A Next-Generation Approach to Calculate Source–Sink Dynamics in Marine Metapopulations

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Peter D. Harrington
  • Mark A. Lewis

• In marine systems, adult populations confined to isolated habitat patches can be
  connected by larval dispersal. Source–sink theory provides effective tools to quantify
  the effect of specific habitat patches on the dynamics of connected populations.
  In this paper, we construct the next-generation matrix for a marine metapopulation
  and demonstrate how it can be used to calculate the source–sink dynamics of habitat
  patches. We investigate the effect of environmental variables on the source–sink
  dynamics and demonstrate how the next-generation matrix can provide useful biological
  insight into transient as well as asymptotic dynamics of the model.

• Date created

  2020-01-14

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Source–sink dynamics
  • Marine systems
  • Next-generation matrix
  • Metapopulation model

• Type of Item

  Article (Draft / Submitted)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-xe6z-a182

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International