Sentences with phrase «processes affecting population»

«From the scientific perspective, this study suggests that ecosystem and species - level migration processes affecting population dynamics in marine environments such as the Gulf of Mexico may be operating at a larger scale than typically appreciated or examined,» Jue said.

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For example, population processes associated with colonization, periods of geographic isolation, socially reinforced endogamy, and natural selection all have affected allele frequencies in certain populations (Jorde et al. 2000b; Bamshad and Wooding 2003).

«We know that population ageing is pervasive, in fact it's a global phenomenon affecting everyone - but countries are at various stages of the process, and the pace of change differs greatly.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

Seed predation is an important ecological process that can affect the reproductive success of individual plants, the dynamics of plant populations, and the evolution of defensive dispersal mechanisms and plant morphological traits.

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

A disruption of this process leads to maladaptive generalized fear in PTSD, which affects 7 percent of the U.S. population.

In addition to working memory, future research in clinical populations should focus on processing speed and episodic memory, cognitive functions that are also affected in MS.

DOT is committed to engaging minority and low - income populations in the transportation decision - making process across all relevant OAs, from the earliest stages of planning through project implementation, including maintenance and operation, to ensure that affected communities are able to influence decision outcomes.

These processes completely altered the creek's alignment, flow, and connection to the floodplain — and affected its ability to support the southernmost continually - returning natural population of the endangered coho salmon in western United States.

Executed through processes that affect a wide spectrum of the population, the works on view are accessible to both the intellectually and visually curious alike.

His specific research interests include: processes that cause population abundances to fluctuate over time; predicting the extinction risk of rare species; patterns of individual growth in fluctuating environments and how they affect population growth rates; and the effects of current - driven dispersal on marine fish species.

However, there are no compelling data to suggest a confluence of climate - change impacts that would affect global production in either direction, particularly because relevant fish population processes take place at regional or smaller scales for which general circulation models (GCMs) are insufficiently reliable.

It's also a «homogenizing» process that tries to account for the many variables that affect temperature over time — like when a population boom in a formerly rural area leads to an «urban heat island.»

The amendments of the 1993 Native Title Act have affected the reconciliation process between the State party and the indigenous populations who view these amendments as regressive.