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Metapopulation

Organisms & populations

A set of spatially separated local populations of the same species linked by dispersal, with population dynamics occurring both within local populations and across the larger system.

Levins, R. (1969). Some demographic and genetic consequences of environmental heterogeneity for biological control. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America, 15(3), 237–240. Hanski, I. (1999). Metapopulation Ecology. Oxford University Press.