A metapopulation model with Markovian landscape dynamics

R. McVinish, P.K. Pollett and Y.S. Chan

Theoretical Population Biology, 2016, vol. 112, issue C, 80-96

Abstract: We study a variant of Hanski’s incidence function model that allows habitat patch characteristics to vary over time following a Markov process. The widely studied case where patches are classified as either suitable or unsuitable is included as a special case. For large metapopulations, we determine a recursion for the probability that a given habitat patch is occupied. This recursion enables us to clarify the role of landscape dynamics in the survival of a metapopulation. In particular, we show that landscape dynamics affects the persistence and equilibrium level of the metapopulation primarily through its effect on the distribution of a local population’s life span.

Keywords: Dynamic landscape; Equilibrium; Incidence function model; Markov dual process; Persistence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2016.08.005

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