Sentence examples for temporal decline from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, a temporal decline in the reversible adsorption capacity was also observed, which was particularly severe for dry feed operation.

Thus, responses of growth, mortality and net biomass change to temporal declines in water availability may be less dependent on local site conditions (to which communities are adapted) and more dependent on the magnitude of temporal decline.

The rapid temporal decline in surface response indicated that surface armoring or sediment exhaustion is stabilizing surfaces within decades of exposure from the LIA maximum (ca. 1910) at Small River Glacier.

In addition to a temporal decline in historical dating, there are eruption size trends: 22% of M4-4.9 eruptions are dated by historical means, whilst only 8% of M5-5.9, 3% of M6-6.9 and 0.8% of M7-7.9 eruptions are dated in this way.

However, we did find an overall temporal decline in net biomass change driven by higher loss from mortality over the past half-century in response, consistent with other studies in the region (Ma et al. 2012; Chen and Luo 2015; Chen et al. 2016) highlighting the negative impact of reduced water availability.

This temporal decline could be related to illegal poisoning [17] and recent changes in the abundance, distribution and quality of carrion available to avian scavengers as a consequence of EU regulations derived from the BSE crisis [6], [18] [20].

Largest patch size and degree of coherence exhibited consistent temporal declines as deforestation proceeded within each landscape.

The anthropogenic phases with maximum fire activity corresponded to greater sensitivity of the vegetation and triggered significant changes in vegetational communities (e.g. temporal declines of Quercus ilex forests and expansion of shrublands and macchia).

To detect this 'hidden' fertility advantage of multiple mating requires experimental intervention that allows detection of temporal declines in fertility when females are denied additional matings [24].

Our finding of lower organochlorine concentrations in phase 2 of the study (1999 2003) compared to phase 1 (1994–1998) is consistent with other reports of temporal declines in exposure [ 39- 42].

Infants born later in the study had lower ∑PCB levels, likely due to temporal declines in exposure and site remediation in 1994 1995.