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Habitat-Quality Effects on Metapopulation Dynamics in Greater White-Toothed Shrews, Crocidura Russula
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Journal Article
Habitat-Quality Effects on Metapopulation Dynamics in Greater White-Toothed Shrews, Crocidura Russula
2008
Overview
The effects of patch size and isolation on metapopulation dynamics have received wide empirical support and theoretical formalization. By contrast, the effects of patch quality seem largely underinvestigated, partly due to technical difficulties in properly assessing quality. Here we combine habitat-quality modeling with four years of demographic monitoring in a metapopulation of greater white-toothed shrews (Crocidura russula) to investigate the role of patch quality on metapopulation processes. Together, local patch quality and connectivity significantly enhanced local population sizes and occupancy rates (R2 = 14% and 19%, respectively). Accounting for the quality of patches connected to the focal one and acting as potential sources improved slightly the model explanatory power for local population sizes, pointing to significant source—sink dynamics. Local habitat quality, in interaction with connectivity, also increased colonization rate (R2 = 28%), suggesting the ability of immigrants to target high-quality patches. Overall, patterns were best explained when assuming a mean dispersal distance of 800 m, a realistic value for the species under study. Our results thus provide evidence that patch quality, in interaction with connectivity, may affect major demographic processes.
Publisher
Ecological Society of America
Subject
/ Animal, plant and microbial ecology
/ Animals
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ ecological-niche factor analysis (ENFA)
/ Factor Analysis, Statistical
/ Female
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ Habitats
/ Male
/ Mammalia
/ Population Surveillance - methods
/ Rodents
/ Shrews
