Sentences with phrase «caused precipitous declines»

The study revealed that in plots where A. septentrionalis naturally occurs, warming caused precipitous declines in the abundance of both its seedlings and established plants at reproductive ages, driving population sizes close to zero.

That incident caused a precipitous decline in the relations between the two countries, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov telling reporters that the incident seemed like a «planned provocation.»

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Following the distribution, a number of smaller, illiquid securities observed enormous selloffs — causing a massive imbalance in supply and demand, and resulting in a precipitous decline in the market value of certain companies.

If one frames the question differently, and asks whether there is any known physical climate mechanism that might have caused such a precipitous global decline over the last century, the answer would be definitively «No».

In summary, precipitous decline in the growth rate of GHG forcing about 25 years ago caused a decrease in the rate of growth of the total climate forcing and thus a flattening of the planetary energy imbalance over the past two decades.