Sentences with phrase «widespread declines of»

Due to the economic and ecological importance, the researchers urge policy - makers to avoid a wait - and - see approach to the issue of widespread declines of bat populations.

A sudden widespread decline of frogs, with extinction of entire mountain - restricted species attributed to global warming [105]--[106], provided a dramatic awakening.

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Muni demand from banks and insurance companies should decline somewhat after the large corporate federal income tax rate cut from 35 % to 21 %, but we don't expect widespread liquidation of their portfolios.

This, combined with widespread moral hazard, had inevitably to result in both tremendous misuse of capital and a sharp decline in the consumption share of GDP (as the household income share declined)-- both of which of course happened to a remarkable degree in China.

In this environment of declining demand and financial contraction, there have been widespread calls to support growth through fiscal expansion and banking - system restructuring.

The vision of millions of the faithful thrilled to bits with vernacular Mass facing the people smacks of wishful thinking in the face of widespread liturgical deformation and the continuous decline in Mass attendance.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Any weakening of the family will accordingly be reflected in the decline of democracy generally, and a widespread belief in the importance and the stability of families will help to sustain democratic ideals in other spheres of life.

Children are increasingly viewed as a limitation upon individual freedom, even to the point of justifying widespread infanticide under the banner of «choice,» while overall birthrates decline across the developed world.

As ecologism becomes more widespread, consumerism will decline with no loss to the real quality of life.

Familiar also are a pair of widespread responses to the mainline's statistical decline: an increasing adaptation to conservative agendas and a growing enthusiasm for what some call the church growth movement.

Further, although there is not necessarily a causal connection between the decline of breastfeeding and the earlier introduction of solid baby food, it is highly plausible that the widespread acceptance of artificial formulas acclimated mothers and doctors alike to infants» ingestion of non-breast milk substances.

Although infant sleeping practices have gotten safer over the last twenty years — 86 percent of babies slept with bedding in 1993 to 1995, compared with 55 percent in 2008 to 2010 — study authors found that the decline has slowed since 2000, and hazardous sleeping areas are still a widespread practice, despite doctor recommendations.

In the context of a widespread sense of American decline, what seemed to be at stake was nothing less than the status of the United States as a great power and the leader of the free world.

The number of laboratory - confirmed cases of influenza has dropped across New York state, the first decline since the flu was deemed widespread in December.

[continued from previous post] And the widespread working class experience of declining wages due to competition from immigrants was one of the motivations that led many to vote for Leave, which was what the question asked for, rather than for arguments as to whether Leave or Remain was correct overall.

Patterns of widespread declines in North American bumble bees.

Regional studies suggest that marine heat waves may provoke «widespread loss of habitat - forming species such as kelps and corals, drive shifts in species distributions, alter the structure of communities and ecosystems, and have economic impacts on aquaculture and seafood industries through declines in important fishery species,» they note.

«Most news these days is about the declining utility of antibiotics as microbial resistance becomes more widespread and intractable,» said Bradley.

Given widespread observation of habitat change and individual species declines — and knowing that extinction rates are many times higher than normal — the scientists predicted a drop, over time, in the number of species observed in most of these studies.

Other papers in the same issue suggest that the global decline of coral reefs is more widespread and began much earlier than researchers once believed.

To find out if UV - B could be causing widespread decline, zoologist Wendy Palen of the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues surveyed 136 suitable breeding sites in the northwestern United States.

«We don't yet know whether cats or loss of habitat is the biggest contributor to the widespread mammal decline that we are seeing in Australia.

It's possible that children's injuries have declined because of more widespread use of safety seats, Jones said.

The lesser prairie - chicken has experienced widespread declines in abundance and distribution, with some estimates suggesting greater than a 90 percent decrease of the population.

By the 1950s, a declining mayfly population in the western basin of Lake Erie indicated widespread anthropogenic eutrophication (human activities resulting in more nutrients such as phosphorus in the water, leading in turn to decreased oxygen levels).

In the midst of a widespread decline in bees, particularly in the United States, a few bumblebees are finding a way to cope: shorter tongues.

«Mistiming as a result of climate change is probably a widespread phenomenon, and here we provide evidence that it can lead to population declines,» the researchers write in a paper presenting the findings in today's Nature.

Together with their colleagues from the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, scientists of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) were able to show that currently widespread insects are threatened with a serious decline in species diversity in the near future.

Scientists hoping to explain widespread declines in wild bumble bee populations have conducted the first long - term genetic study of Nosema bombi, a key fungal pathogen of honey bees and bumble bees.

While the new study is not a definitive explanation of the widespread bumble bee losses, which are likely the result of many factors, Cameron said, it challenges a popular hypothesis about the sudden declines of wild bumblebees in the early 1990s.

This decline had been attributed in part to the widespread introduction of systematic STI management and changes in sexual behavior, and partly because AIDS deaths broke up many sexual networks.

Widespread use of non-invasive prenatal screening has led to a decline in invasive testing, and since samples are more likely to be evaluated locally, rather than a central service, there is a wider range of options for cfDNA testing compared to other parts of the world.

The loss of milkweed plants due to extensive herbicide use and changes in farming practices, such as the widespread adoption of herbicide - resistant crops, has been identified as a major contributing factor of monarch's decline in the eastern U.S. Disease, climate change, widespread insecticide use, and loss or degradation of nectar - rich habitat may also be contributing to declines.

But as ED meds become more and more widespread, the stigma of ED has begun to decline and partner discussions have gotten easier.

A new study finds that despite declining rates of teen smoking and widespread bans on smoking in public places, 48 percent of middle - and high school students are exposed to secondhand smoke every year.

«According to the UK National Food Survey, average household consumption of tinned fruit declined during 1975 — 2000, suggesting tinned fruit consumption is less widespread than before», the researchers wrote.

Naturopathic medicine experienced a decline in the 1940's and 50's with increased popularity of pharmaceutical drugs and technological medicine, and a widespread belief that these therapies could eliminate all disease.

DHA deficiency may therefore be at the root of widespread declines in cognitive function, increases in mental disorders and epidemic levels of degenerative disease.

The new English Baccalaureate qualification (EBacc)-- which emphasises a range of «core» academic subjects — has caused widespread concern amongst the musical community, including fears this will lead to a decline in the creative arts and technology.

While Iowa lawmakers raised per - pupil funding for schools, widespread declines in enrollment mean that most of the Hawkeye State's school districts will receive few of those new dollars.

California Finds Economic Gloom Starting to Lift After nearly five years of brutal economic decline, government retrenchment and a widespread loss of confidence in its future, California is showing the first signs of a rebound.

The graph shows how widespread the declines have been this past year, no matter the quality ratio of the company.

Conservation Status Since the island scrub - jay occurs only on one island that makes it susceptible to any major disaster, a disease outbreak, or widespread land - use changes, any of which could potentially extirpate the species or cause a severe population decline.

LaToya Ruby Frazier (2012 Visual Arts) has been photographing her family and her hometown of Braddock, PA, since she was 16, bearing witness to Braddock's decline from a booming steel mill town to a «distressed» municipality with widespread pollution and increasingly scarce jobs.

They include soaring temperatures, declining late - season snowpack, northward - shifted winter storm tracks, increasing precipitation intensity, the worst drought since measurements began, steep declines in Colorado River reservoir storage, widespread vegetation mortality, and sharp increases in the frequency of large wildfires.

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

Given that 34 % of the world's conifer species today are vulnerable or threatened with extinction (Fi.3 in 49), implementation of the Montreal Protocol may have prevented widespread conifer decline and potentially extirpations.

«Mistiming as a result of climate change is probably a widespread phenomenon, and here we provide evidence that it can lead to population declines.»

Widespread decline in greenness of Amazonian vegetation due to the 2010 drought.