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| Discrete area of suitable habitat (place where an organism lives) within a larger landscape of unsuitable habitat |
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| Environmental Stochasticity |
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Definition
| Random variations in the environment that have a direct effect on birth and death rates. |
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Definition
| An increase in population size and a decrease in the risk of extinction brought about by an increase of immigration into a population. |
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| Mainland-Island Metapopulation Model |
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Definition
| A single habitat patch (the mainland) is the dominant source of individuals emigrating to other habitat patches (island) within a metapopulation network. |
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