Metapopulation ecology
Metapopulation is the ecological term for assemblages of plant and animal species within larger areas of space, with long-term survival of the species depending on a shifting balance between local extinctions and recolonizations in the patchwork of fragmented landscape. Metapopulation theory is of particular importance to conservation biologists attempting to understand the processes of regional extinction - and survival - of species
Models (form)
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Preliminaries
Metapopulations of two local populations
The levins model and its variant
Spatially explicit approaches
Metapopulation genetics and evolution
Interacting metapopulations and metacommunities
Spatial structure of populations
Mapping species occurrence on habitat availability
Metapopulation dynamics and conservation biology
Metapopulation patterns and processes
The incidence function model, applications