Sentence examples for spread of pest from inspiring English sources

Our assessment reveals that the introduction and spread of pest species are potentially important but often overlooked consequences of oyster cultivation.

As a consequence, biosecurity, including the protection against the spread of pest species, is emerging as one of the most important issues facing the international community [ 2].

"Increasing global trade does mean that our plants face increased threat from the spread of pests and diseases," she said.

And she hoped they might check the spread of pests like mealybugs and scale insects that are a bane of gardeners everywhere.

Some thought the most pressing aspect of climate change was rising sea levels; others, the growing intensity of storms and droughts; and others the spread of pests and diseases.

Mr. Gore does a cogent job of explaining how global warming can disrupt delicate ecological balances, resulting in the spread of pests (like the pine beetle, whose migration used to be slowed by colder winters), increases in the range of disease vectors (including mosquitoes, ticks and fleas), and the extinction of a growing number of species.

This configuration will not be changed in the future as long as the spread of pests such as the corn rootworm will not limit maize production.

The hot and humid weather of Taiwan causes a wide spread of pests and a great loss to Taiwan's agriculture.

By comparison with most other sources of impact, the spread of pests by aquaculture activities can occur at regional scales, potentially leading to ecologically significant and irreversible changes to coastal ecosystems.

Climate change is already diminishing coffee yields by disrupting pollinators, facilitating the spread of pests, and causing both short-term extreme weather events and long-term environmental change.

Planting near other members of the cabbage family, or where these plants have been placed in previous years, can prompt the spread of pests and disease.