Sentences with phrase «risk for extinction»

About half the species are declining in numbers, including one in five of those not at risk for extinction right now.

Animals will be at risk for extinction, and so on.

The coastal marten, a small but fierce forest predator, is at a high risk for extinction in Oregon and northern California in the next 30 years due to threats from human activities, according to a new study.

During initial infection, HIV is at high risk for extinction because mucosal tissue — the typical entry point for the virus — is a particularly volatile environment for HIV, with few target cells available that can be infected.

The ability to measure risk for extinction from conformation events involved seven elements that were used as indicators for declining litters, registrations and show entries.

Table 4 shows a list of the 60 breeds considered at greatest risk for extinction in the conformation sport.

This study focused on four major factors thought to be related to a breed's risk for extinction from the conformation sport.

Sushi and sashimi lovers take note: Overfishing has caused a dramatic decline in the bluefish tuna population, with the species at risk for extinction in some areas, according to a series of studies by the Census of Marine Life and other researchers.

These practices displace (or kill) native species — like the Sumatran tiger, the Asian rhinoceros, and the Sumatran orangutan — putting them at high risk for extinction and causing a negative effect on the ecosystem as a whole.

«The explanation may be that a stable climate makes it more likely that diverging lineages persist without going extinct or merging until speciation is completed, and stability reduces the risk for extinction in response to climatic upheavals,» says Roland Jansson, researcher from Umeå University who led the study.

But many of those won't be around much longer; one out of every eight known bird species, one in four mammal species, and one in three amphibian species are at risk for extinction, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN), which maintains the Red List, a catalog of the world's species classified according to their risk of extinction.

This combined scenario may have increased their risk for extinction.»

William Sutherland, a population biologist at the University of East Anglia, has shown that the places on Earth with the most biodiversity are the most linguistically diverse as well and that languages are even more at risk for extinction than are birds or mammals.

Of those species, the list designates 108 as at risk for extinction.

While acknowledging the population's uniqueness, in 2006 the Service failed to acknowledge significant evidence of its risk for extinction.

This study focused on four major factors related to the risk for extinction from the conformation sport.

Threatened or Endangered: Yes Population: Whereas in the 1940's, coho salmon in California were estimated to number between 200,000 and 500,000, today's population is estimated to have fallen to 1 percent of historic levels, and the coho of the Central California Coast are considered to be at high risk for extinction.

Roughly 25 % of North American bats are now classified at risk for extinction (Hammerson et al, 2017), in large part due to the explosion of wind turbines across the landscape.