Local populations and metapopulations are both natural and operational categories
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The concept of metapopulation biology, dating from 1969, remains operational and natural, although defining ecological categories remains challenging. Demographic rates such as emigration, birth, immigration and death cannot be seen as separate from a metapopulation's environmental conditions.
Publication Name: Oikos
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0030-1299
Year: 2003
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Assembly rules for functional groups of North American shrews: effects of geographic range and habitat partitioning
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The representation of shrew species within assemblages at 197 sites in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA was examined. Assemblages were classified according to representation of functional groups, including fossorial, small epigeal, and large epigeal.
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Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0030-1299
Year: 2004
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