Dispersal altering local states has a limited effect on persistence of a metapopulation

Metapopulations are collections of local populations connected by dispersal. Metapopulation models often assume would-be colonists affect the states of local populations they disperse from and those they disperse to. Here, we build a new framework to include that effect and to assess the impact of d...

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Main Authors: Jingjing Xu, Geoff Wild
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Biological Dynamics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17513758.2018.1469791