Sentence examples for capacity of population from inspiring English sources

(a/b) denotes the carrying capacity of population in the patch 1.

Our synthesis extends the concept of carrying capacity of population models to explicitly include exhaustion of limiting resources, and so allows for population biology models to be considered as ecologically closed systems with respect to a key limiting nutrient.

Thus, in the visible future, human activity may push environmental conditions to new extremes, and the capacity of populations to respond to these changes remains largely unknown.

Whether warming oceans will shift the distributions of tropical marine species polewards depends strongly on the metabolic capacity of populations to keep pace with increased oxygen demand [9], [34].

These results provide good examples of the importance of pre-existent and newly generated diversity in the adaptive capacity of populations, and illustrate how the relative amount of each of them determines whether a population needs to increase or reduce the mutation rate to get rapid adaptation.

Anthropogenic disturbances, in general, cause stress and reduce resilience and adaptive capacity of populations and species.

However, local adaptation could also provide evidence of the capacity of populations to adapt to new conditions.

Much of conservation biology seeks to understand and enhance the capacity of populations to accommodate chronic disturbance.

Modest losses of allelic diversity may also negatively impact long-term population viability by reducing the capacity of populations to adapt to altered environments.

Nonetheless, long term drought conditions can prevent breeding over the course of decades, exceeding both the lifespan of the organism and the capacity of populations to recover.

Population size is thought to be associated with risk factors that impact the capacity of populations to persist in a changing environment (Willi et al. 2006; Frankham et al. 2014).