Multi-scale processes in metapopulations: Contributions of stage structure, rescue effect, and correlated extinctions

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2465-2473

  Sutherland, Chris ^a,b   Elston, David A ^b   Lambin, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arvicola amphibius; Bayesian models; Colonization; Dispersal; Metapopulation; Rescue effect; Scale; Spatially correlated extinction; Stage structure; Stochastic patch occupancy model, SPOM; Water vole

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COLONIZATION; CORRELATION; DISPERSAL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT CONSERVATION; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION SIZE; RODENT; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCOTLAND; TIME FACTORS;

ARVICOLA; MICROTUS RICHARDSONI;

EID: 84869185043     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0172.1     Document Type: Article

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