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- noun ecology a group of interacting
populations of the same species
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Examples
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Paper Title: The impact of sea-level rise on Snowy Plovers in Florida: integrating geomorphological, habitat, and metapopulation models
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011
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Paper Title: The impact of sea-level rise on Snowy Plovers in Florida: integrating geomorphological, habitat, and metapopulation models
David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011
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The metapopulation capacity of a fragmented landscape.
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Local habitats need to be reconnected and managed to slow succession to woodlands in order to restore metapopulation dynamics.
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Bog turtle habitat conservation – Significant threats to bog turtles include habitat destruction, metapopulation fragmentation, excessive groundwater withdrawal, and collection.
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Primate survival in community-owned forest fragments: Are metapopulation models useful amidst intensive use?
Protected areas 2009
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Moreover, as de Queiroz points out, even in descriptions of species as lineages, the general metapopulation concept of species was implied.
The moment one species becomes two AYDIN 2007
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A diagrammatic representation of speciation metapopulation lineage divergence.
The moment one species becomes two AYDIN 2007
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But, otherwise, I seem to agree with de Queiroz that a species is a metapopulation lineage evolving separately from other lineages.
The moment one species becomes two AYDIN 2007
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All other properties that have previously been attributed to species SC1 thru SC8 in the drawing above, for example, reproductive isolation, or the occupancy of a distinct niche, become properties that species as metapopulation lineages may or may not acquire.
Archive 2007-02-01 AYDIN 2007
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