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metapopulation: a standalone construct

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metapopulation1 CONSTRUCTMetapopulationLEVINS · ECOLOGY

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Ecology

a set of local populations in separate habitat patches that persists through a balance of local extinctions and recolonization by dispersal.

In ecology, metapopulation refers to a set of local populations in separate habitat patches that persists through a balance of local extinctions and recolonization by dispersal. This meaning comes from Levins (1969) in Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America.[1]

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References

  1. Levins, R. (1969). Some Demographic and Genetic Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity for Biological Control. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America, 15(3), 237-240. https://doi.org/10.1093/besa/15.3.237

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