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Experimental demonstration of accelerated extinction in source-sink metapopulations

Population extinction is a fundamental ecological process which may be aggravated by the exchange of organisms between productive (source) and unproductive (sink) habitat patches. The extent to which such source-sink exchange affects extinction rates is unknown. We conducted an experiment in which m...

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Autores principales: Drake, John M, Griffen, Blaine D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3797484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.713