 Population Growth
"Population Growth" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Increase, over a specific period of time, in the number of individuals living in a country or region.
| Descriptor ID |
D011158
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.240.600.660 N01.224.625.660 N06.850.505.400.700.660
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| Concept/Terms |
High Fertility Population- High Fertility Population
- High Fertility Populations
- Population, High Fertility
- Populations, High Fertility
Natural Increase- Natural Increase
- Increase, Natural
- Increases, Natural
- Natural Increases
Population Explosion- Population Explosion
- Explosion, Population
- Explosions, Population
- Population Explosions
Population Growth Estimation- Population Growth Estimation
- Estimation, Population Growth
- Estimations, Population Growth
- Growth Estimation, Population
- Growth Estimations, Population
- Population Growth Estimations
Past Trends- Past Trends
- Past Trend
- Trend, Past
- Trends, Past
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| 1991 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Population Growth" by people in Profiles.
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Kontopoulos DG, Smith TP, Barraclough TG, Pawar S. Adaptive evolution shapes the present-day distribution of the thermal sensitivity of population growth rate. PLoS Biol. 2020 10; 18(10):e3000894.
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Brown BP, Chor J. What Are Risks and Benefits of Not Incorporating Information about Population Growth and Its Impact on Climate Change into Reproductive Care? AMA J Ethics. 2017 12 01; 19(12):1157-1163.
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Nelson MR, Wegmann D, Ehm MG, Kessner D, St Jean P, Verzilli C, Shen J, Tang Z, Bacanu SA, Fraser D, Warren L, Aponte J, Zawistowski M, Liu X, Zhang H, Zhang Y, Li J, Li Y, Li L, Woollard P, Topp S, Hall MD, Nangle K, Wang J, Abecasis G, Cardon LR, Z?llner S, Whittaker JC, Chissoe SL, Novembre J, Mooser V. An abundance of rare functional variants in 202 drug target genes sequenced in 14,002 people. Science. 2012 Jul 06; 337(6090):100-4.
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Morris WF, Pfister CA, Tuljapurkar S, Haridas CV, Boggs CL, Boyce MS, Bruna EM, Church DR, Coulson T, Doak DF, Forsyth S, Gaillard JM, Horvitz CC, Kalisz S, Kendall BE, Knight TM, Lee CT, Menges ES. Longevity can buffer plant and animal populations against changing climatic variability. Ecology. 2008 Jan; 89(1):19-25.
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Abbott KC, Dwyer G. Food limitation and insect outbreaks: complex dynamics in plant-herbivore models. J Anim Ecol. 2007 Sep; 76(5):1004-14.
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Morris WF, Tuljapurkar S, Haridas CV, Menges ES, Horvitz CC, Pfister CA. Sensitivity of the population growth rate to demographic variability within and between phases of the disturbance cycle. Ecol Lett. 2006 Dec; 9(12):1331-41.
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Ozik J, Hunt BR, Ott E. Formation of multifractal population patterns from reproductive growth and local resettlement. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Oct; 72(4 Pt 2):046213.
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Drury KL, Dwyer G. Combining stochastic models with experiments to understand the dynamics of monarch butterfly colonization. Am Nat. 2005 Dec; 166(6):731-50.
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Ptak SE, Przeworski M. Evidence for population growth in humans is confounded by fine-scale population structure. Trends Genet. 2002 Nov; 18(11):559-63.
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Pfister CA. Patterns of variance in stage-structured populations: evolutionary predictions and ecological implications. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Jan 06; 95(1):213-8.
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