Sentence examples for sea populations from inspiring English sources

Government scientists estimate that there are roughly 3,500 bears in the two groups, known the Chukchi Sea and the Southern Beaufort Sea populations.

The affiliation of Pacific and Red Sea populations, apparent in cytochrome b and S7 (but equivocal in RAG2) raises the hypothesis that the Indian Ocean was recolonized from the Red Sea, possibly more than once.

The Russian Atlantic and Laptev Sea populations are classified as Category 2 (decreasing) and Category 3 (rare) in the Russian Red Book.

pond, lake, river and sea populations) to see whether the evidence for reduced autosomal genetic diversity in freshwater populations [13] also holds in the case of mtDNA.

For example, harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) were found to consist of a single continuous population displaying isolation by distance throughout the North Atlantic, with genetically distinct Iberian and Black Sea populations only [62].

Thereafter, two models have been proposed to explain subsequent migrations involved in shaping todays SEA populations.

However, recent genetic data suggest depth may be an important isolating mechanism for deep-sea populations on seamounts within a region [7], including for some deep-sea corals [8], [9].

Despite its potential importance for shaping biogeographical patterns, the distribution and connectivity of deep-sea populations across the ACC remain poorly understood.

Consequently, more research is needed on these deep-sea frontiers in order to assess faunal diversity and endemism, and to understand the origin, distribution and maintenance of deep-sea populations in the Southern Ocean.

Limited gene flow was found especially between the freshwater Yangtze River porpoise and the oceanic Yellow Sea and South China Sea populations, which strongly suggested that some barriers might have restricted their genetic exchange.

The western Aleutian and Norton Sound crabs appear to be isolated from southeastern Bering Sea populations, despite ocean currents that would be expected to promote gene flow between populations (Fig. 2a).