infrapopulation

English

Etymology

infra- +‎ population

Noun

infrapopulation (plural infrapopulations)

  1. (ecology) A subset of a population
    • 2015 June 10, MELISSA A. BECK, CAMERON P. GOATER, DOUGLAS D. COLWELL, “Comparative recruitment, morphology and reproduction of a generalist trematode, Dicrocoelium dendriticum, in three species of host”, in Parasitology‎, volume 142, →DOI:
      If these data are assumed to represent random samples of flukes from the three host species, the Lorenz curves indicate that approximately 10% of flukes in any infrapopulation contribute about 30–35% of all eggs shed by a particular host.
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