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Résumé :
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This collection of specially commissioned articles looks at fragmented habitats, bringing together recent theoretical advances and empirical studies applying the metapopulation approach. Several chapters closely integrate ecology with genetics and evolutionary biology, and others illustrate how metapopulation concepts and models can be applied to answer questions about conservation, epidemiology, and speciation. The extensive coverage of theory from highly regarded scientists and the many substantive applications in this one-of-a-kind work make it invaluable to graduate students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines. The book presents the following chapters: Introduction. Metapopulation biology: Past, present, and future. Metapopulation dynamics: Perspectives from landscape ecology. Continuous-space models for population dynamics Metapopulation ecology. Metapopulation dynamics in highly fragmented landscapes. Application of stochastic patch occupancy models to real metapopulations. From metapopulations to metacommunities. Metapopulation genetics. Selection and drift in metapopulations. Metapopulations and coalescent theory. Metapopulation quantitative genetics: The quantitative genetics of population differentiation. Evolutionary dynamics in metapopulations. Life history evolution in metapopulations. Selection in metapopulations: The coevolution of phenotype and context. Speciation in metapopulations Integration and applications. Causes, mechanisms and consequences of dispersal. Mechanisms of population extinction. Multilocus genotype methods for the study of metapopulation processes. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of source-sink population dynamics. Metapopulation dynamics of infectious diseases. Towards a metapopulation concept for plants. Long-term study of a plant-pathogen metapopulation. Metapopulation dynamics in changing environments: Butterfly responses to habitat and climate change. Inferring pattern and process in small mammal metapopulations: Insights from ecological and genetic data. Metapopulation dynamics and reserve network design. Viability analysis for endangered metapopulations: A diffusion approximation approach.
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