Sentence examples for population remnants from inspiring English sources

a Reduction of an abundant, widespread species (a metapopulation consisting of sources and sink populations, 1 5) to a few isolated remnants (6 8)—a situation likely to promote a bout of allopatric speciation (if the population remnants are not too small).

In the former, investigation has shown thinly distributed population remnants.

To separate these hypotheses, we would need to discover either closely related viruses in other species or populations or remnants of a more diverse viral population that existed before a selective sweep.

Another alternative is that southern fresh water populations are remnants from a northward expansion of northern haplotypes following Pleistocene glaciation.

Leiopelma pakeka occurs in a stable, natural population in remnant forest on Maud Island, and in two introduced populations, in another habitat on Maud Island and on Motuara Island [ 68, 69].

This practice may put native species at a disadvantage in restored areas (Fig. 1B), and gene flow from restored populations into remnant populations may reduce the overall genetic diversity of native species, as well as swamp any ongoing coevolution within remnant populations.

Third, current populations may be remnants of an ancient, more or less continuous population and intermediate, now extinct populations could have acted as stepping stones for gene flow.

Competition colonization models can address the population dynamics of remnants following habitat destruction.

Inside the arc of the Eastern Carpathians and also partly on the Transylvanian Plateau lives a compact island of Hungarian population and some remnants of German colonists dating from the Middle Ages.

Much of the favela population consists of remnants of Brazil's slave trade, creating tension between the nation's black, indigenous, and European populations.

Washington's current policy may lead to outright civil war between the majority Pashtun population and the remnants of the so-called Northern Alliance of Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek tribes.