Other major groups, which included the ammonoids, brachiopods, bryozoans (moss animals), corals, and crinoids (cuplike echinoderms with five or more feathery arms), were severely decimated but managed to survive.
In Castanea dentata (American chestnut), genetic variation in susceptibility towards the blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica was also observed (Griffin 2000), but C. dentata has still been severely decimated since the early 1900s.
And the banking system is still decimated.
They are hiding from a war that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced 2.2 million inside and outside the country, left 4.6 million severely food insecure, and decimated an already weak economy.
"Decimated houses, decimated health care, decimated schools.
Anyway, she goes on: "And the leadership of al-Qaeda, in many ways, has been decimated, has been severely beat back.
It almost entirely decimated crops in severely-affected regions, and killed up to 80percentt of livestock in certain areas.
The natives were decimated, but the Spanish were also severely crippled, losing most of their equipment and all their pearls.
When I received word after the May 22 tornado that decimated the city of Joplin that East Middle School had been severely damaged, I imagined the worst and my first visit to what was left of the campus did nothing to dispel my fears.
The tribe's population has also been decimated in violent land disputes, with the 450 remaining Awá severely outnumbered by thousands of loggers.
But bat populations are severely threatened, especially the commonest species, the little brown bat, which is being decimated by a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome.
