Concepts
6 concepts
metapopulation structure
The spatial arrangement and connectivity of subpopulations across a landscape that influences local population dynamics
stalk production
Production of extracellular polymeric stalk material by diatoms when photosynthetic rates exceed cellular growth rates
recruitment limitation
The hypothesis that relationships between egg and juvenile densities are linear when egg densities are constrained below values where eggs or hatching juveniles suffer density-dependent losses
size at maturity
Body size when organisms transition from growth to reproduction, with important consequences for lifetime reproductive success
ideal free distribution
Theory that animals distribute themselves among habitat patches in proportion to resource availability, with high-quality patches becoming occupied first and animals moving to lower-quality patches as...
source-sink dynamics
Some environments will be resource rich and produce a high amount of offspring (sources) while other environments will be resource low and produce a low amount of offspring (sinks)
