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

A Next-Generation Approach to Calculate Source-Sink Dynamics in Marine Metapopulations.
Bull Math Biol. 2020 Jan 14;82(1):9
Authors: Harrington PD, Lewis MA
Abstract
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.
PMID: 31932972 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology - January 13, 2020 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Harrington PD, Lewis MA Tags: Bull Math Biol Source Type: research