The phrase "a former population" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group of people that previously existed in a particular area or context but no longer does.
Example: "The archaeological site revealed artifacts from a former population that inhabited the region thousands of years ago."
Alternatives: "an earlier population" or "a past population".
When Anne Applebaum, an American journalist (and a former writer for this newspaper), went to Kaliningrad in 1991 she could find only three pre-war Germans still recorded officially as living there, out of a former population of more than 1m.The collapse of the Soviet Union has left Kaliningrad an "exclave" of Russia, separated from the rest of the country by Lithuania and Belarus.
On Padar, a former population of the Komodo dragon became extinct, of which the last individuals were seen in 1975.
Here, we document the recovery of a species from former population refuges.
In the former population, a decrease in complex I respiration was also reported together with an increased production of superoxide and a decrease in cardiolipin.
"The West Indies team represented the most disenfranchised rising to the top: a former slave population coming back to face their colonial masters, or an immigrant population getting one up on their English hosts," Mr. Riley said.
Pollinator visitation rate was significantly higher in LP than in PN (Fig. 3A, Table 5), thus suggesting a greater insect availability in the former population.
It was not until 1961 that the population of Somerton had risen above its former population in 1851, over a century ago.
This raises the intriguing possibility that it is a relict of a former divergent population of bananaquits on Cuba, which would have been a likely source of colonization from the GA to QR.
At present, the former population is considered to be a better candidate for breast CSC [ 83].
The observation that there was a significantly greater effect among NYC African Americans than among Krakow Caucasians when the analysis was restricted to a lower common range of exposure suggests increased susceptibility of the former population.
Correcting for possible detectable distances shows that dispersal in an archipelago population is lower than in a coastal population, possibly due to harsher habitat between the patches in the former population.
