I forgot to mention a paper on metapopulation dynamics that appeared in Science a couple of weeks ago: Metapopulation persistence with age-dependent disturbance or succession, by Alan Hastings. Hastings points out that persisting populations in a metapopulation can give a false sense of security, because they may persist in spite of low colonization rates. Once again the article points out that it's easy to underestimate the risks populations face and hard to overestimate them.
Posted by Kent at October 3, 2003 10:16 AM | TrackBack