Sentence examples for species collapse from inspiring English sources
Another problem is that, according to a recent study, most fish are slow to adapt to acidification, leading to a risk of species collapse.
Those who work in the gulf seafood industry, as well as their lawyers, have watched closely for signs of a species collapse similar to the one that decimated the herring fishery four years after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska.
Anticipation of an imminent tipping point mandates detection of its early-warning signals to permit timely intervention, particularly when the transition is unwelcome (e.g., species collapse) or pathological (e.g., seizure onset).
Anthropogenic environmental change has been linked to several cases of vertebrate hybridization and subsequent species collapse [6].
The ultimate consequences of these behavioral and morphological changes are currently unknown, but projections are outlined by Candolin (2009), and eutrophication has been linked to species collapse at a contemporary time scale (Vonlanthen et al. 2012).
In part because opportunities for additional harvests of wild fish stocks are limited (i.e., additional harvest could result in species collapse from over-fishing), aqua-culture has grown at a rate of 7 9% per year in the past decade, making it the fastest growing food production industry in the world (FAO 2008).
The White-letter Hairstreak Picture credit: PA (Satyrium w-album): this species collapsed as a result of Dutch elm disease in the 1970s.
Thereafter, bottomfish landings went into terminal decline, with all species collapsing to zero or near zero landings by the early 21st century.
As shown previously, ND or rapamycin (125 nM) for 25 min causes Maf1 dephosphorylation, where higher molecular weight phospho-species collapse to an apparent single band of ∼50 kDa in western blot analysis (Oficjalska-Pham et al, 2006; Roberts et al, 2006).
Evidence of human-caused catastrophe mounts daily with grim reports from sea, sky and land: disappearing species, the collapse of fisheries, deforestation, the shrinking ozone layer, higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, oceanic dead zones, warming temperatures, extreme weather, rising sea levels, depleted aquifers, melting glaciers, thawing permafrost.
A famous study published in the journal Science in 2006 predicted that, absent efforts to reverse the trend, all known commercial seafood species faced collapse by mid-century.
