Sentence examples for sensitive to extinction from inspiring English sources

This species would have been extremely sensitive to extinction due to its rare and fragmented aquatic habitat in the southern Levant [32].

The larger species may also have been more sensitive to extinction due to intrinsic traits: in mammalian species there is a negative relationship between reproductive rate and body size, large mammals reproducing much more slowly than smaller ones, and thus are much more susceptible to overhunting than smaller ones [15].

Second, the response rate measure conflates various performance parameters that may be differentially sensitive to extinction contingencies.

This is a conservative estimate of marine threat level because although they may be more intrinsically sensitive to extinction drivers, charismatic species are more likely to garner awareness of their status and support for monitoring and conservation (McClenachan et al., 2012).

She also claims the initiative will also reverse the present trend that's been pushing rare and sensitive species to extinction, caused by centuries of indiscriminate trapping across public lands.

Most interestingly, extinction of cue-elicited reward-seeking was sensitive to renewal, with extinction less effective for reducing PIT when conducted in a different context.

They were as sensitive to FU-induced extinction as LCMV populations and clones treated in parallel, but without a history of FU mutagenesis.

Indeed, it is possible that older clades might be more sensitive to the BPP choice because extinction is likely to be a more important component of their evolutionary histories.

For all the experimental conditions, extinction is more sensitive to variation in the mass fraction of oxygen in the oxidizer stream than that of methane in the fuel stream.

The main goal of this experiment was to provide initial empirical evidence for our prediction that extinction should be sensitive to the presence or absence of a cover hiding the drinking receptacle.

Since extinction time is very sensitive to changes in the mutation rate, it is conceivable that the anthropogenic release of mutagenic substances could lead to such a strong increase in mutation rate that extinction times are predicted to be in time frames that are frequently considered by conservation biologists.