With their often complex reproductive needs and permeable skins, amphibians are often ecological indicators and in recent decades there has been a dramatic decline in amphibian populations of many species around the globe.

With the beginning of the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, and as a result of the expansionist policies of Czarist Russia in the Caucasus, many Muslim nations and groups in that region, mainly Circassians, Tatars, Azeris, Lezgis, Chechens, and several Turkic groups left their ancestral homelands and settled in Anatolia.

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With the decline of heavy manufacturing, Dayton's businesses have diversified into a service economy that includes insurance and legal sectors as well as healthcare and government sectors.

With the decline of sophisticated styles at the end of the baroque period, the fugue's central role waned, eventually giving way as sonata form and the symphony orchestra rose to a dominant position.

With the decline of the Chalukya empire, their feudatories, the Hoysalas of Halebidu, Kakatiyas of Warangal, Seuna Yadavas of Devagiri, and a southern branch of the Kalachuri, divided the vast Chalukya empire amongst themselves around the middle of 12th century.

With the decline of large herbivores by the late ice age, Pachycrocuta was replaced by the smaller Crocuta.

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.

With the rapid Arctic sea ice decline in the Hudson Strait, their range now extends deep into the northwest Atlantic.

With the era of rap metal on the decline, Kid Rock included several southern rock and country ballads on the album.

With the rise of the Roman Empire and the decline of the Seleucids, the area was conquered by the Roman Empire in 63 BC.

With the decline of Portuguese power, especially during the period when the crown of Portugal was combined with the crown of Spain ( 1580 – 1640 ), the Portuguese coastal settlements were ignored and fell into a ruinous condition.

With the decline of Nri kingdom in the 1400-1600 AD, several states once under their influence, became powerful economic oracular oligarchies and large commercial states that dominated Igboland.

With the loss of the theater chain, Paramount Pictures went into a decline, cutting studio-backed production, releasing its contract players, and making production deals with independents.

With the very sharp decline in world trade after 1929, its condition became critical.

With the gradual decline of the use of these local Slavic tongues, the term Wends slowly disappeared, too.

With the increase popularity of the MP3 players, it was the CD ( compact disc ) player that originally caused the decline of the Walkman.

With this new connotation, opéra comique had dominated the French operatic stage since the decline of tragédie lyrique.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, distinctions appeared also in organization, since the bishops in the West were not dependent on the Emperor in Constantinople and did not come under the influence of the Caesaropapism in the Eastern Church.

With the rising popularity of television news, the business of UPI began to decline as the circulation of afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fall.

With the decline of the Holy Roman emperors ' power starting in the 13th century, the Low Countries were largely left to their own devices.

With the decline of the Ottoman Empire after 1700, signs of revival started to emerge.

With the increased use of personal computers and the relative decline in societal awareness of heavy machinery, the term user interface is generally assumed to mean the graphical user interface, while industrial control panel and machinery control design discussions more commonly refer to human-machine interfaces.

With Mao's health on the decline, it was clear that Jiang Qing had political ambitions of her own.

With 1935's Case of the Lost Sheep, an even more major makeover took place: the character was drawn more realistically now, with white fur rather than black, shoes are removed, plus wearing suspenders instead of a shirt and shorts.

With Happy Scouts ( 1938 ), the second-to-last Oswald film produced, the rabbit's fur went from being all-white to a combination of white and gray.

With the growth of fur trading to the north after European encounter in the coastal areas, the nations of the Haudenosaunee ( or Iroquois Confederacy ), based in present-day New York, moved into the Ohio Valley in search of new hunting grounds.

With the decline of the fur trade, the American Fur Company sold the fort to the US Army in 1865, which named it for Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri.

With the decline in the fur trade, in 1832 Fontenelle sold the post to the US government to be used for the Missouri River Indian Agency ( also called the Bellevue Agency ).

With the decline of the fur trade, Bellevue changed during the decade of the 1850s to a more mixed economy.

With Frontenac's support, he received not only a fur trade concession, with permission to establish frontier forts, but also a title of nobility.

With the ability to take extra prosthetics such as layers of fur or skin " to resemble a digitigrade leg, from canine and feline to fantastical demons, dragons, satyrs and even robots ", these devices are promoted as being easy to get used to, partly because they " allow for realistic and natural movement as they are jointed at the knee and the ankle.

With a colony in place, the Métis trappers ' supplying the North West's fur traders, the Nor ' Westers, would be displaced, cutting them off from areas further west.

With the silk trade and quick collapse of the North American beaver-based fur trade in the later 1830s – 1840s, many of the mountain men settled into jobs as Army Scouts, wagon train guides and settlers through the lands which they had helped open up.

With indirect connections by marriage to John Jacob Astor and that family's lucrative fur business interests, Daniel Cady, adept at managing these connections and his own business interests, joined the ranks of the wealthiest landowners in New York.

With larger prey, small bones are consumed, but organs and intestines are avoided along with fur, feathers, beaks, feet or hooves.

With the first permanent European settlements in the early seventeenth century, all these nation-peoples developed an extensive fur trade with French, Dutch, and English merchants in the St. Lawrence, Hudson and Mohawk Valleys, and Hudson's Bay, respectively.

With the arrival of the Europeans, both Great Britain and France claimed the area and both sent fur traders into the area to do business with the Ohio Country Indians.

With the booming economy came the expansion of the original fur trading posts into thriving communities ( such as Victoria, Nanaimo, and Kamloops ).

With small prey, also the fur, feathers, flesh and bones are consumed, but only some flesh is eaten from large prey.

With their victory in the war, the British took over the fort and maintained it for the fur trade.

With protection in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the current beaver population has rebounded to an estimated 10 to 15 million ; however this is still a fraction of the originally estimated 100 to 200 million North American beaver before the days of the fur trade.

With the onset of age and the decline in the fur trade Pierre Parrant began seeking new endeavors to earn a living.

Madonna appeared on stage, in a halter D & G t-shirt that read " Mother " on the front and " F * cker " on the back and a fur coat, singing a mash-up of Stardust's " Music Sounds Better With You " and " Holiday ".

With family capital, St. Vrain became established as a fur trader near Taos, New Mexico.

With the decline of the fur trade in the late 1840s and much of the prized beaver long since made scarce by over-trapping, few white explorers entered the forest over the next few decades.

With the fur trade in decline and increasing harassment from American settlers, tax collectors, and revenue agents, Fort Nisqually closed in 1869 and the United States paid the HBC $ 460, 000 for its land.

With this, he is also wearing a large fur coat and hat.