Converse of object

• serve: Background The Bertram Diabetes Center serves a population of about 510,000 in East Norfolk, with a diabetes prevalence of 2.5 per cent.

• grow: Taylor was helped by Manchester's fast growing population.

Adjective modifier

• civilian: For detection of these agents for the civilian population, of course, we have absolutely nothing.

• indigenous: More than 40 % of these deaths took place in the poorest regions of Peru where the indigenous populations are concentrated.

• total: Table 43 Showing by provinces the total population of Ireland at each census period, 1821 1911.

• general: They are much less likely to have access to a car than the general population.

• diverse: Food London offers a huge variety of cuisines as a result of its ethnically diverse population.

Modifies a noun

• density: The population density was assumed to be unchanged up to the year 2020.

• dynamics: Ecology explores ecology at all levels from individual behavior and life history strategies to population dynamics and community structure.

• projection: Population projections show a substantial loss in the city up to the year 2006.

• growth: To many environmentalists, it's a puzzle how anyone could doubt the urgency of checking human population growth.

• estimate: IS Claim rates are calculated using the people aged 16-59 from the 2003 Mid-Year population estimates.

• genetics: Research Current research projects include: Population genetics and host race formation in aphids of the Myzus persicae group.

Noun used with modifier

• prison: Florida has the highest prison population per capita in the nation.

• fox: Without controlled culling, the majority of the fox population would be killed, probably less humanely by poisoning, snaring or shooting.

• adult: Participants Random sample of the adult population of Hamilton, Ontario.

• squirrel: Target: Identify all woodlands containing both red and gray squirrel populations and contact and advise owners on best management practice.

• breeding: Their north Atlantic breeding populations are estimated to have declined by about 90 per cent in the last 20 years.