population loss

  • 1Population loss due to Atlantic slave trade — ▪ Table Population loss due to Atlantic slave trade       from Africa as a whole from western Africa north of the Equator arriving overseas leaving Africa percentage estimated total before 1600 290,000 370,000 60 220,000 1601–1700 1,490,000 1,870 …

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  • 2Population decline — can refer to the decline in population of any organism, but this article refers to population decline in humans. It is a term usually used to describe any great reduction in a human population.[1] It can be used to refer to long term demographic… …

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  • 3Population transfer — is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority, most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion. Banishment or exile is a similar process, but is forcibly applied to… …

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  • 4Population bottleneck — followed by recovery or extinction A population bottleneck (or genetic bottleneck) is an evolutionary event in which a significant percentage of a population or species is killed or otherwise prevented from reproducing.[1] A slightly different… …

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  • 5Population viability analysis — (PVA) is a species specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology. It is traditionally defined as the process that determines the probability that a population will go extinct within a given number of years. More… …

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  • 6Population mobility — Population mobility, geographic mobility or more simply mobility is a statistic that measures migration within a population. It is most commonly used in demography and human geography, it may also be used to describe the movement of animals… …

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  • 7population ecology — Introduction       study of the processes that affect the distribution and abundance of animal and plant populations.       A population is a subset of individuals of one species that occupies a particular geographic area and, in sexually… …

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  • 8Loss of Life in the Stalin Era — Alexander Yakovlev in a recent book, A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002), put the number of deaths due to the Soviet system at 60 million. Yakovlev, who along with Mikhail Gorbachev was an… …

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  • 9Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas — Natives of North America. Natives of South America. The po …

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  • 10population — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ dense, large ▪ small, sparse ▪ overall, total ▪ The country has a total population of 65 million …

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