Sentence examples for low population numbers from inspiring English sources

In some species, the dormant form is a resistant cyst, whereas other species remain in the vegetative state but at very low population numbers.

"A combination of low population numbers and a species migrating between places where humans didn't bother them gave us the impression that gray whales have a stereotypical migratory and feeding behavior that may not be historically correct," Lindberg said.

Some species were added because they were important subsistence foods for the Aleuts, and others were added because they were ecological equivalents to replace species deleted because of low population numbers.

Low population numbers, recurrent El Niño Southern Oscillation-like (ENSO) conditions in the eastern Pacific Ocean, threats from oil spills, effects of pesticides on reproduction, extensive hybridization, and indifference among ornithologists to its fate render the Western Gull a species of conservation concern.

Country B with its low population density shows an increase in 'Almost' and 'Timely' VALs at low population numbers (>100) (Figure 8B).

He graduated from the Lahti Institute of Design in Finland with a degree in industrial design, and the autonomous transport device he came up with is perfectly suited to areas like Finland with relatively low population numbers.

Even the delayed nuclear power plant in Finland, when it's going to be operational in 2018, because of its massive size and Finland's sort of low population number, its per capita emission reductions will be faster than, for example, the rollout of wind power in Germany or German wind energy and solar energy rollout in the 2000s.

Few people were left in the community and the low population number made networks of mutual help difficult, resulting in reunidas becoming more frequent than mutirões.

In fact, our study presents some obvious limits such as the low population number, especially for the CG, in which we have had a high dropout rate, the brief follow-up period (6 months), and the lack of a direct comparison between our tailored intervention and a standard physiotherapy programme [ 49].

Under such conditions of unfamiliar grounds and low populations numbers, the results obtained by typing offspring for the MHC class II β chain suggested that matings had occurred to favour offspring that was heterozygous.

In contrast to the stable population sizes associated with allopatric speciation, a peripatric speciation event yields genetic variation consistent with bottlenecks and low founder population numbers [ 14].