Sentence examples for reducing the abundance from inspiring English sources
It strongly influences boreal forest structure and function, and alters microbial biomass and species composition e.g. by significantly reducing the abundance of decomposing fungi.
The study presented by Elisabeth Berger (Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt, Germany) demonstrated the important role played by pesticides, industrial chemicals and wastewater-associated micropollutants in reducing the abundance of sensitive aquatic invertebrates.
Simple analytical models of tick- and tsetse-borne diseases suggest that reducing the abundance of ticks, by treating cattle with pyrethroids for example, can have a variety of effects on tick-borne diseases.
Our results demonstrate that imidacloprid can be effective in reducing the abundance of aphids in Chinese cabbage fields, but the degree of control can be even stronger in the presence of Eβf.
The willow bed was shown to be an efficient prefilter for reducing the abundance of particulate and organic matter, leaving the bulk of the remaining nutrients in forms that could be recovered in subsequent treatment steps.
By reducing the abundance of sperm whales in the Southern Ocean, whaling has resulted in an extra 2 million tonnes of carbon remaining in the atmosphere each year.
On d 3, selenite reduced the abundance of ubiquitinated proteins by 40%, and coincides with reduced proteasome activity.
Where O. rusticus has become abundant in Wisconsin and Michigan lakes, it has displaced resident crayfishes, reduced the abundance and richness of macrophytes and macroinvertebrates, and caused declines in the abundance of panfish (Lepomis spp).
Periodic light ground fires reduce the abundance and vigour of crowberry and allow tree regeneration.
Inflammation reduces the abundance of another protein, elafin, which inhibits elastase's action.
Because it helps to reduce the abundance of cats and foxes, removing it has a detrimental knock-on effect for native species.
