Sentence examples for tenuous ecosystem from inspiring English sources

The bar's tenuous ecosystem unravels: economic anxiety begets racial resentment (Tracey thinks that Cynthia got the promotion because she's black), xenophobia (a Colombian busboy who works as a scab is targeted), and violence.

It's a fragile ecosystem.

From a human perspective the Earth may be considered as a single interconnected ecosystem, and given our tenuous understanding and control over the environment as well as our own behaviors, ever-looming specters of social collapse or even extinction dictate enacting immediate off-world diversification and self-preservation efforts.

However, biodiversity in marine systems has received only a fraction of the attention afforded to that in terrestrial environments [15], [16] and the link between biodiversity and ecosystem function is more tenuous [17] We know now that biodiversity in the sea especially in the deep sea is probably as great as on land, but far fewer marine species have been described to date [18], [19], [20].

But ultimately this does mean that Spotify gains control over tech that underpins its rivals' offerings, which is always going to be a tenuous line to walk at best when entire ecosystems depend on the products involved.

"Bees are vitally important insects that we need for the pollination services they provide, but in many cases, we still have a tenuous grasp of our own natural fauna and their role in the broader ecosystem," Dr. Gibbs said.

Within southern Africa's savanna ecosystems, woody and herbaceous species have differing growth characteristics that allow a tenuous co-existance.

But in changing the game Pitchfork helped create its own ecosystem of stars, making the idea of being indie, whatever that might mean, less of a frightening, tenuous, risky thing.

The calm is tenuous.

A tenuous calm reigns.

The estuary is the most productive ecosystem in the world, but coastal industrial, commercial, residential and navigational waterway development have compromised the viability of the salt marshes, and currently, their welfare is tenuous at best.