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Populations in Landscapes

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In fragmented landscapes, species are often found in spatially separated, but interacting metapopulations. The combination of dispersal, competition and environmental variations lead to distribution patterns, especially clumps, patches, boundaries and zones. Pollen and charcoal analyses show that fires can trigger rapid changes in forest composition. Phylogeography makes it possible to trace postglacial migrations and genetic variation.

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    Melitaea cinxia distribution on the Ã…land islands is an example of a metapopulation. Later studies by the same authors investigated their population dynamics in more detail, and used this species to demonstrate that modelling metapopulation dynamics can help elucidate the effects of habitat patch size, degree of isolation and habitat quality.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    David G. Green

  2. Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia

    Nicholas I. Klomp

  3. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

    Glyn Rimmington

  4. Fremont, CA, USA

    Suzanne Sadedin

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Green, D.G., Klomp, N.I., Rimmington, G., Sadedin, S. (2020). Populations in Landscapes. In: Complexity in Landscape Ecology. Landscape Series, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46773-9_6

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