metapopulation

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English - Turkish
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) Aynı türe ait bir populasyonun kısmen izole olmuş dol verebilen parçalarının o türün kurutulduğu alanlara yeniden yerleşmeleri, yayılmaları
English - English
A group of interacting populations of the same species
is the ecological term for assemblages of plant and animal species within larger areas of space, with long-term survival of the species depending on a shifting balance between local extinctions and recolonizations in the patchwork of a fragmented landscape (Hanski 1999) Metapopulation theory is of particular importance to conservation biologists attempting to understand the process of regional extinction- and survival- of species
a set of partially isolated populations belonging to the same species The different populations are able to exchange individuals and recolonize sites in which the species has recently become extinct
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
a group of subpopulations each isolated in a patch of habitat The persistence of the metapopulation is dependent on the persistence of the subpopulations and movement of animals among subpopulations to exchange genes