Talk:Metapopulation

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Citation for population of populations?

In the intro:

"In Levins' own words, it consists of "a population of populations".[1]"

I'm not finding mention either of the term metapopulation or the text "population of populations" in the cited article. Was another article meant to be cited? X14n (talk) 06:15, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have found another source ("Nicholas J Gotelli (2008) A primer of Ecology (Fourth Edition)") that claims that attributes the quote to (and claims "metapopulation" was coined) here:

Levins, R. (1970). Extinction. In M. Gerstenhaber (Ed.), Some mathematical questions in biology (pp. 75–107). Lecture Notes on Mathematics in the Life Sciences. The American Mathematical Society.

I cannot access the Levins source, so I cannot check this myself, unfortunately.

Additionally, it seems like "The Levins model" section it is calling the parameter "extinction probability" "dte", when I believe it means "e". I may be misunderstanding this. Danicoe (talk) 18:10, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]