Pattern does not equal process: What does patch occupancy really tell us about metapopulation dynamics?

American Naturalist

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 351-362

  Clinchy, Michael ^a   Haydon, Daniel T ^a   Smith, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colonization; Dispersal; Extinction; Metapopulation; Pikas; Rescue effect

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING;

OCHOTONA PRINCEPS;

EID: 0036125114     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/338990     Document Type: Article

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