The loss of carnivorous species near the top of the food chain will upset the delicate ecosystem balance and may cause dramatic increases in opportunistic species.

The reality is more complex: the atmosphere near the surface is largely opaque to thermal radiation ( with important exceptions for " window " bands ), and most heat loss from the surface is by sensible heat and latent heat transport.

The radiation environment near Io in particular was very unhealthy for Galileos systems, and so these flybys were saved for the extended mission when loss of the spacecraft would be more acceptable.

But this gain was not without its loss, as Sempronius avoided Hannibal's watchfulness, slipped around his flank, and joined his colleague in his camp near the Trebia River near Placentia.

* 1815 – The East Indiaman ship Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.

In most cases, visual functions return to near normal within eight to ten weeks, but they may also advance to a complete and permanent state of visual loss.

* 1939 – World War II: The submarine is mistakenly sunk by the submarine near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.

He was given several opportunities to score near the goal line, but New England stopped him every time before he reached the end zone ( such as his 2-yard loss from the New England 3-yard line a few plays before Butler's second field goal, and his 2-yard run from the 4-yard line right before McMahon's first rushing touchdown ).

One possibility is that the chemical peculiarity may be the result of diffusion or mass loss, although stellar models show that this would normally only occur near the end of a star's hydrogen-burning lifespan.

At high frequencies, current travels near the surface of the wire because of the skin effect, resulting in increased power loss in the wire.

* November 30 – The Dunbar wrecked near the entrance to Sydney Harbour, Australia, with the loss of 121 lives.

* May 30, 1815 – The Arniston, an East Indiaman repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board.

* May 30 – The Arniston, an East Indiaman repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board.

In telecommunication, a propagation path obstruction is a man-made or natural physical feature that lies near enough to a radio path to cause a measurable effect on path loss, exclusive of reflection effects.

In 2003 twelve Carabinieri were killed in a suicide bombing on their base in Nasiriyah, near Basra in southern Iraq, in the largest Italian military loss of life in a single action since the Second World War.

Reservoir temperatures in the volcanic fill decline from near the Inyo Craters to near Crowley Lake due to a combination of heat loss and mixing with cold water.

Count Pecci wanted his children near him after the loss of his wife, and so they stayed with him in Rome, attending the Jesuit Collegium Romanum.

This amplification makes humans most sensitive to frequencies in this range-and also explains why they are particularly prone to acoustical injury and hearing loss near this frequency.

*, a Hamburg Süd liner sunk with great loss of life near the end of the Second World War

This resulted in the loss of a speck of pigment near the left elbow, which was later painted over.

* Planting or building windbreaks to slow winds near buildings, which prevents heat loss.

After the loss in Charleston, the defeats of General Isaac Huger at Moncks Corner and Lieutenant Colonel Abraham Buford at the Waxhaw massacre ( near the North Carolina border, in what is now Lancaster County ), Marion organized a small unit, which at first consisted of between 20 and 70 men and was the only force then opposing the British Army in the state.

The TV series emphasizes the boisterous nature of the team, led by manager Billy Martin, catcher Thurman Munson and outfielder Reggie Jackson, as well as the malaise of the Bronx and New York City in general during that time, such as the blackout, the city's serious financial woes and near bankruptcy, the arson for insurance payments, and the election of Ed Koch as mayor.

At the foundation of the new rule, they were called Hermits of St Damiano, or Moronites ( or Murronites ), and did not assume the appellation of Celestines until after the election of their founder to the Papacy as Celestine V. The fame of the holy life and the austerities practised by the hermit in his solitude on the Mountain of Majella, near Sulmona, attracted many visitors, several of whom were moved to remain and share his mode of life.

As the 1824 election drew near people began looking for candidates.

As the 1864 Presidential election drew near, the Confederacy's prospects for victory were ebbing and the tide of war increasingly favored the North.

By the time the writs were dropped for the 1943 federal election, the Coalition had sunk into near paralysis.

An article in The Observer suggested that her position near the top of the list indicated that the party's leadership saw her as a valuable asset in the election with regard to solidifying support among the party's grassroots and the poor.

However, what ultimately turned the tide in favor of validity of Gregory's election was the near universal acclaim of the Roman people.

In the general election of 1950, his constituency was altered and he was narrowly elected for the new seat of Huyton near Liverpool.

After the election results became known in August, his departure to Texas was delayed by a court appearance in the last week of October as co-executor of his deceased father-in-law ’ s estate, and he finally left his home near Rutherford in West Tennessee on Nov. 1, 1835, with three other men to explore Texas.

Roby eventually wins the county seat election over Fisher, but it is later discovered that one of the voters, a Mr. Bill Purp, is actually a dog whose owner lives near Roby.

The county gained its present boundaries in 1930 after an election approved moving a portion of Owyhee County near Glenns Ferry and King Hill to neighboring Elmore County.

In the election, some voters chose a site near the center of the county, but a larger number voted for several different named sites ( which may have been different names for the settlement known as " Skinned Chestnut " or " Skin ( t ) Chestnut "— the early name of Douglasville ).

The first election was held in the fall of 1859, in an old log saloon near Lockhart ’ s ferry, at which time Wm.

Politics in Edison since the 2005 mayoral election have been polarized by an attempt by retail giant Walmart to open a store in central Edison near the junction of Interstate 287 and New Jersey Route 27.

The Llano River location was chosen in an election held on June 14, 1856, under a live oak on the south bank of the river, near the present site of Roy Inks Bridge in Llano.

Although Fox had wanted to be buried near his home in Chertsey, his funeral took place in Westminster Abbey on 10 October 1806, the anniversary of his initial election for Westminster in 1780.

In the 2007 election, the Liberals won 48 seats, forming a minority government in a near three-way split of votes and seats.

The armies remained unengaged for over a month, causing political consternation in the North as the 1864 election drew near.

In response to declining polls numbers, the Pan-Blue coalition quickly organized a program of major rallies near the end of the election.

The election was called by the new Progressive Conservative Party leader, Prime Minister Kim Campbell, near the end of her party's five-year mandate.

In addition to the Democrats complete control and manipulation of the election machinery, as each biennial election drew near in Arkansas, some new version of the evils of Reconstruction was brought forth to distract the attention of the voters from the misdeeds of the Democratic Party ring and to make it possible for them to avoid giving an account of their stewardship.

The Fourth Protocol was published in 1984 and involves renegade elements within the Soviet Union attempting to plant a nuclear bomb near an American airbase in the UK, intending to influence the upcoming British elections and lead to the election of an anti-NATO, anti-American, anti-nuclear, pro-soviet Labour government.

He identifies that the General Secretary is responsible, and blackmails Krilov into revealing the plan ; in contravention of the Fourth Protocol to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty a small atomic device is to be smuggled ( via its component parts ) into England, and be exploded near Bentwaters Air Force Base a week before the general election.