Metapopulation Dynamics: Empirical and Theoretical InvestigationsMichael Gilpin Metapopulation Dynamics: Empirical and Theoretical Investigations covers the 1989 proceedings of a metapopulation dynamics workshop held at Lammi Biological Station, Helsinki, Finland. It is divided into 18 chapters that cover various approaches to spatially structured population and community dynamics. After briefly discussing the history of metapopulation ideas and the major conceptual links, the book covers types of studies that have been conducted on single-species and multispecies metapopulations. Then, it examines the relationships between metapopulation dynamics, the equilibrium theory of island biogeography, and the dynamics of populations living in patchy environments. It further tackles practical issues and the links between metapopulation dynamics and landscape ecology, and between metapopulation dynamics and conservation biology. Chapters 4 and 5 present structured models describing changes in the number of individuals within patches and an empirical evaluation of local extinction in metapopulation studies. The subsequent chapters discuss several aspects of metapopulation, including dispersal and connectivity, colonization, conspecific attraction, extinction and isolation, and forest fragmentation. The latter chapters describe the concept of habitat fragmentation, the diversity and competition in metapopulations, the community collapse, and the effects of metapopulation studies in predator-prey systems. |
Contents
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an empirical evaluation | 73 |
Chapter 6 Dispersal and connectivity in metapopulations | 89 |
a review of theory and observations | 105 |
Chapter 8 The effect of conspecific attraction on metapopulation dynamics | 123 |
the case of the pool frog Rana lessonae | 135 |
conceptual issues and the evidence | 149 |
Chapter 12 Investigating species incidence over habitat fragments of different areasa look at error estimation | 177 |
Chapter 13 Disturbance interspecific interaction and diversity in metapopulations | 193 |
Chapter 14 Interspecific competition in metapopulations | 219 |
Chapter 15 Invasion resistance species buildup and community collapse in metapopulation models with interspecies competition | 239 |
predatorprey patch models of the LotkaVolterra type | 267 |
Chapter 17 An acarine predatorprey metapopulation system inhabiting greenhouse cucumbers | 285 |
Chapter 18 Studying metapopulation effects in predatorprey systems | 305 |
INDEX | 325 |
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Alpha diversity American Naturalist assumption become extinct behaviour Bengtsson biogeography Biological Journal birds butterfly clan coexistence colonization rate competitors Conservation Biology conspecific attraction core community correlated Daphnia defined definition demographic stochasticity density dispersal rates distribution disturbance diversity Ebenhard empty patches environmental equation equilibrium experimental extinction probability extinction rate field first fit fluctuations frequency genetic Gilpin habitat fragmentation habitat patches heterogeneity heterozygosity immigration inbreeding incidence functions increase individuals influence interspecific competition invader invasion island biogeography islands isolation Levins model Linnean Society local extinction mammals matrix metapopulation dynamics metapopulation models metapopulation persistence metapopulation structure Minimum viable populations Murdoch number of species occupied patches Oecologia parameters parasitoids plants pool frog population dynamics predator-prey interactions predator-prey systems predators prediction prey patches propagule recolonization regional stochasticity reproduction rockpools Sabelis sampling scale Schoener significant simulation single-species Sjogren spatial species number spider mites stability studies turnover unpublished variable vole