risk of extinction

collocation in English

meaningsofriskandextinction

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risk
noun
uk
/rɪsk/us
/rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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extinction
noun[U]
uk
/ɪkˈstɪŋk.ʃən/us
/ɪkˈstɪŋk.ʃən/
a situation in which something no ...
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(Definition ofriskandextinctionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Full-sib mating also results in a substantial decrease in fitness (inbreeding depression), and thus a highriskofextinctionof the population.
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The cost of fishing licences should be increased in order to restrict the capture of species that are atriskofextinction.
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However, the process of purging also results in an increasedriskofextinctionand loss of genetic variation.
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For each selection scheme with any family size, line crossing decreases theriskofextinctionwith little change in the effectiveness of purging.
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Farm populations are at highriskofextinctiondue to pest management programmes and fallowing of sites.
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One possible way to purge the mutational load gradually without a highriskofextinctionis to change the rate of inbreeding during the whole purging period.
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Compared with no crossing, line crossing could lower theriskofextinctionand the inbreeding coefficient of the purged population substantially with little loss of the effectiveness of purging.
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The result is of significance in practical purging programmes which aim to purge inbreeding depression, improve fitness performance without muchriskofextinctionand loss of genetic variation.
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It is essential that the species now in danger, some of them at seriousriskofextinction, survive.
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We must be ambitious and demand the protection of all species that are atriskofextinction.
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The small, but well-established, bottle-nosed dolphin population, closer inshore, is atriskofextinctionwithin the next two years.
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Scientists tell us that we have already gone beyond the acceptable limits of sustainable fishing of this species, which is clearly atriskofextinction.
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We can see that many species are atriskofextinctiondue to deforestation and illegal logging.
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At present, one in five species is atriskofextinction.
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More than 11,000 species are atriskofextinction.
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The so-called simplified environmental protection strategy, which has previously been used, only tries to take into account the needs of those species most atriskofextinction.
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