Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-504) and index.

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

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