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Persistence Metrics For A River Population In A Two-Dimensional Benthic-Drift Model, Yu Jin, Qihua Huang, Julia Blackburn, Mark A. Lewis
Persistence Metrics For A River Population In A Two-Dimensional Benthic-Drift Model, Yu Jin, Qihua Huang, Julia Blackburn, Mark A. Lewis
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The study of population persistence in river ecosystems is key for understanding population dynamics, invasions, and instream flow needs. In this paper, we extend theories of persistence measures for population models in one-dimensional rivers to a benthic-drift model in two-dimensional depth- averaged rivers. We define the fundamental niche and the source and sink metric, and establish the net reproductive rate R0 to determine global persistence of a population in a spatially heterogeneous two-dimensional river. We then couple the benthic-drift model into the two-dimensional computational river model, River2D, to study the growth and persistence of a population and its source …