Persistence, extinction, and critical patch number for island populations
- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Mathematical Biology
- Vol. 24 (6) , 617-625
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00275506
Abstract
Sufficient conditions are derived for persistence and extinction of a population inhabiting several islands. Discrete reaction-diffusion population models are analyzed which describe growth and diffusion of a population on a group of islands or a patch environment. A critical patch number is defined as the number of islands below which the population goes extinct on that group of islands. It is shown that population persistence on one island leads to population persistence for the entire archipelago. Both single-species and multi-species models are discussed.Keywords
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