Refugia and connectivity sustain amphibian metapopulations afflicted by disease
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Refugia and connectivity sustain amphibian metapopulations afflicted by disease.
Metapopulation persistence in fragmented landscapes depends on habitat patches that can support resilient local populations and sufficient connectivity between patches. Yet epidemiological theory for metapopulations has largely overlooked the capacity of particular patches to act as refuges from disease, and has suggested that connectivity can undermine persistence. Here, we show that relativel...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology Letters
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1461-023X,1461-0248
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12463