natural mortality

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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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Examples of natural mortality

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These dormant stages could be subject to naturalmortality but were free of insecticidal effects.
Prognosis depended on whether the treatment was given, the response to treatment, and the naturalmortality of each group, based on age repartition.
A working model can be based on the expectation of decreasing naturalmortality rates with successive, increasingly robust, life stages.
Factors affecting the naturalmortality of the coffee leafminer were studied in two periods in 2001/2002 and in three parts of the canopy.
Out of the 64 control replicates, we computed mean values for the naturalmortality of the 2 prey classes.
The highest risk of naturalmortality was for respiratory disease.
This means that our model largely failed to include the locally aggregated pattern of naturalmortality.
More speculatively, the delays in growth seen during this study might expose vulnerable stages to natural enemies for longer and so increase naturalmortality.
Secondly, an essential quantitative element in transmission is amplification to offset the considerable naturalmortality of ticks.
The high risk of naturalmortality among patients with schizophrenia did not significantly change during the era of psychiatric bed reductions.
Some plants were lost through burning, trail-clearing and other accidents, or through naturalmortality.
There were no significant effects of rearing or test plant on the number of spider mite eggs lost through naturalmortality.
During the rainy season, the total naturalmortality of immature stages averaged 94.3% with 50.2, 33.7 and 10.4% occurring during egg, larval and pupal stages, respectively.
Using this model, differences in the level of naturalmortality do not affect the values of the slope and intercept parameters, just the value of the additional 'control mortality' parameter.
This 'recruitment overfishing', coupled with the high naturalmortality, short life spans, and variable recruitment of many small pelagic species, intensifies the expected volatility of stock sizes, catches, and incomes.
Naturalmortality and death from diseases and parasitic nematodes could have accounted for additional mortality especially at high density.
Firstly, successive waves of migrants arriving in the field, and secondly, successive reductions of the population so built up by naturalmortality reinforced by secondary migrations out of the field.
Naturalmortality is 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.
Densities away from the point source will depend on the distance from the source, the original number hatched and the rate of naturalmortality that occurs during the dispersion.
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