How to Use subpopulation in a Sentence

subpopulation

noun

• The subpopulation of bears in the area is already among the most threatened of any in the world.
  — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2020
• The three migrated about 150 miles to the Swedish subpopulation.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• There are thought to be about 900 animals in the subpopulation.
  — Henry Fountain New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• But only a few of the 19 subpopulations of polar bears are growing.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 2 Jan. 2018
• One is that the killer whales have invented a new fad, something that subpopulations of these members of the dolphin family are known to do.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
• The Arctic refuge is an important denning area for the Southern Beaufort Sea subpopulation of polar bears, one of the most threatened in the world.
  — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• In 2013 the Institute of Medicine set out a research agenda to figure out why people buy guns, and what subpopulations own them.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
• Polar bears, which occur in 19 subpopulations throughout the Arctic, rely on sea ice to hunt for seals.
  — Tammy Webber, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
• The strait, which is bordered by Morocco to the south and by Spain to the north, is home to a distinct—and critically endangered—subpopulation of fewer than 50 orcas.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
• But almost from the time of their discovery, scientists have noted that subpopulations of these NK cells reside full time in the liver, skin, kidney and uterus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
• Debt relief was even found to have a small but significant negative effect on the mental health of certain subpopulations in the study.
  — Katherine Hempstead, STAT, 7 June 2024
• The survival rate of the largest caribou subpopulation increased enough to stabilize in the hunting area, but continued to plummet in the area where hunting was not allowed to increase.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• McInnes and the team believes that these outer coast whales are a distinct subpopulation that has developed these hunting techniques in such a deep water habitat.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2024
• In the southern Beaufort Sea and in the western Hudson Bay — the two subpopulations studied the most by researchers — bears are going into the winter skinnier and in poorer condition.
  — Erica Goode, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
• Researchers agree on the outlines of the story: A subpopulation of A. aegypti split from a harmless ancestor that preferred to live in forests and feed on animals, not people.
  — Byjoshua Sokol, science.org, 27 Mar. 2023
• Amid the destruction of species across much of Africa, some subpopulations have nevertheless thrived in certain areas.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
• In other words, people in one subpopulation would have to work significantly harder to achieve the same outcome.
  — Karthik Kannan, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2019
• In the years after the spill, 15 whales either went missing or were found dead, all but dooming a genetically distinct subpopulation.
  — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2022
• The boxes span the 1st to 3rd quartile in ancestry within each subpopulation from each respective ancestral group (the whiskers represent the ranges).
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2010
• The subpopulation of orcas in this region began harassing boats, most often by biting at their rudder, in 2020.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
• For analysis of specific subpopulations, the margins of error were typically in the area of 4%.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2019
• There are 19 polar bear subpopulations in the Arctic; the researchers have proposed making the southeast Greenland bears the 20th subpopulation.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 16 June 2022
• There are 19 polar bear subpopulations in the Arctic; the researchers have proposed making the southeast Greenland bears the 20th subpopulation.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 16 June 2022
• Scientists described their discovery of this 20th subpopulation of polar bears in a study released Thursday in the journal Science.
  — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
• Due to their isolation, the polar bears are so genetically distinct that the researchers propose that the southeastern Greenland polar bears should be considered the 20th subpopulation of the species.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 June 2022
• Four of the subpopulations are declining, five are relatively stable, and only one is growing.
  — Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 8 Jan. 2017
• The Trump Administration will interpret this in more rational ways, versus Obama guidance that applied the standards down to how plans would affect subpopulations in the state.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
• The animals have enough space and are not split into unsustainable subpopulations.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• They are awarded based on student and subpopulation scores in state or nationally normed assessments, as well as graduation rates.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2023
• The Iberian orca is a subpopulation of the Atlantic orca population.
  — USA TODAY, 8 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024