Monoculture has sharply reduced habitat for many species.

Monoculture is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop or plant species over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years.

Monoculture tree plantations of both native and non-native species can be found along the trail as well.

Monoculture needs very high populations of bees at bloom, but can make the area quite barren, or even toxic when the bloom is done.

Monoculture of F. indicus can yield a net profit of up to Rs. 8000 ( approx.

Monoculture plantings provide great yields and more efficient harvesting than natural stands of trees.

Monoculture is an example of such a nondiverse production system.

Monoculture, a method of growing only one crop at a time in a given field, is a very widespread practice, but there are questions about its sustainability, especially if the same crop is grown every year.

Monoculture habitats are not favored by sharp-tailed grouse, as they prefer sites with high heterogeneity.

With the decline of grasslands 12, 500 years ago, Europe experienced a massive loss of lowland habitats favoured by spotted hyenas, and a corresponding increase in mixed woodlands.

These hankos can be carved out in a matter of seconds using machinery and were partly responsible for massive African elephant decline in the 1980s when the African elephant population went from 1. 3 million to around 600, 000 in ten years.

Koo argues that it was massive fiscal stimulus ( borrowing and spending by the government ) that offset this decline and enabled Japan to maintain its level of GDP.

Frequent slave-raiding missions by the Spanish Empire in the early 16th century led to a massive decline in the Amerindian population of Barbados so that by 1541 a Spanish writer could claim they were uninhabited.

Idi Amin's six-year rule produced economic decline, social disintegration, and massive human rights violations.

The empire's decline was shown in 450, where the emperor attempted to destroy the Northern Wei himself, and launched a massive invasion.

After this period of huge international success, the theatre's decline became clear and plans were made for massive renovations.

Subsequent surveys carried out a decade later using fairly intensive camera trapping did not record any gaur any more, indicating a massive decline of the population.

The Irish and Western Scottish populations went through a massive decline around 4000 years ago which ultimately led to the extinction of the Irish population between 2, 000 and 1, 000 years ago.

Further, restructuring and privatisation of the State Electricity Commission in the 1990s led to massive job losses in the region, which accelerated the decline of Morwell's central business district.

By 1929, there were about 18, 000 members left in the ZOA, a massive decline from the high of 200, 000 reached during the Brandeis years.

Nevertheless, the demographer John C Caldwell has suggested that the reason for the rapid decline in fertility in some developing countries compared to Western Europe, the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is mainly due to government programs and a massive investment in education both by governments and parents.

The Scottish population became extinct, but has been reintroduced from the Swedish population ; in Germany it is on the " Red list " as a species threatened by extinction, and is no longer found in the lower mountainous areas of Bavaria ; in the Bavarian Forest, the Black Forest and the Harz mountains numbers of surviving Western Capercaillie decline even under massive efforts to breed them in captivity and release them into the wild ; and in Switzerland, in the Swiss Alps and in the Jura.

The RSPB have shown that this massive decline is mainly due to changes in farming practices and only partly due to pesticides.

Following a massive decline in orders for tracked combat vehicles between 1983 and 1994 FMC and the Harsco Corporation agreed in January 1994 to combine their defense businesses to form United Defense.

Poor fiscal management, combined with organizational difficulties resulting from rapid growth, led to a massive decline in membership.

The 2002 SARS in China demonstrated at once the decline of the PRC epidemic reporting system, the deadly consequences of secrecy on health matters and, on the positive side, the ability of the Chinese central government to command a massive mobilization of resources once its attention is focused on one particular issue.

The Indus Valley Civilization went into decline around the year 1700 BC for reasons that are not entirely known, though its downfall was probably precipitated by a massive earthquake that dried up the Ghaggar River.

climate change " deniers " ( May / June 2005 ) that was nominated for a National Magazine Award for Public Interest reporting ; a package on the rapid decline in the health of the ocean ( March / April 2006 ), and the magazine's massive Iraq War Timeline interactive database.

The massive decline in sea-ice which the Medieval Warm Period produced would have had a devastating impact upon their way of life.

Though he measured the decline of social capital with data of many varieties, his most striking point was that many traditional civic, social and fraternal organizations — typified by bowling leagues — had undergone a massive decline in membership while the number of people bowling had increased dramatically.

He long contended the decline of public housing projects resulted from massive concentrations of the nation's poorest of poor.

Surveys by the Environment Agency show that the Gowy's eel population has held up well despite a Europe-wide massive decline in numbers.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

So many Cubans were reported being swept into the Castro dragnet that the massive Sports Palace auditorium and at least one hotel were converted into makeshift jails.

The patterns seen today indicate that beetles went through a massive adaptive radiation early in their evolutionary history, with many of the resulting lineages flourishing through hundreds of millions of years to the present.

He is given credit for many massive public works programs administered by his powerful Parks Commissioner Robert Moses and employed thousands of voters.

In AD 1300, a massive earthquake loosened many of the outer casing stones, which were then carted away by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan in 1356 to build mosques and fortresses in nearby Cairo.

Gabbro is an essential part of the oceanic crust, and can be found in many ophiolite complexes as parts of zones III and IV ( sheeted dyke zone to massive gabbro zone ).

The Mongols resulted in massive destruction of many cities, including Bamiyan, Herat, and Balkh, and the despoliation of fertile agricultural areas.

The prevailing opinion of many scholars outside the Soviet Union is that Stalin intended to use the resulting doctors ' trial to launch a massive party purge.

In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent ( 26 of 40 ) of experiment participants administered the experiment's final massive 450-volt shock, though many were very uncomfortable doing so ; at some point, every participant paused and questioned the experiment ; some said they would refund the money they were paid for participating in the experiment.

There being no doubt, and the exact hour and minute of " Boil Away " being confirmed daily, the world's leaders decide to commit themselves to a massive building program for the creation of as many spaceships as possible, more or less suitable for rescuing a small percentage of Earth's population.

In contrast, the more massive globular clusters of stars exert a stronger gravitational attraction on their members, and can survive for many billions of years.

His energetic campaign attracted massive media attention and mobilized many young people, who saw Trudeau as a symbol of generational change ( even though he was 48 years old ).

The police claimed his death was the result of an extended hunger strike, but an autopsy revealed multiple bruises and abrasions and that he ultimately succumbed to a brain hemorrhage from the massive injuries to the head, which many saw as strong evidence that he had been brutally clubbed by his captors.

The frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes ' Leviathan ( book ) | Leviathan, depicting the Sovereign as a massive body wielding a sword and crozier and composed of many individual people.

However, with SDI they attained a special prominence due to the system cost, scenario of a massive sophisticated attack, strategic consequences of a less-than-perfect defense, outer spacebasing of many proposed weapons systems, and political debate.

The elections were widely denounced and many accused Zanu-PF of massive and often violent intimidation, using food to buy votes, and large discrepancies in the tallying of votes.

Decolonization in the 1960s triggered large refugee movements in Africa, creating a massive challenge that would transform UNHCR ; unlike the refugee crises in Europe, there were no durable solutions in Africa and many refugees who fled one country only found instability in their new country of asylum.

This combination of properties gives WIMPs many of the properties of neutrinos, except for being far more massive and therefore slower.

* April 14 – The U. S. government seizes the Irvine, CA Lincoln Savings and Loan Association ; Charles Keating ( for whom the Keating Five were named – John McCain among them ) eventually goes to jail, as part of the massive 1980s Savings and Loan Crisis which costs U. S. taxpayers nearly $ 200 billion in bailouts, and many people their life savings.

The growth of many suburbs and satellite settlements around the city proper, following the Italian economic miracle of 1950s – 60s and massive commuting flows, suggest that socioeconomic linkages have expanded well beyond the boundaries of its administrative limits and its agglomeration, creating a region of approximately 9. 3 million people.

Bucharest's population experienced two phases of rapid growth, the first beginning in the late 19th century when the city was consolidated as the national capital and lasting until the Second World War, and the second during the Ceauşescu years ( 1965 – 1989 ), when a massive urbanization campaign was launched and many people migrated from rural areas to the capital.

Ultramagic can produce massive balloons, such as the N-500 that accommodates up to 27 persons in the basket, and has also produced many balloons with special shapes, as well as cold air inflatables.

A massive outbreak of smallpox among western tribes led many of them to stay away from trading in 1758.

* c. 6000 BC: Between 12, 000 BC and 5000 BC it appears that massive inland flooding was taking place in several regions of the world, making for subsequent sea level rises which could be relatively abrupt for many worldwide.