mortality

French translation: mortalité

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English term or phrase:	mortality
French translation:	mortalité
Entered by:	NikkoTh

14:38 Mar 28, 2020

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Environment & Ecology

English term or phrase: mortality

Elephants (Loxodonta africana) significantly alter ecosystem structure and composition through browsing (e.g. pollarding, debarking and toppling).
Such browsing is predicted to intensify during severe drought which may become more common with climate change.
Here, we make use of an elephant impact survey from 2012-2015 and during the El Nino drought of 2015-16 at Pongola Game Reserve (107km2), KwaZulu Natal, to investigate how severe drought influenced damage severity and selection of different tree heights and species by elephants in this small reserve.
Contrary to expectations, damage to common species did not change with severe drought.
Crown damage had the highest predicted probability across heights (29%-90%) and species (46%-75%) regardless of drought.
However, we found severe drought increased the predicted probabilities of crown damage to smaller trees 6m and severe damage at 4-6 m. Consequently, elephant damage during severe drought may alter vegetation structure by severely damaging or killing large trees (>4 m) and extensively damaging the crowns of trees

NikkoTh

mortalité

Explanation:
Applicable aux végétaux comme à tout le vivant

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mortalité

Antoine Dequidt

létalité

Cyril Tollari

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mortalité

Explanation:
Applicable aux végétaux comme à tout le vivant

Antoine Dequidt
France
Local time: 09:00
Specializes in field
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French
PRO pts in category: 68

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Merci !

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létalité

Explanation:
On parle ici de la capacité des éléphants à affecter un autre être vivant. Mortalité pour un titre évoque plus la mortalité des éléphants, et serait moins adapté. Létalité n'est pas ambigu.

létalité
Qui provoque la mort; qui fait qu'un organisme (animal ou végétal) n'est pas ou n'est plus viable
https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/létalité

Malaria and tuberculosis prevalence, mortality, prevention and treatment
Létalité (et pas mortalité), prévention et traitement du paludisme et de la tuberculose

La létalité annuelle du requin/surf est donc inférieure à 0,00002%. (et pas la mortalité, qui serait ambiguë)
https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/expertiseclinique/2013/07/24/req...

Cyril Tollari
France
Local time: 09:00
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

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