title: Metapopulation models for seasonally migratory animals.
abstract: Metapopulation models are widely used to study species that occupy patchily distributed habitat, but are rarely applied to migratory species, because of the difficulty of identifying demographically independent subpopulations. Here, we extend metapopulation theory to describe the directed seasonal movement of migratory populations between two sets of habitat patches, breeding and non-breeding, with potentially different colonization and extinction rates between patch types. By extending the classic metapopulation model, we show that migratory metapopulations will persist if the product of the two colonization rates exceeds the product of extinction rates. Further, we develop a spatially realistic migratory metapopulation model and derive a landscape metric-the migratory metapopulation capacity-that determines persistence. This new extension to metapopulation theory introduces an important tool for the management and conservation of migratory species and may also be applicable to model the dynamics of two host-parasite systems.
authors.affiliation: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA. caz@tulane.edu
authors.forename: Caz M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D025041:Animal Migration; D000818:Animals; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics
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