POPULATION-DYNAMICS IN 2-PATCH ENVIRONMENTS - SOME ANOMALOUS CONSEQUENCES OF AN OPTIMAL HABITAT DISTRIBUTION
POPULATION-DYNAMICS IN 2-PATCH ENVIRONMENTS - SOME ANOMALOUS CONSEQUENCES OF AN OPTIMAL HABITAT DISTRIBUTION
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DOI:
10.1016/0040-5809(85)90027-9
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
HOLT, RD
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作者:
HOLT, RD
The effect of dispersal on population size and stability is explored for a population that disperses passively between two discrete habitat patches. Two basic models are considered. In the first model, a single population experiences density-dependent growth in both patches. A graphical construction is presented which allows one to determine the spatial pattern of abundance at equilibrium for most reasonable growth models and rates of dispersal. It is shown under rather general conditions that this equilibrium is unique and globally stable. In the second model, the dispersing population is a food-limited predator that occurs in both a source habitat (which contains a prey population) and a sink habitat (which does not) Passive dispersal between source and sink habitats can stabilize an otherwise unstable predator-prey interaction. The conditions allowing this are explored in some detail. The theory of optimal habitat selection predicts the evolutionarily stale distribution of a population, given that individuals can freely move among habitats so as to maximize individual fitness. This theory is used to develop a heuristic argument for why passive dispersal should always be selectively disadvantageous (ignoring kin effects) in a spatially heterogeneous but temporally constant environment. For both the models considered here, passive dispersal may lead to a greater number of individuals in both habitats combined than if there were no dispersal. This implies that the evolution of an optimal habitat distribution may lead to a reduction in population size; in the case of the predator-prey model, it may have the additional effect of destabilizing the interaction. The paper concludes with a discussion of the disparate effects habitat selection might have on the geographical range occupied by a species.