Sentences with phrase «population size from»

Casual observers are unlikely to notice an obvious drop in monarch numbers this spring, in part because of the natural variability in population size from year to year.

Nest counts are the main source of demographic data for sea turtles, but it's hard to estimate population size from these counts.

Nest counts are the main source of demographic data for sea turtles, but it's hard to estimate population size from these counts.

«You see a rapid increase in population size from about 18,000 years ago, just as the climate began warming up after the last Ice Age,» says lead author Rebecca Dew.

Not exact matches

The forecasts derive from purely non-athletic data: population size, income per capita, climate, political structure.

The size of the private prison population grew 90 percent from 1999 — 2014, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

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«We lost some momentum toward the end of 2013 from disappointing job growth and limited inventory, but we ended with a year that was close to normal given the size of our population,» said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.

The geographic areas that CFs serve vary in size from entire states or regions of a state (e.g. Southeastern Texas) to major metropolitan cities like New York City to rural counties with populations less than 2,500.

Comparing the sizes of the believer population and the sizes of the atheist population, I pray that the atheist women cease and desist from abortions.

Kennedy: «I'm disappointed with the addition of the 63rd Senate seat, besides adding to the cost of government, it was put in a place that has no impact on western New York and quite frankly has no impact on the population shift in New York state and if there was going to be an additional seat added that despite the fact that I disagree with you that the Constitution was in fact violated and you say that it was not violated — the fact that this additional seat adding to the cost and size of government was added to a place in the Capital Region rather than a place where distinctly the population grew down in New York City I believe was based upon the fact that had an additional district been added in the city where the population shift had come from it would have included that seat being an additional minority seat and that is why it was put up in the Capital Region and rather than in the New York City area.

Rikers has come under scrutiny from federal law enforcement over the treatment of inmates as well as the size of the inmate population there.

The mayor's plan aims to reduce the city's inmate population to 5,000 detainees from its current size of about 9,400.

The size of the House of Commons remained at 658, there were still «pocket boroughs» and the electorate only increased from 478,000 to 813,000 out of a total population of 24 million.

The figures were calculated from a UK national figure of # 29 million a year and are based on the population size and child poverty rate within each local authority area.

Each jurisdiction requesting or requiring homeless assistance from the state will be asked to design a strategic plan we call the Continuum of Care, which assesses the size and needs of each sub group within the homeless population and identifies exactly what they need.

Tell me why we must have three senators from every state of the federation, isn't that just based on some defined federal character principle and not population size or merit?

From health care to clean water, Hockfield noted, «The way we are currently providing ourselves with all the necessities of life is insufficient to meet the challenges of that size population.»

TruePrime - mediated circulating tumor DNA amplification specifically selects the larger, more cancer - specific DNA fragment - size population from human plasma.

The invariance likely results from either a recent selective sweep, a recent origin for modern Homo sapiens, recurrent male population bottlenecks, or historically small effective male population sizes.

In 2012, research by FFI and partners led to the species being formally designated as critically endangered due to its small population size and threats from hunting and habitat loss.

Led by postdoctoral researcher Dr Violeta Simon - Porcar, they measured the plant's genome size and surveyed 30 populations of monkeyflowers from Shetland and across the United Kingdom.

Deaths from war have also been on a steady slide relative to the size of the population: War killed about 2 percent of people in the 17th century, but only 0.7 percent in the 20th century.

Indeed, if land managers in Africa were as well funded as Yellowstone National Park, at around $ 4,100 per square kilometer, they could afford to manage the average unfenced lion population at around two - thirds its potential size, a step up from the current status quo.

They extrapolated the overall size of the island's population from the number of orangutan nests observed throughout the species» range in Borneo.

If such populations are prevented from emigrating, the populations might again increase in size, but then some other limiting factor manifests itself.

To estimate changes in the size of the orangutan population over time, Voigt, along with Serge Wich from Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and their colleagues representing 38 international institutions, compiled field surveys conducted from 1999 to 2015.

Population movement within Greater Montreal (from suburbs to city centre, city centre to suburbs, and between suburbs) impacts local population size, but the age structure in the central city does not seem to be affected.

DNA samples taken from grizzly bear hair may help resolve a bitter dispute over the size of the bear population in and around Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Most estimates of historic whale population size have been extrapolated from old whaling figures, but this method is often very inaccurate, argues marine biologist Steve Palumbi of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in California, US.

This explains the decline in the hatchery population's average egg size from 0.27 grams in 1988 to 0.20 grams in 2001, they say.

The sterilizations are «not to control the coyote population size... it's purely to keep their DNA from being passed to a red wolf offspring,» says ecologist Eric Gese of Utah State University, Logan, a lead author of the new study and a member of the panel overseeing red wolf recovery efforts.

«We have often underestimated the pristine population size of marine species,» agrees oceanographer Craig Smith from the University of Hawaii in Manoa.

The problem is the strong momentum from past high birth rates, which would sustain population size even under Bradshaw and Brook's extreme scenarios.

As for how many people the planet can sustain, the first such estimate came from microbiologist Anton van Leeuwenhoek who calculated roughly 13.4 billion people back in 1679, based on the population density of his native Holland and its size relative to the rest of the globe.

Using only the DNA from sloughed - off cells floating in the ocean, scientists have been able to determine the population size and genetic properties of one of the world's largest and most mysterious animals: the whale shark.

If lots of plants from one species grow in the same place, fungi quickly cut their population down to size, levelling the playing field to give rarer species a fighting chance.

«Our study suggests that the cumulative survival from hatchling to maturity, which may take 30 years, combined with present - day climate effects on mature females, has a greater influence on annual nesting population size than does the exclusive impact of survival during the first year of life as hatchlings,» Saba said.

Dr John Beier, co-author of the research from the University of Miami, said: «The presence or absence of Prosopis juliflora in villages has a significant influence on the size of the mosquito population in general, on their species composition, on the sugar feeding status and, the age structure of female populations.

They tested multiple variables, analyzing how island size, distance from the mainland, maximum sea depth between the mainland and the islands, and latitude relate to body size in the treeshrew populations.

In order to determine treeshrew body size from populations on the Malay Peninsula and 13 offshore islands, the researchers measured 260 specimens collected over the past 122 years and housed in six natural history museums in Europe and North America.

Support comes from data on a range of organisms, which show an inverse relationship between mutation rate and ancient population size.

A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications provides the first direct estimates of the population size and annual survival of young birds in Oahu's Laysan Albatross population, giving important new insights into the demographics of these «prebreeders.»

Rather than searching for and counting each individual nest, researchers recorded how many oystercatchers they observed within suitable nesting habitat and then modeled the size of the breeding population from this data.

The size of the study and the use of nationwide registry data of unselected populations from Denmark and Sweden allowed adequately powered analyses that are likely generalizable,» the authors write.

Estimates of the population size at its nadir range from 30,000 to 200,000.

«We do not have at the present time an analysis to tell us what would be an appropriate size of the population of chimpanzees that would need to be kept on hand should the need arise from some sort of new pandemic for their use,» said Collins.

The paper reviews population sizes and trends over time, if known, for each group, ranging from millions of ringed seals to fewer than a hundred beluga whales in Northern Canada's Ungava Bay.

«The assumption from past research has been that cities of all sizes will eventually decline in density, with greater amounts of urban expansion than population growth.