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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Demographically-weighted connectivity; landscape connectivity; metapopulation; stochastic patch occupancy model
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On Spatiotemporal Connectivity Dynamics: Perspectives From A Naturally Fragmented Metapopulation, Joseph Drake
On Spatiotemporal Connectivity Dynamics: Perspectives From A Naturally Fragmented Metapopulation, Joseph Drake
Doctoral Dissertations
Connectivity has quickly become a central tenet of ecological research, frequently evoked for conservation research and management activities. However, the concept of connectivity has proliferated into many forms for many different perspectives. Generally said, population distributions, demography, landscape, and dispersal all contribute to connectivity in a meaningful way. While great progress has been made in increasing realism in connectivity, one component seemed to stand out as being underappreciated: the role of population dynamics in the application of landscape connectivity. I began to acquire an appreciation for how common modeling approaches make assumptions about these core components of connectivity. In Chapter …