caused extinctions of indigenous species augmented by introduced exotic taxa.

This suggests that convergence to an original forest fauna composition may occur over much longer periods than examined here or may not occur at all.

Even after 100 years of restoration, the wetlands recovered only 77 percent of their original flora and fauna, on average.

Ranching, farming, and urbanization have destroyed much of the area's original flora and fauna, yet native trees such as oaks, maples, sycamores, and willows are still abundant.

We learned that there was an active effort by national park rangers and local people to ensure original flora and fauna remained and thrived.

The Forest Park covers an area of, of which 96% is forested mostly with oak and mixed oak/hornbeam forest, and contains original flora and fauna such as European badgers, red foxes, wild boar and red and roe deer.

"An ecosystem that contains just twenty-five percent of the original flora and fauna is less resilient to change".

Mauritius has lost the majority of its original vertebrate frugivorous and seed-dispersing fauna, and some studies have suggested that missing seed dispersers could be contributing to the continued decline in many of the endangered Mauritian plant species today [26], [27].