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  title info:
    title: Spatial heterogeneity and the importance of patchiness in marine metapopulations
    sub title: an analysis of coupled discrete logistic equations
  name:
    name part: Rank, Jeffery Aaron.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: vii, 67 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Population dynamics models have traditionally been applied to oceanography primarily for the assessment of macrofauna stocks, and occasionally for prediction of plankton blooms. As the questions associated with global warming loom ever larger, the latter application will grow increasingly important in light of the large potential CO₂ sink via photosynthesis in phytoplankton. Discrete time logistic population models can be coupled to represent metapopulations of plankton. Such coupling is explicitly shown to be fundamentally important to the results of the model for even infinitesimal coupling parameters. Furthermore, the qualitative behavior of the metapopulation model is sensitively dependent on the details of the coupling. This implies that mistreatment of a metapopulation by application of an inappropriate uncoupled discrete logistic model, or even the wrong set of coupled equations, may result in significant error in prediction of that population's evolution and subsequent effect on the environment.
  note: by Jeffery Aaron Rank.
  note: "Major subject: Oceanography".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-61).
  subject:
    topic: Major oceanography
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2001-THESIS-R38
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2001-THESIS-R38
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 020612
    record change date: 20220103134508.0
    record identifier: in00001696400