Sentence examples for reduced biodiversity from inspiring English sources

This massacre of the natural environment has reduced biodiversity and pushed the remaining fauna into closer contact with humans.

Agricultural intensification has reduced biodiversity and leads to fundamental trade-offs between food production and conservation.

Patches can also display reduced biodiversity because their spatial or temporal structures are correlated with habitat quality (e.g. indirect effects).

Costs include changing local environments, where reduced biodiversity translates into the loss of culturally valuable indigenous species in Kenya (Stave et al. 2007), and in southern Afar is linked to the loss of livestock forage and fodder (Mehari 2015).

A recently created habitat might suffer from a reduced biodiversity because of the absence of adapted species that need a certain amount of time to colonize the new patch (e.g. direct meta-population effect).

In many regions of the world, grazing has reduced the density and biomass of many plant and animal species, reduced biodiversity, aided in the spread of exotic species and disease, altered ecological succession and landscape heterogeneity, altered nutrient cycles and distribution, accelerated erosion, and diminished both the productivity and land use options for future generations.

"Phragmites dramatically reduces biodiversity," he said.

Nations have also failed to meet a promise to reduce biodiversity loss, according to the OECD.

Even the Green Revolution had unintended side effects, bankrupting small farmers and reducing biodiversity.

In addition to reducing biodiversity and injuring livestock, these fire ants damage electrical systems and incite increased use of pesticides.

It is impossible to reduce biodiversity into a system of credits as envisaged by many offsetting systems.