The phrase "a robust population" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a group of individuals or organisms that are healthy, thriving, or well-established.
Example: "The conservation efforts have led to a robust population of endangered species in the region."
Alternatives: "a strong population" or "a healthy population."
Regardless of the molecular mechanism (e.g. protein stability) responsible for robustness in virus φ6, it is expected that a robust population should harbor more genetic diversity than its brittle counterpart.
"In areas where you have a robust population, you also find better and more diverse species of plankton," he said.
"I would strongly suspect that we are going to have a robust population of mosquitoes this spring," he said.
Still, there are plenty of unwary, sick or old animals to provide food for a robust population of red-tailed hawks.
Connersville used to be known as Little Detroit, with a bustling Ford factory, a robust population and a thriving local industry.
The 18 whales were netted in forays in 2006, 2010 and 2011 in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Siberian coast from a robust population of 4,000 that plies those waters and is not viewed as endangered.
The somewhat counterintuitive observation of accumulating genetic diversity of WNV in the face of adaptation ([ 22]; Figure 1) can be explained in two ways; (i) A mutationally robust population has formed around a high fitness master sequence, or (ii) populations of variants of lower fitness values are maintained in the population via complementary interactions with more highly adapted variants.
The recent suggestion that HIV is evolving towards a more robust population due to the selection of a lower fitness landscape is compatible with such a scenario [26], [50].
For instance, a high winter mortality rate among fragile individuals leaves a more "robust" population to face the heat exposure, and therefore mortality in the following summer is likely less than expected.
The attorney general has charged that Mr. Friedman's adult day care operation collected millions in Medicaid payments by pretending to offer medical services to frail clients when it was providing little more than borscht and Russian-language television to a relatively robust population.
A locally robust population of F. tularensis subsp. tularensis A.I. may have been relatively isolated until European colonists dispersed this pathogen throughout the continent.
