In this study, two complementary nucleic acid based methods were used to identify and assess relative changes or differences in the abundance of potentially important populations in complex anaerobic microbial communities that mineralized chlorinated aromatic compounds.
Stuart Housden, who heads the RSPB in Scotland, explains: "The reason we focus on illegal killing of hen harriers on driven grouse moors is simply that it is by far the most important population impact in England and Scotland".
The main goal for American forces, then, would be to protect the 10 most important population centers in Afghanistan and keep the Taliban isolated long enough to train Afghan security forces to take over the fight.
What is more, the degree of religiousness was subjectively measured with only one question and therefore we did not explore this important population characteristic in depth.
If the same applies to wild tigers parasites can potentially be an important population regulating factor in tigers.
Haematopoietic progenitors represent a small but important population of cells found in the blood circulation.
"It's the most important refugee population in the world," Michel Gabaudan, the president of Refugees International, told me.
The Norwegian spring spawning (NSS) herring is an ecologically and economically important fish population in the Norwegian Sea.
