Sentences with phrase «heavily impacted areas»

It's likely, Betts added, that heavily impacted areas have already gone through what scientists call an «extinction filter.»

One heavily impacted area is the Blackstone River watershed, which spans 545 square miles and encompasses thousands of acres of rivers, ponds, lakes, and reservoirs.

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With thin margins and business heavily concentrated in the Los Angeles area, we expressed doubt that LOCO could successfully expand eastward, and we pointed out the impact California's rising minimum wage would have on margins.

The blow would fall heavily on the states whose coal provides most of our electricity and on rural areas where electric costs have the most impact.

«The most clear and dramatic impact of the zebra mussel on other animals has been the elimination of native clams from heavily infested areas of the Great Lakes.

Commercial poaching and wildlife trafficking, committed by heavily armed groups moving across borders as well as local actors, has greatly impacted the area.

«It may be possible to protect, and even encourage, wildlife in these areas at relatively low and sustainable economic costs without heavily impacting palm oil production.»

We expected to see a gradient from least affected in the selectively logged areas, to heavily impacted for the streams in oil palm plantations.

The researchers argue that these intact areas deserve higher priority for limited conservation dollars than areas already impacted heavily by human activity even though species are also threatened in the impacted areas.

It is an area that Morris Animal Foundation continues to invest in heavily, particularly as we see more species negatively impacted by changes in their habitats.»

Mindoro's Mangyan indigenous communities would also be heavily impacted by the mine, as the proposed mining area is within their ancestral land.

This «forced» cell is heavily impacted by the dynamic processes in the much larger tropical area, with geostrophic winds enhanced by a larger Coriolis force at a higher latitude.

«We expected to see a gradient from least affected in the selectively logged areas, to heavily impacted for the streams in oil palm plantations.

(07/17/2013) 80 percent of the rainforests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging, finds a comprehensive study that offers the first assessment of the spread of industrial logging and logging roads across areas that were considered some of Earth's wildest lands less than 30 years ago.

As these areas expand they will begin pushing into more heavily populated areas, with potentially severe impacts on society.

After learning about the devastation that occured in other areas due to Hurricane Irma, Fuchs was thankful that his town was not heavily impacted.

A grant from CREDO members would have a significant impact on the three main areas that the Brady Center focuses on: reducing the flow of crime guns into communities most heavily impacted by gun violence, expanding and protecting the Brady Background Check system and changing the cultural perception that owning or carrying a gun makes you safer.

Great resumes provide very succinct information on the scope of responsibility (areas, budget, and team size), while focusing heavily on the challenges faced, the precise actions taken in response to those challenges, and the overall impact those actions had on the business.