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| Spacial structure | show 🗑
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| show | The range of abiotic conditions under which species can persist.
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| Realized niche | show 🗑
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| show | A measure of the total area covered by a population.
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| Ecological niche modeling | show 🗑
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| Ecological envelope | show 🗑
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| Endemic | show 🗑
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| show | Species with very large geographic ranges that can span several continents.
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| show | The total number of individuals in a population that exist within a defined area.
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| show | In a population, the number of individuals per unit area or volume.
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| Dispersion | show 🗑
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| show | A pattern of population dispersion in which individuals are aggregated in discrete groups.
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| show | A pattern of dispersion of a population in which each individual maintains a uniform distance between itself and its neighbors.
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| Random dispersion | show 🗑
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| Dispersal | show 🗑
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| show | Counting every individual in a population.
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| Survey | show 🗑
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| Area- and volume-based surveys | show 🗑
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| show | Surveys that count the number of individuals observed as one moves along a line.
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| Mark-recapture survey | show 🗑
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| show | The average distance an individual moves from where it was hatched or born to where it reproduces.
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| show | The absence of a population from suitable habitat because of barriers to dispersal.
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| Habitat corridor | show 🗑
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| show | When individuals distribute themselves among different habitats in a way that allows them to have the same per capita benefit.
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| Subpopulations | show 🗑
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| show | A population model that builds upon the basic metapopulation model and accounts for the fact that not all patches of suitable habitat are of equal quality.
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| show | In high-quality habitats, subpopulations that serve as a source of dispersers within a metapopulation.
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| show | A population model that considers both differences in the quality of the suitable patches and the quality of the surrounding matrix.
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