This achievement is all the greater because it is relatively simple for small populations to improve their standard of living quickly; it is easier to move something small than it is to move something big.
There are laws in place to encourage the development and marketing of medicines for rare diseases, the accommodations justified by the commercial hurdles associated with producing treatments for small populations.
Moreover, Ord explicitly specifies that his work is "a good model for small populations," not necessarily applicable to larger societies.
In other words, the risk of extinction due to demography for small populations is high.
For small populations, however, superlinear scaling can be firmly ruled out.
For small populations, even if it is increasing in size on the average, a chance fluctuation can result in extinction.
For large population the difference between these two quantities, in relative terms, typically is minor although for small populations the relative difference may be substantial.
Previous reproductive assessments of fragmented A. dealbata populations indicated significant constraints for small populations through low reproductive output mediated by fertilisation success.
For small populations, we show how the topology of the underlying social interaction network influences the emergence and location of leaders in the adaptive system.
Determining species distributions accurately is crucial to developing conservation and management strategies for imperiled species, but a challenging task for small populations.
In particular, we find that the probability of survival for small populations can be increased by a reduction in the size of the habitat and show that there exists an optimal size reduction.
