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Landscape Connectivity

Linking Fine-Scale Movements and Large-Scale Patterns of Distributions of Damselflies

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At least since Andrewartha and Birch (1954) ecologists have recognized that movement plays a crucial role in the dynamics of many populations. Movement is critical at an individual level in allowing animals to access heterogeneously distributed resources. At a population level, it is necessary for the establishment and re-establishment of local populations. Much of the development of our current conceptual framework of both metapopulation dynamics (Hanski, 1996) and the dynamics of other types of spatially-structured populations (Harrison, 1994) stems from this increased understanding of the importance of movement in animal population dynamics. At the same time, there has been an increasing recognition that scales of observation, experimentation and process are vital to understanding ecological principles and processes (Levin, 1992). As a result of that recognition, considerable effort has been expended conceptualizing and developing ideas about the process of movement and how it varies with scale. Unfortunately, empirical explorations of its importance to populations, and its relative importance at different spatial scales, have not kept pace with these theoretical studies.

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  1. Atlantic Cooperative Wildlife Ecology Research Network. Department of Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada

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  2. Office of Agricultural Entomology, University of Illinois, 134 Envir. Ag. Sci., MC-637, 1101 W. Peabody Drive, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA

    Michael E. Irwin

  3. INRA Lab Zoologie, BP 29, 35650, Le Rheu Cedex, France

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Taylor, P.D. (2000). Landscape Connectivity. In: Ekbom, B., Irwin, M.E., Robert, Y. (eds) Interchanges of Insects between Agricultural and Surrounding Landscapes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1913-1_7

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