Sentences with phrase «population decrease»

This report further explores this phenomenon in terms of minority student exposure to white students and found that it has been declining over time as the white student population decreases in public schools.

Until the human population decreases significantly, nothing else stands a chance.

Both of these pathogens increased when the bee population decreased most sharply and remained at high levels throughout the remainder of the collapse.

Its Hispanic population decreased to 73 percent from 85 percent this year; 17 percent of its students are white.

Ask students: What are some things that might make an organism population decrease?

Though the number of white gifted students increased by nearly 200 students over that time frame, their share of the overall gifted population decreased.

This theory basically shows that population decreases naturally when industrial economic development is allowed.

Similarly, when temperatures are colder for several years, bee populations decrease, but they increase again in hotter periods.

The campus cat population decreased by 85 % to 23 cats in 2002, demonstrating that a long - term program of neutering plus adoption or a return to the resident colony can reduce freeroaming cat populations in urban areas (Levy et al., 2003).

As populations decrease, they become more vulnerable to chance events that precipitate extinction.

Between 2000 and 2014, middle - class populations decreased in 203 of the 229 metropolitan areas reviewed in a Pew Research Center study.

Though wild dogs can often recover faster from population decreases due to their high reproductive rate, the researchers concluded that such practices place added pressure on species that are already suffering from habitat loss and restricted ranges and require further action to monitor and minimize.

Sudden population decreased caused by the Black Death may have resulted in a decrease of agriculture and reforestation of agricultural land.

Both of these prices continue to rise as the number of insured Americans rises and the health of the insured population decreases on average.

The report goes on to say that the prison populations decrease only as people are deliberately starved, forced into excessive labor, executed, tortured, raped, are forced into having an abortion or have their children killed.

As the authors note, the vampire population increases geometrically and the human population decreases geometrically.

Assyrian Christians are one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, but in recent years, the rise of ISIS and other militant groups have led to a steady population decrease.

New York currently has 29 congressional districts; thanks to a relative population decrease in the last census, that number has to be reduced to 27.

The New York State Department of Community and Correctional Supervision has claimed that as crime rates decline and inmate populations decrease, taxpayers can not afford to continue paying for empty prison beds.

«From 2010 through 2013, the most recent survey years, the postdoctoral population decreased from 40,970 to 38,719, a loss of 5.5 %,» the October article states.

Cramer and Norris found that as one coral species, staghorn coral, increased in abundance, the long - spined urchin populations decreased.

They also found that while the NAO - induced population decrease persisted until the fish were 6 years old, it affected cod catch for up to two decades.

We are shifting our services to meet the changing needs on the ground — as shelter populations decrease, federal and state programs support more short - term housing solutions, and people look to establish a semblance of normalcy in their lives

Elsewhere, climate change - induced drought shrinks bird habitats in Turkey, while worldwide manmade noise makes it increasingly difficult for birds to communicate, creating another means of avian population decrease.

(The Orleans Parish population itself decreased by less than 1 percent, from 466,000 to 462,000, during this time.)

The fox's population decreased dramatically following the colonization of the Channel Islands by the Golden Eagle.

Red foxes will avoid close proximity to jackals and fox populations decrease where jackals are abundant.

The arroyos and washes became filled with the Naha Alluvium, and the human population decreased markedly.

In the chart at right (Fig. 19 from the Kids Count Report), you can see the proportion of the White population decreasing over time and the Hispanic, Black and Other categories growing.

According to a study done by the Pew Research Center, between 2000 and 2014, middle - class populations decreased in 203 of the 229 metropolitan areas.

«If the bee population decreases due to pollution and contaminants, honey product may decline and make it hard to source local honeys,» she said.

Santa Cruz County's population decreased by 152 people in 2016.

Under 2007 BASE Budget County funding, full - time staffing will have DECREASED 361.5 positions and 63 % from 1975 levels while Erie County's population decreased from 1,113,491 in the 1970 census to 950,265 in the 2000 census, a 15 % drop.

Populations decreased in three out of five protected areas analyzed, including two national parks.

Some of us are trying mightily to avoid a future where there is a period of collapse, which can be defined as mortality - driven human population decrease.

The Pittsburgh area also saw a population decrease while the Milwaukee metropolitan area squeaked by with a gain of less than 100 people, Frey said.

Rusty Patched bumble bees have recently experienced a 95 % population decrease.

Preliminary Census data showed that Washington Heights saw a population decrease of close to 10 percent, with 15,554 people leaving the area since 2000.

Consequently, a state may gain seats in the House if its population grows or lose seats if its population decreases, relative to populations in other states.

Under the 2008 BASE Budget County funding, full - time staffing will have DECREASED 346.5 positions and 60 % from 1975 levels while Erie County's population decreased 15 % from 1,113,491 in the 1970 census to 950,265 in the 2000 census.

Under the 2006 proposed County budget, full - time B&ECPL staffing over the period will have DECREASED 358 positions and 62 %, while Erie County's population decreased from 1,113,491 in the 1970 census to 950,265 in the 2000 census, a 15 % reduction.

Here, the population decreased by 2,081 people, or 0.4 percent.

«Mountain yellow - legged frogs in the Sierra Nevada have experienced a population decrease of over 90 percent in recent years.

Since 2000 the 50 fastest - growing counties by population decreased their per capita emissions by only 12 percent — a reduction that was not enough to offset the total emissions growth in those same areas.