Because the majority of diversity and biomass on Earth is microbial, and thus difficult to measure, recorded extinction events affect the easily observed, biologically complex component of the biosphere rather than the total diversity and abundance of life.

Because of its abundance, granite was commonly used to build foundations for homes in New England.

Because technetium is radioactive, with half life much less than the age of the star, its abundance must reflect its recent creation within that star.

Because of the abundance of powerful streams, many of the major westward rivers off the Cascades have been dammed to provide hydroelectric power.

Because Harran had an abundance of goods that passed through its region, it became a target for raids.

Because of the abundance of trees, the city grew quickly and was incorporated in 1889.

Because of their abundance, seamounts are one of the most common oceanic ecosystems in the world.

Because of their feeding habits, cruising desire, collective behavior and fragility they survive in very few aquaria worldwide despite their abundance in the ocean.

" Because Union Township was familiarly known as West Chester, plus the abundance of other townships in Ohio called Union, the name was changed to West Chester Township effective June 28, 2000, after being ratified by the township's voters at the March 9 primary election.

Because of their strong affinity for oxygen, most lithophile elements are enriched in the Earth's crust relative to their abundance in the solar system.

Because of a lack of stone and an abundance of clay, Babylonian constructions were of baked brick, using lime or pitch for mortar.

Because 60 is the sum of its unitary divisors ( excluding itself ), it is a unitary perfect number, and it is also an excessive number with an abundance of 48.

Because of their abundance, they form a major component of commercial and artisanal shark fisheries in many countries.

Because of this conversion to ilmenite, armalcolite has a relatively low abundance and is associated with ilmenite and rutile.

Because the berries are found in abundance there and look a lot like raspberries, one of the islands in the Kodiak archipelago is named Raspberry Island ( Alaska ).

Because of the abundance of food in the region, most settlements were permanent.

Because of its oceanic climate, tropical and sub-tropical fruits are in abundance.

Because transformation usually produces a mixture of relatively few transformed cells and an abundance of non-transformed cells, a method is necessary to select for the cells that have acquired the plasmid.

Because of this, species abundance in coral reef fish communities was estimated to be greatest at approximately 20 % coral cover.

Because of the abundance of the sought strings, single-string searching algorithms are impractical.

Because of the rugged landscape, many characteristics of primeval forest have been preserved, such as an abundance of dead trees.

Because of their abundance, whitetail naiads are in turn an important food source for various fish, frogs, and birds, and also for other aquatic insects.

Because of the abundance of exposed coalified logs and upright trunks, early explorers and paleobotanists referred to the Derevyannye Hills as either the " Wood Mountains ", " Wood Hills ", or " Tree Mountain ".

Because the word Al-Kawthar comes from the word Kathrah ( abundance ) and it ( Al-Kawthar ) linguistically means an abundance of goodness.

Because of the difficulty of diving and the unpredictable nature of natural pearl growth in pearl oysters, pearls of the time were extremely rare and of varying quality.

Because of the light loss due to all the filtering, Autochrome plates required much longer exposures than black-and-white plates and films, which meant that a tripod or other stand had to be used and that it was not practical to photograph moving subjects.

Because the filtering in a SID chip is applied after the waveform generators, samples produced this way can be filtered normally.

Because it costs money to filter out noise, there is always a balance struck between regulatory compliance and perfect filtering in these devices.

Because the drink had a limited shelf life, Faygo was only sold within Michigan, until the late 1950s, when the company hired chemists who found that ingredients in the water limited the life of the finished soda, and designed a filtering system that purified the water, allowing the pop's shelf life to be expanded.

Because they are so efficient at filtering water, they tend to accumulate pollutants and toxins.

Because the IR-laser component in the beams of these visible lasers is difficult to filter out, and also because filtering it contributes extra heat which is difficult to dissipate in a small pocket " laser pointer " package, it is often left as a beam component in cheaper high-power pointers.

First, “ Because public libraries ' use of Internet filtering software does not violate their patrons ' First Amendment rights, CIPA does not induce libraries to violate the Constitution, and is a valid exercise of Congress ' spending power .” The argument goes that, because of the immense amount of information available online and how quickly it changes, libraries cannot separate items individually to exclude, and blocking entire websites can often lead to an exclusion of valuable information.

Because each person's pinnae are unique, and because the filtering they impose on sound directionality is learned by each person from early childhood, the use of pinnae during recording that are not the same as the ultimate listener may lead to perceptual confusion.

Because of this common asymmetry it is important when implementing uRPF to be aware of the potential for asymmetry to exist to prevent accidental filtering of legitimate traffic.

Because of this, home studios have particular issues with acoustics, including comb filtering and low-frequency resonance.

Because of this many beaches and pools prohibit diving in shallow waters or when a lifeguard is not on duty.

Because the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates above their confluence are heavily silt-laden, irrigation and fairly frequent flooding deposit large quantities of silty loam in much of the delta area.

Because of the ships ' negligible draft, the Vikings could sail in shallow waters, allowing them to invade far inland along rivers.

Because of the supply-lines ( 1, 000 miles into Vandal waters ) and the huge drain of the imperial treasury.

Because Galway imposed taxes on the ships that traded their goods there, the O ' Flahertys, led by Ní Mháille, decided to extract a similar tax from ships traveling in waters off their lands.

Because of this bloom-and-bust cycle, diatoms are believed to play a disproportionately important role in the export of carbon from oceanic surface waters ( see also the biological pump ).

Because of their popularity, trout are often raised on fish farms and planted into heavily fished waters, in an effort to mask the effects of overfishing.

Because it is exposed to the generally westerly winds and waves of the Pacific, seas and weather in Juan de Fuca Strait are, on average, rougher than in the more protected waters inland, thereby resulting in a number of small-craft advisories.

Because the Russians desired to slip undetected into Vladivostok, as they approached Japanese waters they steered outside regular shipping channels to reduce the chance of detection.

Because of their thin tests, they would certainly not have survived in the wave-battered coastal waters inhabited by many modern echinoids.

Because of the shallow waters, the development of aquatic life in the Sea of Azov is more characteristic of a lagoon, and the plankton patterns are rather similar in the open sea and near the shores.

Because of the natural hazards of the strait, where the waters of Green Bay meet the open body of Lake Michigan, they gave it the French appellation Porte des Morts Passage, which in English means the " Door to the Way to Death ," or simply, " Death's Door.

Because of their development from Atlantic seagoing vessels, the great ships were more weatherly than galleys and better suited to open waters.

Because of the great number of rocks and shoals just above or below the water's surface, it is unwise to travel the waters at night, unless one stays in the main channels and has charts, a chart plotter, or knows the area well.

Because of living in ephemeral waters, the eggs of most killifish can survive periods of partial dehydration.

Because of the recent flooding that is affecting Bangkok and the rest of Thailand, the airport has closed as flood waters flowed on to the runways and affected the lighting.

Because of its importance as a wildlife sanctuary, access to Saltholm and its surrounding waters is strictly controlled.

Because sunfish must consume a large volume of prey, their presence in a given area may be used as an indicator of nutrient-rich waters where endangered species may be found.

Because of the treacherous waters, pilotage is an essential service for shipping.

Because of its additional skin-planking ( called kotsa ) and Arctic design of the body and the rudder, it could sail without being damaged in the waters full of ice blocks and ice floes.

Because of incorrect reports about the presence of Japanese torpedo boats, submarines and minefields in the North Sea, and the general nervousness of the Russian sailors, 48 harmless fishing vessels were attacked by the Russians, thousands of miles away from enemy waters.

Because of its great size but shallow waters, San Pablo Bay frequently has difficult boating conditions.

Because this river flows through a large agricultural area, its waters collect silt and fertilizer runoff.

Because of its height above the emerald-green Gulf waters, length of continuous travel, location in a warm-weather state, and modern architectural design, it is a popular spot for filming automobile commercials.