mass mortality

collocation in English

meaningsofmassandmortality

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mass
adjective[before noun]
uk
/mæs/us
/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a ...
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mortality
noun[U]
uk
/mɔːˈtæl.ə.ti/us
/mɔːrˈtæl.ə.t̬i/
the way that people do not live ...
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(Definition ofmassandmortalityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The die-back was first encountered in 1964 andmassmortalitystarted in the late 1960s.
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Suddenmassmortalityamong dominant species in some stands showed that early secondary forest succession is not always a gradual and unidirectional process.
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Eagleton thinks that those relations were not inevitable; at the very least, more could have been done to avertmassmortality.
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The abundance of ostracodal wackestone-grainstone displaying a mixture of juvenile and adult articulated ostracod shells, as well as both articulated and disarticulated fish bones, attests to episodes ofmassmortality.
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When water was plentiful, the region could support a great deal of plant and animal life, but periodic droughts often resulted inmassmortality.
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These are parasitic protozoans that infect molluscs, at least some of which cause disease andmassmortality.
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Thesemassmortalityevents impacted sardine stocks over 5,000 kilometres of coastline.
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The disease is highly contagious and leads tomassmortalitywithin 2 to 4 days.
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Failure to find its numbers inmassmortalityleads to further conjecture that it was a solitary hunter.
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This was apparently the site of amassmortality, perhaps a failed attempt to cross a river during a flood.
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It was probably an anadromous fish, tolerant of hypersalinity and subjected to frequentmassmortality.
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It is thought that all of the recovered specimens had died in a single event ofmassmortalityand may have been buried on a fluvial strandline.
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It is believed that society subsequently became more violent as themassmortalityrate cheapened life and thus increased warfare, crime, popular revolt, waves of flagellants, and persecution.
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While lymphocystis does not causemassmortalityevents like megalocytiviruses and ranaviruses, fish with lymphocystis exhibit grossly visible papilloma-like skin lesions which substantially reduce their commercial value.
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