Sediment and silt degrade the habitat.

Trampling by the animals degrades the habitat and spreads introduced species of plants.

Shrinking and degrading their habitat has brought them into conflict with farmers.

These have degraded the habitat.

The scatter would otherwise degrade the image by reducing the contrast and resolution.

These transforms involve interpolation, as in image scaling, which degrades the image quality, in particular blurring high-frequency detail.

This coating corrects for the difference in geometric phase between the two paths so both have effectively the same phase shift and no interference degrades the image.

That not only adds to the cost, but those parts would tend to degrade quickly when exposed to the contaminants and microbes in saltwater.

Synaptic potentials, unlike action potentials, degrade quickly as they move away from the synapse.

This very activity causes the material in the contacts to degrade quickly, resulting in device failure.

Produced without chemicals, it degrades quickly in soil.

At the time, only vegetable oil was available, which degraded quickly compared to modern lubricants.

Although aqueous solutions of cyanide degrade rapidly in sunlight, the less-toxic products, such as cyanates and thiocyanates, may persist for some years.

Organophosphate pesticides degrade rapidly by hydrolysis on exposure to sunlight, air, and soil, although small amounts can be detected in food and drinking water.

It must be stored carefully or all the good stuff degrades rapidly.

If the canister had remained sealed, the nerve agent, which degrades rapidly when exposed to moisture, would have retained its potency.

Even though the protocol performs well in static and low-mobility environments, the performance degrades rapidly with increasing mobility.

Heavy use was starting to degrade the environment and visitors got injured and lost crossing the lava fields.

The lack of economic opportunities for local people also constrains them to degrade the environment as a means of sustenance.

Chemical, industrial and thermal pollution, especially as a byproduct of the burgeoning steel industry after the 1890s, continued to degrade the environment.

While the action of an individual may not strongly affect the environment, the mass effect of a large number of hikers can degrade the environment.

A further study has demonstrated that litter has the potential to degrade an environment such that the tranquillity rating drops on average by one scale point.

Page faults, by their very nature, degrade the performance of a program or operating system and in the degenerate case can cause thrashing.

Whenever one party tries to unilaterally influence the overlay and degrades the performance for the others, this change will not be accepted.

An irreversible process degrades the performance of a thermodynamic system, designed to do work or produce cooling, and results in entropy production.

This means that moving, scaling, rotating, filling etc. doesn't degrade the quality of a drawing.

Over time, such intensive farming threatens to degrade the quality of topsoil and damage local waterways and ecosystems.

The continued growth of industry and cities throughout the 20th century, combined with little effort towards preserving the environment, continued to degrade the quality of the water in the river.

Densification degrades the quality of existing urban space and places greater burdens on an already creaking infrastructure.

This means that, as greenhouse gases would no longer be considered to degrade the quality of air, sources would not be required to ascertain a permit to emit.