"population spike" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a sudden large increase in population. For example, "The village had a sudden population spike when a new factory opened nearby."
Spike sorting is a technologically expensive component of the signal processing chain required to interpret population spike activity acquired in a neuromotor prosthesis.
The education system is coming under particular pressure from this population spike.
(b) Current intensity for population spike threshold plotted against distance (μm) from the hippocampal dorsal pole.
Population spike occurrence was detected as a change of the field slope from monophasic to biphasic shape.
I don't see that it's sensible to regard the risk of a population spike as a reason not to give people the best healthcare that we can.
Because California's legal regime for managing water is not structured to handle that population spike or climate change, the report contends that changes are vital.
Population spike (PS) amplitudes also transiently declined by ~ 10% (p < 0.005; n = 9) when comparing the 24-hour group to sham group.
Comparison of effect on field excitatory postsynaptic potentials and population spike responses indicated that the barbiturates act at selective and pathway-specific sites.
But the population spike has also brought the problems of the city to these areas, most notably petty crime.
At the same time, the successfully retrieved target object can be decoded from population spike patterns in adjacent entorhinal cortex (EC).
Top: example of field events induced by increasing stimuli in one slice with an arrow showing the population spike at threshold.
