Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-504) and index.
Metapopulation approach, its history, conceptual domain, and application to conservation / Empirical evidence for metapopulation dynamics / Metapopulation dynamics and landscape ecology / Metapopulation dynamics : from concepts and observations to predictive models / Structured metapopulation models / Two-species metapopulation models / From metapopulation dynamics to community structure : some consequences of spatial heterogeneity / Genetic effective size of a metapopulation / Evolution of metapopulations / Extinction models for local populations / Studying transfer processes in metapopulations : emigration, migration, and colonization / Migration within metapopulations : the impact upon local population dynamics / Evolution of migration rate and other traits : the metapopulation effect / Spatial processes in host-parasite genetics / Butterfly metapopulations / Tritrophic metapopulation dynamics : a case study of ragwort, the cinnabar moth, and the parasitoid Cotesia popularis / Spatially correlated dynamics in a pika metapopulation / Case study of genetic structure in a plant metapopulation / Ilkka Hanski and Daniel Simberloff -- Susan Harrison and Andrew D. Taylor -- John A. Wiens -- Ilkka Hanski -- Mats Gyllenberg, Ilkka Hanski, and Alan Hastings -- Sean Nee, Robert M. May and Michael P. Hassell -- Robert D. Holt -- Philip W. Hedrick and Michael E. Gilpin -- N.H. Barton and Michael C. Whitlock -- Patrick Foley -- Rolf A. Ims and Nigel G. Yoccoz -- Peter B. Stacey, Veronica A. Johnson, and Mark L. Taper -- Isabelle Olivieri and Pierre-Henri Gouyon -- Steven A. Frank -- Chris D. Thomas and Ilkka Hanski -- Ed van der Meijden and Catharina A.M. van der Veen-van Wijk -- Andrew T. Smith and Michael E. Gilpin -- Barbara E. Giles and Jérôme Goudet.
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Population biology. Biologie des populations. Population biology. Populatiedynamica. Biocénoses. Biologie des populations. Évolution (biologie) Biogéographie. Populationsbiologie.