Sentences with phrase «decreased plant diversity»
The decline in herb - like plants hastened the decline in the woolly mammoth population, leading to a cycle that decreased the plant diversity further (8 February, p 12).
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Many native plants can not thrive under these unusual circumstances, which is why the species diversity of the forest understory is decreasing.
First, fossil leaves and pollen excavated from the layers immediately below the K - T boundary show that the diversity of flowering plants substantially decreased in patches throughout the region before the extraterrestrial impact.
«Insect diversity decreases in gardens with non-native plants.»
«Once the diversity of plants decreases, as this paper indicates is true for the relatives of ginkgo, animal life also declines.»
Increasing plant diversity also decreases the amount of damage slugs do to individual plants.
Wild plant species have greater resistance to disease than farmed crops; a decrease in genetic diversity may result in a greater risk of food loss due to epidemics.