Sentences with phrase «extensive species losses»

Mountainous areas will face glacier retreat, reduced snow cover and winter tourism, and extensive species losses (in some areas up to 60 % under high emission scenarios by 2080).

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A common feature is the extensive loss of heterozygosity, which represents an essential source of inter-individual variation in this mainly asexual species.

We have a massive trash pile accumulating in the North Pacific, huge dead zones (no life due to lack of oxygen) along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coastline, acid rain, mercury contamination of ponds and lakes in the northeast, poor air quality, rapid loss of fish and bird species in the past 30 years and extensive loss of forests and wetlands.