natural mortality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaturalandmortality
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natural
adjective
uk/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done ...
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mortality
noun[U]
uk/mɔːˈtæl.ə.ti/us/mɔːrˈtæl.ə.t̬i/
the way that people do not live ...
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(Definition ofnaturalandmortalityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These dormant stages could be subject tonaturalmortalitybut were free of insecticidal effects.
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Prognosis depended on whether the treatment was given, the response to treatment, and thenaturalmortalityof each group, based on age repartition.
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A working model can be based on the expectation of decreasingnaturalmortalityrates with successive, increasingly robust, life stages.
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Factors affecting thenaturalmortalityof the coffee leafminer were studied in two periods in 2001/2002 and in three parts of the canopy.
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Out of the 64 control replicates, we computed mean values for thenaturalmortalityof the 2 prey classes.
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The highest risk ofnaturalmortalitywas for respiratory disease.
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This means that our model largely failed to include the locally aggregated pattern ofnaturalmortality.
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More speculatively, the delays in growth seen during this study might expose vulnerable stages to natural enemies for longer and so increasenaturalmortality.
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Secondly, an essential quantitative element in transmission is amplification to offset the considerablenaturalmortalityof ticks.
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The high risk ofnaturalmortalityamong patients with schizophrenia did not significantly change during the era of psychiatric bed reductions.
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Some plants were lost through burning, trail-clearing and other accidents, or throughnaturalmortality.
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There were no significant effects of rearing or test plant on the number of spider mite eggs lost throughnaturalmortality.
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During the rainy season, the totalnaturalmortalityof immature stages averaged 94.3% with 50.2, 33.7 and 10.4% occurring during egg, larval and pupal stages, respectively.
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Using this model, differences in the level ofnaturalmortalitydo not affect the values of the slope and intercept parameters, just the value of the additional 'control mortality' parameter.
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This 'recruitment overfishing', coupled with the highnaturalmortality, short life spans, and variable recruitment of many small pelagic species, intensifies the expected volatility of stock sizes, catches, and incomes.
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Naturalmortalityand death from diseases and parasitic nematodes could have accounted for additional mortality especially at high density.
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Firstly, successive waves of migrants arriving in the field, and secondly, successive reductions of the population so built up bynaturalmortalityreinforced by secondary migrations out of the field.
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Naturalmortalityis an important determinant of the population dynamics of a species, and an understanding of mortality forces should aid in the development of management strategies for insect pests.
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Densities away from the point source will depend on the distance from the source, the original number hatched and the rate ofnaturalmortalitythat occurs during the dispersion.
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