populációját

Populációja or populációja refers to the population of a species or group within a defined area. The base noun populáció means the total number of individuals of a given species or group living in a specific locale. In Hungarian, the form populációját is a possessive construction combined with a definite direct object marker, used when the population belongs to or is associated with another noun and is the object of the verb, as in az adott faj populációját becsülték (“they estimated its population”).

In ecology and demography, the concept of a population encompasses several interrelated metrics. Population size, often denoted N, counts individuals; population density measures how many individuals occur per unit area or volume. Population structure describes age, sex, and sometimes spatial arrangement. Growth rate, or r, indicates how the population changes over time, and is frequently modeled with ideas like carrying capacity (K) in logistic growth. Data are gathered through censuses, sampling surveys, or mark–recapture techniques, among other methods. The term populációja or populációját appears in scientific writing when specifying the population belonging to a species, habitat, or study area, for example when stating “a ragadozó madarak populációját vizsgálták” (they studied the population of predatory birds).

The word populáció is of Latin origin (populatio) and is widely used in Hungarian scientific and public discourse. The possessive form populációját illustrates how Hungarian marks possession and definiteness while referring to a population in a concrete, observable context.