The manner in which patches are delineated in spatially realistic metapopulation models will influence the size, connectivity, and extinction and recolonization dynamics of those patches. Most ...

James M. Bullock, Matthias C. Wichmann, Rosemary S. Hails, David J. Hodgson, Matt J. Alexander, Kathryn Morley, Tatjana Knopp, Lucy E. Ridding and Danny A. P. Hooftman As anthropogenic impacts on the ...

Understanding how populations fluctuate and interact over fragmented landscapes is central to modern ecology and conservation biology. Metapopulation systems, comprising spatially isolated ...

JACKSON — In 1993, Chris Servheen affixed his signature to a plan for the recovery of grizzly bears — a plan that called for rebuilding the bears’ numbers in six geographically distinct populations.