total abundance

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalandabundance

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total
adjective
uk
/ˈtəʊ.təl/
us
/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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abundance
noun[S or U]
uk
/əˈbʌn.dəns/
us
/əˈbʌn.dəns/
the situation in which there is more than enough ...
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(Definition oftotalandabundancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftotal abundance

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The study examined the size,totalabundanceand number per taxon of parasites.
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Species are listed in order of decreasingtotalabundancewithin each habitat.
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Numbers represent raw abundances (data taken only from studies that presented raw abundances), and numbers in parentheses are percentages of thetotalabundance.
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The proportions of the two populations may either remain constant, or change relative to one another, astotalabundanceincreases.
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Thus, we test the goodness-offit on relative abundance data (percentage oftotalabundance) in our study.
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While thetotalabundancedeclined weakly down the rainfall gradient, the highest rainfall site had anomolously few mammals.
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Totalabundancewas low: over 90% of fish harboured up to 20 worms, and over 99% of fish, less than 45 worms.
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Thetotalabundanceof endemic species in the four habitat types (276 individuals) was somewhat lower than that of the non-endemic species (349 individuals).
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Proportional availability of microhabitat was determined by dividing the f requency of abundance of a given substrate by thetotalabundanceof all substrates that were sampled.
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Because of the similar sizes of the monogenean species found in this study, they were pooled for the analyses of variation intotalabundanceacross host populations.
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The most striking feature of reptile patterning was the low species richness (but nottotalabundance) on clay soils, a pattern determined largely by variation for skinks and agamids.
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It is the ratio of the abundance of free electrons to thetotalabundanceof hydrogen (both neutral and ionized).
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