infrapopulation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
infra- + population
Noun[edit]
infrapopulation (plural infrapopulations)
- (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[1], volume 142, :
- 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.