The phrase "a decrease of population" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in the number of people living in a specific area or country.
Example: "The recent studies indicate a significant decrease of population in rural areas due to urban migration."
Alternatives: "a decline in population" or "a reduction in population".
In great conurbations, a growing transiting population and a decrease of historical population require more social control and a daily routine made of homologated common spaces with shops, streets, squares and standardized food.
However, a significant increase of cell population in G2/M phase, accompanied by a decrease of cell population in the G1 and S phases, was observed when RSC96 Schwann cells were treated with ZnO hierarchical architectures at a dose of 8 μg/mL for 12 h (Table 1).
This results in overcrowding, followed by a decrease of the population and eventual extinction.
Nocodazole treatment resulted in a decrease of cell population positive for all four markers Nanog, Oct4, SSEA-3, SSEA-4.
S. l. cerasiforme suffered a decrease of its population effective size during domestication from S. pimpinellifolium (Bai and Lindhout 2007).
To test whether the neurogenesis defect is associated with a decrease of NPC population in DS neurospheres, we analyzed the number of NESTIN and SOX2 double positive cells in dissociated neurospheres derived from Twin-N-iPSCs and Twin-DS-iPSCs.
After an initial 1-day lag, EcO157 populations declined rapidly with a decrease of 90% populations within 0.5 day for both inoculum levels, and also after the second re-inoculation to samples treated with the higher inoculum of EcO157 (Figure 1).
Consensus exists that both HIV [ 43, 44] and HTLV [ 24, 25, 45] separately induce functional modifications on T cells populations, characterized among others by a decrease of naïve populations and higher levels of cell activation when compared with uninfected individuals.
Walsh et al. [2] reported a decrease of ape populations in western Equatorial Africa by more than a half between 1983 and 2000.
