Sentence examples for augment populations from inspiring English sources

In 1981, the Seymour Hatchery was built just below the Seymour River dam and has been used to augment populations of steelhead for terminal recreational harvest opportunities [11] and other resident salmonids.

The conservation decision to augment populations should not be made without careful consideration of habitat availability and the potential for the introduction of maladapted genotypes.

Outbreeding depression, alternatively, appears much less common (Edmands 2007) but is an important consideration, particularly when deciding whether to augment populations (Templeton 1986; Thornhill 1993; Frankham et al. 2011).

Bighorn sheep in North America provide a useful model for examining this issue because they are highly susceptible to infectious diseases, and they are frequently translocated to re-establish or augment populations.

The partisan battle concerns whether the Census Bureau can use statistical sampling to augment population counts that will be used to redraw boundaries for Congressional districts.

Immediate steps are now required to ensure that these populations continue contributing to landscape function by augmenting populations, improving connectivity, and allowing disturbance events that will stimulate recruitment.

This effect may occur indirectly as a result of increased biomass of periphyton and augmented populations of aquatic snails, which are the trematode's primary larval host.

Retaining genetic diversity in restored or augmented populations is especially important for species where diversity has a direct link to fitness (e.g. self-incompatible species; Young and Pickup 2010) and to maintain evolutionary potential in the face of global environmental change (Willi et al. 2006).

Diversification of field edges is widely used as a strategy to augment pollinator populations and, in turn, supplement crop pollination needs.

A very limited number of these animals may be able to be utilised to augment other populations if the necessary state approval can be obtained, but the core of the wallaby conservation efforts and all remnant and wild translocated populations presently remain in Queensland.

We sampled bees in 30 forest openings created by group selection harvest as well as 30 sites in adjacent mature forest to examine the extent to which small forest openings support bees, to identify environmental variables influencing bee abundance and diversity, and to gauge their potential to augment bee populations in adjacent unmanaged forest.