Sentences with phrase «population numbers»

We are coming through the greatest surge of human population numbers in history.

That is an approximately 40 % increase in absolute global human population numbers in the next 42 years.

Based on the correspondent's last paragraph, it seems likely there is an ideological basis involved for challenging the consensus on population numbers.

This concern with population numbers, while useful and important from a policy perspective, is difficult to reconcile with the decisions and circumstances of each particular birth.

With total population numbers only in the tens of thousands, a die - off of the world's second largest mammal is significant.

Which with our current population numbers, isn't exactly a bad idea.

And then, of course, there are the risks inherent in estimating population numbers and characteristics based on a small sample size.

Managers and fisheries are hampered by a lack of information, from overall population numbers to data on how fast fish grow and reproduce.

The largest jump in population numbers from 5 to 10 billion in well under a century is still ahead of us.

After all, common sense — and science — tells us that such policies (assuming they could be enforced, of course) would only drive population numbers upward.

The good news is, by becoming more efficient, shelters can lower average population numbers while providing good care.

Humans tend not to be bitten unless flea population numbers are high.

You provide no specific population numbers to aim for, and no time frames.

And yellow shows regions whose polar bear population numbers have been guessed.

We don't know how much population numbers vary.

Some residents aren't necessarily included in the official population numbers.

According to their research, the dynamics of human population numbers are essentially similar to, not different from, the population dynamics of other species.

This information can be used to estimate population numbers.

Greenleaf, who has been tracking school population numbers for years, has determined that you need 60 kindergarten seats for every 100 births in the Community Board 1 area (roughly the area south of Canal St).

McAllen's population numbers around 135,000, and its population density is the second highest among our featured cities, at 2,776 residents per square mile.

In a forthcoming post, I will provide my own thoughts on the necessity for reducing the unsustainable increase in absolute global human population numbers as well as on the need for recognizing «OCPF» as the most powerful means of re-establishing the family of humanity as a sustainable species within the biophysical framework of our wondrous, finite planetary home.

It just is not in the best financial interests of ORE's salaried bureaucrats to develop a one - third only number of the current population numbers of Realtors; the income would just not be there for them (bureaucrats) unless the dues were to be increased exponentially per existing Realtor.

The Grevy's Zebra Trust, which works to protect the species, states, «This significant decrease in individuals is equal to an 80 % decline in population numbers over just three decades.

Compounding the problem is sharks have a long gestation period and don't have many offspring — which means that it's hard for them to recover when population numbers decline.

Working with evolutionary geneticist Mark Thomas at UCL, Shennan developed a statistical method to trace the rise and fall of population numbers by using calibrated radiocarbon dates at archaeological sites in Europe.

«The goal is really to understand more about Weddell seal habitat and population numbers [which is] an impractical thing to do from ground.»

These threats are particularly pertinent to humpback whales in the Arabian Sea, a genetically isolated population numbering fewer than 100 animals and currently listed on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species as «Endangered.»

In 2007, the US submitted a «field report» to the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee asserting the Gray whale population numbered approximately 18,000.

For modern humans whose population numbers are dependent on maintaining efficient agriculture, it is the decade - long transition that is so catastrophic (given a slow temperature transition over a 500 year period, we could probably cope).

The main factor behind encouraging sterilization today is the accumulation of data regarding how it affects the health and behavior of dogs and cats, as well as an increased effort to control population numbers.

That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster population numbers in the primarily rural districts.

Anheuser - Busch birthed the global beer industry and Purina the worldwide pet food market; Energizer batteries and the largest car rental company, Enterprise, launched in St. Louis; and say what you want about GMO crops pending your politics, but St. Louis - based Monsanto has ensured for a generation of food production while global farmland dissipates and worldwide population numbers soar.

To the upbeat sort of dubstep - like music, from the beautiful graphics of all the ships and the tracks you travelled on, all the way down to the minute details of the game, like giving population numbers and race percentages for each galaxy.

«It is difficult to predict what population numbers will be in the future, especially for animals that live in vast and remote regions,» Regehr said.

Captive breeding, public awareness and habitat restoration are improving the status of the island fox, but we still have a long way to go to reach healthy stable population numbers.

All you can do is muddy the water — probably by implying that slavery or Jim Crow or higher rates of disease or hunger were precisely correlated with lower population numbers.

TNR sounds counter-intuitive as a way to control cat population numbers, so getting the authorities on board rests on your ability to make them understand its merits from a health and safety perspective.»

The technique may help scientists better track population numbers of these penguins, which are threatened by warmer sea temperatures.

Then, they compared their findings to real - life population numbers using U.S. Census data.

Voices for Vermont's Children, a non-profit research and advocacy organization, has analyzed the data used in the report and says that in most cases, where actual population numbers have been below 5,000, estimates do not meet reliability standards and therefore some data has not been included.

«These shocking figures are so high because many of these deaths occur in Asia, where population numbers are high and where air pollution has increased markedly in recent years,» says Frank Kelly of King's College London.

For experts to continue to widely share and consensually - validate the thinking that understanding the dynamics of human population numbers does not matter, that the human population problem is not about numbers, or that human population dynamics have so dizzying an array of variables as not to be suitable for scientific investigation, seems not quite right.