Sentence examples for substantial population decline from inspiring English sources
With a substantial population decline over the years, and the effects of urban blight and abandoned buildings, the Motor City has a plan to downsize.
Following the demographic expansion of M. murinus during the Quaternary, our results suggest recent and substantial population decline of this species beginning approximately 160 Ka and continuing to the present.
Illegal cutting of trees has become a problem, but uncontrolled fires, which have caused substantial population declines, dwarf this threat.
These forces have resulted in substantial population declines in at least central Thailand and Cambodia.
Researchers from the Center for Global Development expect that the IDA's collection of eligible borrowing countries will decrease by half by the year 2025 (marking the 65th anniversary of the association's establishment) due to graduations and that remaining borrowers will consist primarily of African countries and will face substantial population declines.
Exploitation is ongoing with apparently little abatement, resulting in substantial population declines, even within protected areas (Chown 2010; Craigie et al. 2010; Jackson 2010; Laurance et al. 2012).
Animals that have not made an appropriate shift can suffer substantial population declines (Both et al. 2006; Ludwig et al. 2006).
Other species, like capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), suffer from substantial habitat loss resulting in a population decline.
Fertility decline leads to substantial population aging and a rising dependency burden.
During the 1990s, however, eastern Siberia (at least according to official statistics) suffered a dramatic population decline, a result of substantial outmigrations caused by the phaseout of heavy government subsidies, upon which it was heavily dependent.
While significant genetic drift could be detected within the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi PA, which experienced a strong founder event, the Marromeu buffalo population decline and re-growth does not seem to have led to a substantial loss of heterozygosity and differentiation.
