Sentence examples for population plummets from inspiring English sources

To explain this kind of collapse, ecologists have long theorized that populations suffering a decline in environmental conditions (such as overfishing) appear stable until they reach a tipping point where the population plummets.

He's said, not entirely jokingly, that he looks forward to the time when Tokyo is submerged by the ocean and the NTV tower becomes an island, when the human population plummets and there are no more high-rises.

Despite seeming to be in abundance because of their noisy antics and attraction to urban and inhabited environments, experts say the birds are severely at risk, with just 27,800 breeding pairs left nationwide, and the main offshore breeding colonies suffering population plummets of 80%to100%0% since the mid-1960s.

Remove the microbe, and the stinkbug's population plummets, effectively rendering it harmless.

Within months, the toad population plummeted.

It is estimated that its population plummeted by more than 90% during the 20th century.

Between 2009 and 2014, the country's elephant population plummeted from 109,051 to 43,330.

The fox population plummeted from more than 1,000 to fewer than 100 animals today.

Population plummeted in 1930 when the Martinez railroad bridge opened, replacing the ferry crossing.

Kiyosato has seen its population plummet from a peak of 11,000 in the early 1960s to just 4,675 today.

About 50,000 grizzly bears once covered North America, but their population plummeted in the 1850s with widespread hunting and trapping.