Sentence examples for connecting populations from inspiring English sources

The results, they say, "clearly suggest a role for corridors in connecting populations of both plants and insects".

Research results reveal that larval sea urchins in the plankton can reproduce asexually, change their larval morphology to enhance feeding, recover from months of starvation and disperse over the long distances, connecting populations of benthic adults.

Rivers flow across every continent and on all but the smallest islands, carving, eroding, and reshaping the Earth's topography; connecting populations; enabling access to natural resources, commerce, and trade; defining boundaries; and offering sustenance and energy.

If ornamentation is developmentally plastic, then ornament divergence among populations might still limit reproduction among adults from different populations, but genetic isolation would only occur if larval dispersal connecting populations was disrupted in some way.

Similarly, corridors connecting populations that have developed some resistance to invasive species or emerging diseases to naïve ones may prove beneficial as the invader or disease spreads (see Carroll 2011).

Observational and genetic evidence has confirmed the long distance dispersal capacity of water-dispersed mangrove seeds, but less is known about the relative importance of pollen vs. seed gene flow in connecting populations.

The present results show that intrinsic linkages embody important demographic relationships, connecting population composition, transfer rates, and the stable populations implied by those rates.

We contribute to the literature by offering the first test of an important link in the suspected causal chain connecting population stressors to the secondary sex ratio.

For instance, Viboud et al. (2006b) demonstrated that human mobility patterns in the United States synchronize epidemics among highly connected populations and that the virus tends to spread from populous to less populous locations.

Thus, the network model consists of randomly connected populations; the neurons do not exhibit a lateral connectivity profile.

"Using oil and natural gas to build cities, connect populations and achieve a goal at the heart of the efforts of men and women.