Sentence examples for proximate threats from inspiring English sources

Our analysis considered habitat loss and human population density, but not proximate threats to flat-headed cats such as hunting, over-fishing or fresh-water pollution.

Pressey et al. (2007) emphasised that proximate threats are dynamic and they require planners to track and predict spatial changes in threats over time.

Proximate threats include logging, clearing, agricultural expansion, urbanization, grazing, expansion of infrastructure, mining, invasion by exotic species, hydrological changes, and salinization (Wilson et al., 2005 a, b ).

Success in addressing these ultimate drivers of loss lies in tackling the proximate threats (from agriculture, forestry and infrastructure development) using more sustainable production methods, along with underlying causes such as a lack of control of land-use planning in many highly biodiverse countries.

This activity burst was similar to activity bursts observed in rodents exposed to a footshock (Fanselow, 1982; Kiernan et al., 1995) and is considered part of the repertoire of rodent defensive behaviors, presumably evoked in nature by a high intensity and/or proximate threat (Anisman and Waller, 1973; Bolles and Riley, 1973; Fanselow and Lester, 1988; Fanselow, 1994).

Unlike stranding investigations in the southeastern USA where turtles drift considerable distances after offshore mortality [24], we assume most turtles and most population threats are proximate to coasts.

The focus on insecurity highlights that people are much more concerned with threats perceived as proximate to their daily lives.

If, as has been shown in the interviews, there is a prioritization of security concerns according to what threats are most proximate, then the issue of trust in the government should be related to this framing.

As distinct threat adaptations co-opt proximate mechanisms related to anxiety, focusing on anxiety-reduction risks obscuring important functional differences.

Park and protected area managers are tasked with protecting natural environments, a particularly daunting challenge in heavily visited urban-proximate areas where flora and fauna are already stressed by external threats.

In contrast, evolutionary thinking favors hypothesizing multiple functions designed to strategically manage specific threats (e.g., pathogen threats should motivate responses targeted to deter contagion), and views anxiety as a proximate tool rather than an ultimate problem.