Sentence examples for disturbed populations from inspiring English sources

Secondly, disturbed populations usually lack an understorey, and so cannot support a resident population of honeyeaters; instead, they rely upon sporadic visits for pollination.

Secondly, disturbed populations usually lack an understorey, and so cannot support a resident population of honeyeaters; instead, they rely upon occasional visitors for pollination.

After about 1920 when the fashion passed, their numbers returned in the 1930s, but over the next 50 years actions by the C&SF further disturbed populations.

Our results also demonstrate a causal relationship between corticosterone concentrations and individual reproductive behaviors, and point to a mechanism for why naturally disturbed populations, which experience multiple stressors, could be more susceptible and unable to respond adaptively to changing environmental conditions.

Ecologist Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, studies elephants in Namibia and says that "it would be great to get this kind of data from other disturbed populations to see if the pattern is consistent or just a local phenomenon that could have other explanations".

Firstly, the higher density of disturbed populations leads to greater rates of mating between neighbouring plants, resulting in more genetic structure and thus more effective selfing.

Heavy construction could further disturb these populations, which are already under threat from the oil slick.

The formation of nanotips into clusters larger than the beam diameter (see Figure 3) suggests that the ionization of nitrogen has an expanded area of effect, which can be accounted for by the constant flow of nitrogen disturbing the population of ions and moving them away from the ablation zone.

Because ovariectomy is known to disturb lymphocyte population homeostasis in the bone marrow we also analyzed the hematopoietic cell distribution in the bone marrow and spleen of KΔ75 mice after ovariectomy.

Since we are interested in the fitness consequences of frequency dependent selection, we choose the mutation rate small enough such that a population disturbed by a mutation reaches the new equilibrium before the next mutation arises.

Animal populations are likely to vary in terms of how intensely parts of the population are disturbed by anthropogenic agents, e.g.[ 19, 20], so that generalized conclusions on whole populations or species may be inapropriate if derived from a biased sample.