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Networks in metapopulation dynamics

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The behavior of spatially inhomogeneous populations in networks of habitats provides examples of dynamical systems on random graphs with structure. A particular example is a butterfly species inhabiting the Åland archipelago. A metapopulation description of the patch occupancies is here mapped to a quenched graph, using the empirical ecology-based incidence function description as a starting point. Such graphs are shown to have interesting features that both reflect the probably “self-organized” nature of a metapopulation that can survive and the geographical details of the landscape. Simulations of the Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible model, to mimick the time-dependent population dynamics relate to the graph features: lack of a typical scale, large connectivity per vertex, and the existence of independent subgraphs. Finally, ideas related to the application and extension of scale-free graphs to metapopulations are discussed.

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  1. Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, 02015, Espoo, Finland

    V. Vuorinen, M. Peltomäki & M. J. Alava

  2. Abteilung Theoretische Biologie, IZMB, Universität Bonn, 53012, Bonn, Germany

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Received: 8 December 2003, Published online: 14 May 2004

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87.23.Cc Population-dynamics and ecological pattern formation - 89.75.Hc Networks and genealogical trees - 89.75.Fb Structures and organization in complex systems

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Vuorinen, V., Peltomäki, M., Rost, M. et al. Networks in metapopulation dynamics. Eur. Phys. J. B 38, 261–268 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2004-00118-9

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