Sentences with phrase «stable population around»
But the most diverse and numerically stable population around is in fact the entire population.
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In the summer of 2015, Cox showed me several hives that bore the standard signs: healthy brood; good stores of pollen and nectar, or «bee food,» and little else; a few straggling workers, maybe 10 percent of the population he had last week; and a big queen, running around her now - empty castle like a mom, knowing that without her stable of workers she'll be unable to feed her babies.
The population continued to be stable at around 4,025 through 1998, and then declined with surveys in 2005 estimating 929 elephants.
Limited evidence shows that populations around the world have positive attitudes toward science and support public funding for scientific research, and these attitudes have been generally stable over time, the committee found.
The sophisticated cultivation methods developed by the Aztecs produced enough of their 4 stable crops, chia, corn, beans and amaranth, to feed a population of around 11 million people.
Between 1984 and 2004, the percentage of the student population speaking English as a second language increased from 5 percent to 60 percent; the percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch soared to 91 percent; and the once - stable neighborhood around the school turned into a community with a 60 percent mobility rate for families with school - age children.
Stable isotope results show only very slight differences between ancient and modern whales, indicating the hypothesis of population substructure in the past around the area of the Olympic peninsula / Vancouver Island remains a possibility and warrants further investigation using larger sample sizes.
Although poaching increased after the collapse of the Soviet Union, continued conservation and antipoaching efforts by many partners — including WWF — have helped keep the population stable at around 540 individuals.
As I note in Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, some 43 countries around the world now have populations that are either essentially stable or declining slowly.