Sentences with phrase «such fragmented populations»

Since genetic diversity is the «raw material» species use to evolve, conservationists often worry that such fragmented populations will lose their ability to adapt to new challenges.

Not exact matches

The authors examine the concept and importance of maintaining connectivity (ability of wildlife populations to move among landscapes between habitat «islands» such as mountain tops, forest fragments and isolated wetlands) and corridor ecology.

The analysis also revealed that the populations of generated tRNA fragments and attributes such as fragment abundance, fragment length, and the fragments» starting and ending points depend on a person's race, population, and gender.

Such small, isolated populations are essentially doomed: even if the forest fragments survive, sooner or later dwindling gene pools or disasters such as forest fires and disease outbreaks will wipe them Such small, isolated populations are essentially doomed: even if the forest fragments survive, sooner or later dwindling gene pools or disasters such as forest fires and disease outbreaks will wipe them such as forest fires and disease outbreaks will wipe them out.

However, the populations of snubfin and humpback dolphins are so small and fragmented that any anthropogenic mortality is likely to lead to population declines, even though the power to detect such declines in a management timeframe is weak.