Sentence examples for tendency of population from inspiring English sources

They generally held that the scarcity of productive land and the tendency of population to increase faster than the means of subsistence imposed limits on distributive justice.

The tendency of population to grow faster than the food supply, keeping most people at the edge of starvation, was described by Thomas Malthus in a 1798 book, "An Essay on the Principle of Population".

Generated by a natural tendency of population growth in relation to unsustainable land use, city sprawl has led to complex spatial developments that are creating both benefits to, and challenges for decision makers.

Significance levels *  P < 0.05, **  P < 0.01, and ***  P < 0.001 Factorial correspondence analysis of microsatellite data showed a tendency of population separation with some individuals overlapping (Fig.  3).

Figure 1 would display the changing tendency of population covered by the health insurance from the year of 2004 to 2010.

Canonical variate analysis (CVA) of 17 landmarks showed a stronger tendency of population separation because of a better linear discrimination of groups (Fig.  5).

In this single diagram was summarized the image of gradual change from common ancestral points, the depiction of the frequent extinction of most lineages, the general tendency of populations to diverge and fragment under the pressure of population increase, and a way of envisioning the relations of taxonomic affinity to time.

This model describes the tendency of populations that are geographically closer to be more similar than populations that are further apart [ 10].

The tendency of populations to be pulled towards phenotypes with low variance in fitness has been noted by many authors [ 5, 6, 8, 9, 32- 34].

It also generalizes the known tendency of populations to be pulled towards phenotypes with minimum variance in fitness, and shows that this is matched by a tendency to be pulled towards phenotypes with maximum positive asymmetry in fitness.

However, due to the widespread evidence of recent population decline of A. cervicornis and the tendency of effective population size estimates to reflect the long-term average (harmonic mean) population size [54], our effective population size estimate may not significantly underestimate the true census size of genetically distinct colonies of this species in the Florida Keys.