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The models of the two previous chapters concentrated on biomanipulation of populations within a given habitat. In this chapter we turn to the colonization of new habitat by a species. Our example is for the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum), which is a pond breeding species found throughout most of the eastern USA and southern Canada, west to eastern Iowa, and eastern Texas.
The salamanders, like tiny birds, locked into formation, fly down into the endless mysteries of the transforming water, and how could anyone believe that anything in this world is only what it appears to be—that anything is ever final—that anything, in spite of its absence, ever dies a perfect death? (from the poem ‘What Is It?’)”.
(Mary Oliver, House of Light)
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Hannon, B., Ruth, M. (2014). Salamander Dispersal. In: Modeling Dynamic Biological Systems. Modeling Dynamic Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05615-9_38
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