Sentence examples for range has contracted from inspiring English sources

The yellow-breasted bunting was one of the most widespread birds across Europe and Asia but its population has declined by 90% since 1980 and its range has contracted by 5,000km.

In addition to its plummeting population, the lesser prairie chicken's range has contracted and fragmented into small refugia found in portions of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

Their range has contracted as well, and currently encompasses only 20percentt of their former territory.

In the wild, their range has contracted due to human activities, and they are listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.

Its range has contracted to the waters around the Italian Peninsula, where there may be a nursery area.

In Southeast Asia, its range has contracted at lower elevations due to global warming, but it has also moved higher at high elevations and it remains common.

Geographic ranges have contracted for numerous species, including the indri, greater bamboo lemur, and ruffed lemurs.

Hewitt [ 44] analysed the effects of recurrent ice ages and concluded that species ranges have contracted and expanded repeatedly.

includes numerous isolated populations that are presumably relicts of a formerly larger range that has contracted due to spreading aridity following the end of the Pleistocene.

Although the northern range of the species has contracted, it is believed that the breeding range extends southward farther than previously thought (Farquhar and Gonzalez 2005).

In California, the breeding range of this species has contracted during the last century, and "the disappearance of the Swainson's Thrush from Yosemite Valley is one of the unsolved mysteries of Sierran ornithology" (Marshall 1988: 367, citing Beedy and Granholm 1985).