Sentence examples for rainforest is likely from inspiring English sources

Although Texaco is now owned by Chevron, the company spent 28 years from 1964 to 1992 devastating the northern Ecuadorian Amazon, and expansion into the remainder of the rainforest is likely to be just as destructive.

Although Texaco is now owned by Chevron, the company spent 28 years – from 1964 to 1992 – devastating the northern Ecuadorian Amazon, and expansion into the remainder of the rainforest is likely to be just as destructive.

Also, the wet and humid tropics (e.g. Asian and American humid rainforests) are likely to be constrained by solar radiation (Nemani et al. 2003; Graham et al. 2003), which we did not measure directly in this study.

Increased drought in the east may favor a shift from rainforest to seasonal forest, whereas the northwest Amazon is likely to maintain rainforest conditions [109].

A shift in West Africa towards more ecotone-like morphology is likely responsible for the increase in divergence between regions, and occurs in all traits in which we detected significant rainforest-ecotone divergence in Central Africa.

Species affected by rainforest fragmentation are likely to be wiped out more quickly than previously thought, scientists have warned.

The Wilcoxon Mann–Whitney test indicated that the two sets of Fu's values for the savannah and rainforest populations are likely to be drawn from two differing distributions (p-value = 6.817e-06) the median values of the Fu's statistic being −24.794 and −9.499 respectively.

"A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is likely a descendent of the very first ants to evolve.

For species occupying homogeneous environments such as the understory of tropical rainforests or deserts with little canopy cover, the availability of microclimates is likely to be reduced.

Where heritabilities are very low, there is likely to be limited evolutionary potential to adapt, as in the case of the response of rainforest Drosophila to low humidity conditions (Kellermann et al. 2006, 2009).

On a moonless night deep in a Brazilian rainforest the only thing you are likely to see are the tiny smears of light from flitting fireflies or the ghostly glow of mushrooms scattered around the forest floor.