Imprinting

Imprinting, in psychobiology, a form of learning in which a very young animal fixes its attention on the first object with which it has visual,  auditory, or tactile experience and there after follows that object

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Metapopulations

Separate Populations That Mutually Affect One Another via Dispersal Fragmented landscapes create fragmented populations, many of which may exchange individuals via migration, creating one linked population

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If individuals in one patch go extinct, other individuals in other patches survive, and they supply individuals

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The proportion of occupied patches will stabilize over time to 1− (x/m) x is the extinction rate of populations in patches per unit time m is the rate of movement between patches

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Different kinds of metapopulations

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