The phrase "associated territory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a region or area that is connected or linked to a particular entity, often in a political or administrative context.
Example: "The treaty outlined the rights and responsibilities of the associated territory in relation to the mainland."
Alternatives: "affiliated region" or "connected area".
This issue may be especially pertinent for nations and associated territories with large EEZ-to-land area ratios, where existing sediment carbon stocks could have a large impact on inventories.
By 1960, or not very long afterwards, the Ministry for Overseas (or Associated?) Territories could be a fairly small office, dealing with the remaining colonies and those smaller ex-colonies that, for reasons of defence and economy, wanted Britain to continue to represent them abroad.
Although behaviours associated with territory maintenance are extensively studied, little is known about the establishment of territorial boundaries, a key process influencing individual fitness and population demography.
Nest success was lowest in grazed remnants and annual productivity was positively associated with territory size in the fragmented landscape.
However, floating males do not incur the costs associated with territory intrusions (e.g. weight loss; Low 2005b) and brood provisioning (up to 32% of feeding visits are by the paired male; Ewen and Armstrong 2000).
However, aggressive behaviors are energetically expensive, and there is likely an intermediate optimum level of aggression in natural populations from a balance between the energy and risk associated with territory defense and the need to find food and mates.
Scandinavian-held territories included the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland, the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde, the Isle of Man and associated mainland territories including Caithness and Sutherland.
At E6, no Alu+ cells were found in the mesenchyme expressing Runx2 (Fig. 3C), which is associated with territories undergoing endochondral ossification.
We learn this morning that the Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index of business activity unexpectedly declined, and fell back into territory associated with economic contraction.
Here, too, Mercedes seems keen to keep its distance from the pure sport-sedan territory associated with BMW, playing to its own strengths rather than to its perceived weaknesses.
