Sentence examples for sensitive to pollution from inspiring English sources
The lichen Parmotrema pilosum is sensitive to pollution and it can live accumulating airborne pollutants for long time, such characteristic allows its use as biomonitor for environmental mapping in urban areas when this epiphytic specie is available.
But they agreed frogs may be particularly sensitive to pollution, since they inhabit earth, air and water.
Readings of 100 or above are classified as "very high" and come with the advice that people who are sensitive to pollution should reduce outdoor activities.
For example, some species that are sensitive to pollution, will decrease in number drastically or, if too sensitive, may completely disappear.
The greatest numbers of species are found at sites that offer a wide variety of microhabitats, though dragonflies tend to be much more sensitive to pollution than are damselflies.
Although in the last weeks of life, her presence was good news for Burbage Brook: dragonflies are sensitive to pollution and are a useful indicator of a healthy environment.
Studies suggest that diabetic patients are especially sensitive to pollution-triggered cardiovascular events (3, 4).
Although this study identifies an association between air pollution and PTD, PTD may be less sensitive to air pollution, possibly because of the postulated multifactorial nature of this health outcome.
Our results also indicate that immune cells are very sensitive to environmental pollution and emphasize the synergistic effect of multiple pollutants in disease progression.
We hypothesize that (a) total diversity (taxonomic and functional) is sensitive to copper pollution (disturbance); (b) non-indigenous diversity (taxonomic and functional) is more tolerant to copper pollution than native diversity; (c) this scenario may differ across (tropic and temperate) regions.
Functional diversity was consistently less sensitive to copper pollution than species richness possibly because toxicant sensitivities are considered to be highly species specific and substitution within functional groups may obscure structural impacts on communities.
