Metapopulation

Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, D.C.

... Room, Mezzanine Level, Marriott. Part of an AMS Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations: Theory and Applications. metapopulation Models in Tick-borne Disease Transmission Modeling, Holly D. Gaff (Old Dominion University), Monday, January 5, 8:30-8:55 a.m., Maryland Suite C, ...

Metapopulation in Biological News

The song doesn't remain the same in fragmented bird populations

... individual, song is considered an indicator of male quality. Paola Laiolo and colleagues at the Spanish Council of Research (CSIC) studied the metapopulation system of the Duponts lark in north-eastern Spain and found an association between individual song diversity and the viability of the population as a ...

A special issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences

... outcrossing and preview future developments in the field, as the wealth of new data becomes available. Daniel Schoen and Jeremiah Busch use a novel metapopulation perspective in their discussion of the importance of group-level selection of mating systems. The final two articles in the sectionthe first by John ...

New discovery: Molecular variation in one gene affects the growth of natural populations

... hundreds of well-characterized local populations of the Glanville fritillary in the Åland Islands in Finland, where the butterfly has a large metapopulation that has been studied for 15 years. ...

Metapopulation in Biological Definition

Metapopulation

... A metapopulation consists of a group of spatially separated ... species which interact at some level. The term metapopulation was coined by Richard Levins in 1969 to ... or artificially fragmented habitats . A metapopulation is generally considered to consist to several ...

Metapopulation in Biological Dictionary

Metapopulation

... A metapopulation consists of a group of spatially separated ... species which interact at some level. The term metapopulation was coined by Richard Levins in 1969 to describe ... of a species. For a given species, each metapopulation is continually being modified by increases ...