Patchy populations in stochastic environments: Critical number of patches for persistence

American Naturalist

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 128-137

  Bascompte, Jordi ^a   Possingham, Hugh ^a   Roughgarden, Joan ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental stochasticity; Extinction; Geometric mean fitness; Reserves; Spatially distributed model

Indexed keywords

PATCH DYNAMICS; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING;

EID: 0036168060     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324793     Document Type: Article

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