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Persistence, extinction, and critical patch number for island populations. (English) Zbl 0603.92019

Sufficient conditions are derived for persistence and extinction of a population inhabiting several islands. Discrete reaction-diffusion population models are analyzed which describe growth and diffusion of a population on a group of islands or a patch environment.
A critical patch number is defined as the number of islands below which the population goes extinct on that group of islands. It is shown that population persistence on one island leads to population persistence for the entire archipelago. Both single-species and multi-species models are discussed.

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92D40 Ecology
39A12 Discrete version of topics in analysis
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