Sentence examples for prone to extinction from inspiring English sources

There is nothing special about the islands of the Pacific that makes their animals and plants prone to extinction.

Is there something about living in large groups that makes eusocial species more prone to extinction, or are their preferred host sponges most susceptible to change?

It was the same factors that made them evolve rapidly, however, that made them prone to extinction.

In particular, species that need active management for their survival may be more prone to extinction than later successional species.

Furthermore, larger-bodied insectivores and omnivores were more prone to extinction due to shrub encroachment compared to small-bodied species.

"Yeti crabs and other such creatures may in fact be especially prone to extinction when there is less oxygen available in the deep ocean," said Dr Roterman.

Inspection of the model-predicted species profiles suggest that the enhancement of CH4 burning rates with H2 addition is driven by early H2 breakdown increasing radical production rates early in the flame zone to enhance CH4 ignition under conditions where otherwise CH4 combustion might be prone to undergo extinction.

A growing body of evidence indicates that large-bodied species, with sizeable home ranges that occur at low densities and feed at higher trophic levels, are more prone to local extinction in habitat fragments [17], [19], [33], [34].

Geographically restricted and deeply divergent genealogical lineages of taxa with low dispersal capabilities are therefore prone to local extinction, since immigrants from more viable, distant habitats cannot easily replenish populations depleted of genetic diversity.

In the present case, this was done out of necessity since we observed that the CBS Synura strain was the only one capable of maintaining Brachionus populations at densities that were not prone to rapid extinction.

In a conservation context, where some authors have argued for the use of a threshold of 10 effective migrants per generation as a minimum to counteract local extinction risks [ 31], the overall low number of migrants encountered here is cause for concern because isolated populations are clearly prone to local extinction.