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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 | Rgriesbach@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Iberian orca is a subpopulation of the Atlantic orca population.
    USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
  • However, the behavior could have spread from the Spain and Portugal subpopulation, perhaps transmitted by very mobile orcas.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • The bears live in southeast Greenland and are a genetically distinct subpopulation, which suggests they’ve been isolated from other polar bears for around 200 years, according to a paper published this week in Science.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2022
  • Laidre said this new subpopulation — estimated to number in just the hundreds — lives at the most southern reaches of polar bear distribution, technically in the subarctic region.
    Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 16 June 2022

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