Sentences with phrase «species loss due»

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The bee population has been declining in the past few decades — 700 bee species are heading toward extinction — due to changes in agricultural processes, habitat loss, and pesticides.

Maybe you meant the opposite and were talking about humans: those humans who aren't so bright tend to reproduce more because their God told them to or because they won't use birth control and now they are overpopulating the planet leading to a loss of natural resources and the ultimate demise of the species due to ignorance.

This species» population has dropped significantly in recent years, in part due to loss of milkweed, the food plant for their caterpillars.

Tigers are endangered, largely due to habitat loss, hunting and overhunting of prey species.

In 2012, research by FFI and partners led to the species being formally designated as critically endangered due to its small population size and threats from hunting and habitat loss.

Then Westerners arrived and bird populations started to disappear more quickly due to a combination of threats, including habitat loss, introduction of invasive species and the arrival of diseases such as avian malaria.

+ / - 500,000: km2 of land is degraded due to factors such as deforestation, unsustainable agriculture, overgrazing, uncontrolled mining activities, invasive alien species and climate change, leading to soil erosion, salinization, pollution, and loss of vegetation or soil fertility

Such biodiversity loss usually occurs on a large scale, and is due to habitat destruction, invasive species, overexploitation and climate change.

But just like all wild plant species, these «crop wild relatives» (CWR) are also at risk of decline and extinction due to habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.

In the article, Minteer and his colleagues cite examples of the decline or loss of a range of animal species due to the impact of field collections by both professional scientists and amateur naturalists.

The report, compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), shows that well over half the threats to tree species arise from loss of habitat, due to agriculture or human settlement.

Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.

When plant species disappear due to climate change, this may lead to the subsequent loss of various animal species.

«The loss of nest sites due to damage to the environment is an important cause of species extinctions.

«The lesser horseshoe bat is almost gone, mostly due to loss of habitat,» says Fairon, although it was the most common species 30 years ago.

The species is threatened by hunting and poaching, and forest loss due to farming and mining exploration, says Matthew Nowak at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme.

Colla noted that The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently assessed North American bumblebees and found that one quarter to one third of the species are at risk of extinction due to climate change and other factors such as habitat loss and disease.

These events resulted in substantial ecological and economic impacts, including sustained loss of kelp forests10, coral bleaching11, reduced surface chlorophyll levels due to increased surface layer stratification6, mass mortality of marine invertebrates due to heat stress8, 12, rapid long - distance species» range shifts and associated reshaping of community structure8, 10,13, fishery closures or quota changes8, 13,14 and even intensified economic tensions between nations15.

«Many of these other durian species are in this part of the world, and sadly some are endangered due to the increasing loss of biodiversity,» said co-lead author Dr. Teh Bin Tean, deputy director of the National Cancer Centre Singapore, in the press release.

With biodiversity loss ever increasing due to human activity, new insights into how species evolve — one of the most outstanding questions in ecology and evolutionary biology — could be more valuable than ever.

Assuming the greatest pace of economic development with little regard for the environment, the study predicted that 1,101 species would be lost over the next century due to habitat loss alone, while just 64 would be lost to climate change alone.

Almost half of plant and animal species have experienced local extinctions due to climate change, research reveals, with the tropics suffering the most pronounced loss

Additionally, approximately one - third of all parrot species are threatened with extinction due to habitat loss and the international pet trade, she says.

* Human impact: Loss of habitat due to development, radio / TV / cellular phone towers, high - rise glass buildings, power lines, wind turbines, wetland destruction to name a few have had the greatest impact on the decline of native species around the world.

The endangered black - footed ferret, which preys nearly exclusively on prairie dogs, is struggling to recover as a species due primarily to the plague - related loss of their favorite food source.

Small populations of island endemic taxa are often at risk of extirpation or extinction due to their reduced genetic diversity and increased susceptibility to genetic drift, disease, and climate change, especially in conjunction with over-exploitation, habitat loss, and predation or competition from invasive species [4 — 7].

Just the introduction of the Chestnut blight destroyed the ecosystem of the eastern United States in the early 1900s, causing catastrophic reductions in wildlife populations and the extinction of several species totally dependent on the American Chestnut, and incidently, increased the misery associated with the Great Depression due to the loss of a key agricultural crop.

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.

The Gray Bat has been on the US endangered species list since 1976 due to habitat loss.

A new report from Partners in Flight shows that about 17 % of North American land bird species (148 of 882 species) are facing rapid declines, due not in small part due to habitat loss in their winter

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.

The recent dramatic losses of thousands of honey bee colonies due to colony collapse disorder (CCD) and other causes [6], [7] has not only created great concerns in the scientific and agricultural community but has also highlighted the ever increasing risk of future crises in the global food supply due to our sole dependence on single pollinator species [8].

More specifically, changes in our climate may affect severe weather events, agricultural productivity, risk of vector - borne infectious diseases, and extinctions of higher level species due to loss of habitat.

These events resulted in substantial ecological and economic impacts, including sustained loss of kelp forests, coral bleaching, reduced surface chlorophyll levels due to increased surface layer stratification, mass mortality of marine invertebrates due to heat stress, rapid long - distance species» range shifts and associated reshaping of community structure, fishery closures or quota changes, and even intensified economic tensions between nations.»

Not well represented in the literature, however, is an emotional response we term «ecological grief,» which we have defined in a recent Nature Climate Change article: «The grief felt in relation to experienced or anticipated ecological losses, including the loss of species, ecosystems, and meaningful landscapes due to acute or chronic environmental change.»

The social cost of carbon is the discounted monetary value of future climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).

Almost half of plant and animal species have experienced local extinctions due to climate change, research reveals, with the tropics suffering the most pronounced loss

Such losses of individuals that take species towards critical viability thresholds can be very fast — within three decades or less, as already evidenced by many species now considered at risk of extinction due to causes other than climate change by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.15 The second kind of abrupt change is simply the terminal event in the extinction process — the loss of the last individual of a species.

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.

But whatever it's called, it's clear that palm oil production is leading to massive deforestation due to carbon - emitting activities like slashing and burning the forest to make way for palm plantations, as well as habitat loss for a wide variety of species like orangutans, tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants.

Like many species living on the island of Borneo, Miller's grizzled langurs have been threatened for decades from poaching and the loss of their habitat due to slash and burn agriculture.

Today, the greatest environmental threats to alligators are habitat Loss and pollution.As Florida's human population continues to expand its footprint and encroaches on alligator habitat, encounters between the two species are inevitable, but human fatalities due to alligators are rare.

Food web at risk due to loss of snow cover — key prey species such as lemmings and voles overwinter in snow tunnels.

Now, due to habitat loss and other threats, there are only around 2,500 individuals of this endangered species remaining in Kenya and less than 150 individuals in southern Ethiopia.

Assuming the greatest pace of economic development with little regard for the environment, the study predicted that 1,101 species would be lost over the next century due to habitat loss alone, while just 64 would be lost to climate change alone.