Sentence examples for prone to decline from inspiring English sources

Over a 50-year time horizon, we find that populations of California gnatcatchers and Pacific pocket mouse are highly variable, and the pocket mouse is particularly prone to decline, despite prescribed burns designed to boost population viability.

Awed by the sheer quantity of eggs a typical marine fish produces, many scientists and fisheries managers today remain convinced that fish are less prone to decline and extinction than other vertebrates.

Agarwal et al. (2002) reference the product life cycle theory and state that the time of entrance into a product market significantly influences survival chances, as mature phase entrants are considerably more prone to decline than early and growth phase entrants.

The retest of advanced cancer patients is challenging because they are in a dynamic phase of their disease in which symptoms and functionality are prone to decline quickly.

This suggests that there are aspects of the PISA test questions that may be inherently more prone to declines in student engagement than others.

A retrospective study in East Anglia found that the proportion of babies exposed to the hazardous front sleeping position roughly halved between 1989 and 1990 – from 37% to 19% [ 28] and Gilbert et al [ 29] showed that the proportion of babies sleeping prone started to decline before 1990.

Exxon Mobil has been struggling to keep its dominant position by investing heavily in large oil sands and liquefied natural gas projects, which are expensive but not prone to the declining production of more traditional oil fields.

English boxwood (Buxus sempervirens Suffruticosa) is prone to boxwood decline, in which mature shrubs turn brown and brittle, the foliage wilts and, in severe cases, the plant dies.