Sentence examples for augmented populations from inspiring English sources

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).

Potential deleterious (and advantageous) allelic variation carried over to augmented populations from 'source' populations could shape adaptive evolutionary trajectories.

Furthermore, the resultant combination of incompatible cytotypes could result in the failure of reintroduced plants to reproduce and may bring reproductive instability to augmented populations (Young and Murray 2000; Ennos et al. 2005; Severns and Liston 2008).

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.

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.

This model was then augmented by population density, to adjust for between city differences in green space that could be explained by residential structure.