Sentence examples for capacity of populations from inspiring English sources
"So when a predator targets that reproductive age class and especially the larger more fecund animals in those populations, we are dialling back the reproductive capacity of populations". However, much of the standard conservation management today is based on the notion that it is the "tiddlers" that should be let go, to ensure robust numbers for the next generation.
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.
Moreover, weaker population coupling could be beneficial, as weaker correlations can enhance the information capacity of population coding24,25,26.
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.
Iron deficiency anaemia, the most common nutritional disorder in the world, impairs immunity and reduces the physical and mental capacities of populations.
Nonetheless, there is wide recognition that resilience potentially provides a valuable framework for policy and practice on the basis of its focus on developing the capacities of populations and anticipating 'shocks' to systems.
