Should metapopulation restoration strategies increase patch area or number of patches?
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Should metapopulation restoration strategies increase patch area or number of patches?
Managers of species that exist as metapopulations are faced with many decisions. In this paper we use a decision-theory framework to examine a fundamental management question: Should we focus on decreasing the local extinction probability of subpopulations by increasing the size of their patch, or should metapopulation viability be improved by constructing more patches? Using a spatially implic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecological Applications
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1051-0761
DOI: 10.1890/08-2216.1