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Effects of metapopulation processes on measures of genetic diversity.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Dec 2000
Pannell J R, Charlesworth B
Abstract excerpt
Many species persist as a metapopulation under a balance between the local extinction of subpopulations or demes and their recolonization through dispersal from occupied patches. Here we review the growing body of literature dealing with the genetic consequences of such population turnover. We focus our attention principally on theoretical studies of a classical metapopulation with a 'finite-island' model of...
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