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   Metapopulation
   A metapopulation consists of a group of spatially separated populations of the same species which interact at some level. The term metapopulation was coined by Richard Levins in 1970 to describe a model of population dynamics of insect pests in agricultural fields, but the idea has been most broadl...
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   Metapopulation
   A group of interconnected subpopulations, usually of subequal size. he features of individuals now founnd in one subpopulation might have been determined by conditions affecting them when they were located in another subpopulation.
   Found op http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/glossary.lmn.html
   
   
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   Metapopulation
   A population perceived to exist as a series of subpopulations, linked by migration between them. However, the rate of migration is limited, such that the dynamics of the metapopulation should be seen as the sum of the dynamics of the individual subpopulations.
   Found op http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/Townsend/Glossary/GlossaryM.html
   
   
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   metapopulation
   (from the article `population ecology`) Although the dynamics and evolution of a single closed population are governed by its life history, populations of many species are not completely ...
   Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/79
   
   
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   Metapopulation
   a collection or set of local populations living where discrete patches of the area are habitable and the intervening regions are not (Gilpin 1980:127); basic demographic unit composed of a set of populations in different habitat patches linked by movement of individuals (Merriam and Wegner 1990:151)...
   Found op http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/avian/glossary.htm
   
   

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