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SUBMITTER: Hanski I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5321745 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hanski Ilkka I Schulz Torsti T Wong Swee Chong SC Ahola Virpi V Ruokolainen Annukka A Ojanen Sami P SP
Nature communications 20170217
Ecologists are challenged to construct models of the biological consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation. Here, we use a metapopulation model to predict the distribution of the Glanville fritillary butterfly during 22 years across a large heterogeneous landscape with 4,415 small dry meadows. The majority (74%) of the 125 networks into which the meadows were clustered are below the extinction threshold for long-term persistence. Among the 33 networks above the threshold, spatial configurati ...[more]