wild population
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwildandpopulation
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wild
adjective
uk/waɪld/us/waɪld/
uncontrolled, violent, ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofwildandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The initial purpose of developing the techniques was to enhance thewildpopulationthat was being depleted by commercial fishing.
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Since mid-2003, poaching had intensified and reduced thewildpopulationto only 5 to 10 animals (7 as of 2007).
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Thewildpopulationwas estimated at 1,300 in 2005.
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We expected thewildpopulationsize to be positively correlated with exposure because crowding may lead to more contacts and more infection.
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Significant differences were apparent between onewildpopulationand its garden-grown descendants.
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However, each year, wild pupae (50% of the total pupae colony population) are added to maintain the biological similarity of the colony with that of thewildpopulation.
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Ideally, the transgenic strain would have greater fitness than thewildpopulationit was intended to replace, but this is rarely, if ever, naturally the case.
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In the current study, we report high levels of congenital transmission in awildpopulationof mice with 75 % of female mice transmitting parasites to foetuses prior to birth.
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When the startingwildpopulationis more than one female (fig. 2b) the probability of extinction goes to 1 as the flooding ratio approaches 10:1.
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Nothing can be done to cure wild fish of the disease or to prevent it running its course in thewildpopulation.
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As with many serious fish diseases, whirling disease develops largely under farmed conditions but the extent to which it is present in thewildpopulationis not known.
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Seeds can be removed from mature plants without damage and can be cultivated by the horticultural trade to produce many individuals, so relieving the pressure on thewildpopulation.
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However, so long as fishing consists of preying on awildpopulation, so long will sensible conservation be vital in ensuring a continuance of the industry.
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This was the first evidence of a livewildpopulationof the deer for more than ten years.
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According to locals thewildpopulationof the blue-throated macaw in the 1980s was thought to number 500-1000 individuals.
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A survey conducted in 1992 found the number ofwildpopulationof golden lion tamarins to be 562 individuals in 109 groups.
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In the 1970s and 1980s the refuge served as the focus of an effort to establish a secondwildpopulationof endangered whooping cranes.
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However, with conservation thewildpopulationhas grown to about 3,000 trees in present times.
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