Sentence examples for a closed population from inspiring English sources

In other words, only addition by births and reduction by deaths can change a closed population.

"There's no genetic exchange, and it's essentially a closed population," Ms. Danner said.

Paul Krugman As you say, the V.A. is a closed population, which is what makes it work.

The deme usually is not a closed population but contributes individuals to neighbouring populations and receives immigrants from them.

The assumption of a closed population often is weakened when the number of successive samplings is large.

Counterintuitive though it may seem, said Dr. Moore, delayed childbearing and small families are known to help maintain genetic variability in a closed population.

The island is considered a closed population, but both animals have been known to come and go, swimming across Lake Superior or crossing on the ice in winter.

In a closed population, as in zoos, the priority is high levels of genetic diversity to maintain a species' adaptability and prevent inbreeding.

Using a removal sampling design, we studied the performance of a Bayesian approach to estimate both sampling rates and abundance under the assumption of a closed population.

Here we investigate the genetic structure of a closed population of ∼300 endangered mountain gorillas living in multiple groups in a small (331 km2) forest in southwestern Uganda.

We fitted each model to catch data generated from five behavioral models that mimicked a range of animal behaviors in a closed population.