The phrase "augmenting population" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the increase or growth of a population, such as in demographic studies or social sciences.
Example: "The city is facing challenges due to the augmenting population, which has led to increased demand for housing and services."
Alternatives: "growing population" or "increasing population".
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
In the North Cascades, wildlife officials agreed 13 years ago to conduct a formal environmental review to determine the best way to ensure recovery, including augmenting the population with bears from elsewhere.
Economic stability in any market depends on growth, something cities are acutely aware of when it comes to augmenting their population.
Most hatcheries are intended to ensure that the demand for salmon is met without decimating dwindling wild populations, but Dr. Rand says there are also hatcheries whose sole purpose is augmenting endangered populations, serving as captive breeding programs.
