Despite its small population, Reykjavik's musical output is prodigious.
Russians savour with fascinated horror China's prodigious demography: the 300m being added to China's population in the final two decades of this century are roughly double Russia's total population.Russians do well to worry about their grip on Siberia.
Instead, parasitoid mating systems have typically been studied by evolutionary ecologists in the context of how population structure influences sex allocation strategies, producing a prodigious body of work (Hamilton, 1967, 1979; Charnov, 1982; King, 1996; Godfray, 1994; most recently summarised by West, 2009).
A beekeeper and amateur naturalist of prodigious energy, John Tanton had spent two decades planting trees, cleaning creeks and suing developers, but population growth put ever more pressure on the land.
The event is notable for the comparative rarity of recorded historical eruptions in the region and of caldera systems in general, for the prodigious quantity of SO2 emitted into the atmosphere and the significant human impacts that ensued notwithstanding the low population density of the Afar region.
Prodigious activities beckoned.
In 1666 the population reached 3,215, and a decade later it was about 8,500; thereafter, however, the population grew largely by natural increase, though at a prodigious rate.
His philanthropy was prodigious.
The slaughter was prodigious.
Beard's output is prodigious.
