Metapopulation Dynamics: Empirical and Theoretical Investigations
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Metapopulation Dynamics: Empirical and Theoretical Investigations

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Metapopulation Dynamics: Empirical and Theoretical Investigations

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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.

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780122841200
eBook ISBN
9780323155236
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Zoology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Metapopulation Dynamics: Empirical and Theoretical Investigations
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. Metapopulation dynamics: brief history and conceptual domain
  7. Chapter 2. Single-species metapopulation dynamics: concepts, models and observations
  8. Chapter 3. Linking local and regional dynamics in stochastic metapopulation models
  9. Chapter 4. Structured models of metapopulation dynamics
  10. Chapter 5. Local extinction in a metapopulation context: an empirical evaluation
  11. Chapter 6. Dispersal and connectivity in metapopulations
  12. Chapter 7. Colonization in metapopulations: a review of theory and observations
  13. Chapter 8. The effect of conspecific attraction on metapopulation dynamics
  14. Chapter 9. Extinction and isolation gradients in metapopulations: the case of the pool frog (Rana lessonae)
  15. Chapter 10. Consequences of forest fragmentation for the dynamics of bird populations: conceptual issues and the evidence
  16. Chapter 11. The genetic effective size of a metapopulation
  17. Chapter 12. Investigating species incidence over habitat fragments of different areas—a look at error estimation
  18. Chapter 13. Disturbance, interspecific interaction and diversity in metapopulations
  19. Chapter 14. Interspecific competition in metapopulations
  20. Chapter 15. Invasion resistance, species build-up and community collapse in metapopulation models with interspecies competition
  21. Chapter 16. Metapopulation persistence despite local extinction: predator-prey patch models of the Lotka-Volterra type
  22. Chapter 17. An acarine predator-prey metapopulation system inhabiting greenhouse cucumbers
  23. Chapter 18. Studying metapopulation effects in predator-prey systems
  24. INDEX