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.
The author, not prone to psychologizing, declines to say just why he submitted to her manipulation — even after their divorce, and in fact until his death.
Demand for government debt increased in New York trading as Mr. Bernanke said the economy was prone to further declines in the inflation rate, even while growth is "reasonably strong".
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.
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.
One large study in the U.S. Midwest, for example, found that people in their 60s and older who ate a mostly Mediterranean diet were less prone to mental decline as they aged.
Furthermore, self-report measures are more prone to cognitive decline and a social desirability response bias.
