Metapopulation Ecology and Evolution
a short (1 credit) course
at the Eötvös University, Budapest
September 2001
(lectures in Hungarian)
Place: Department of
Genetics
Time: 7x2 hours, 13-14 and
17-21 September, 16:15-18:00
Literature used
Program: I. Metapopulation ecology Presence
or absence: The Levins metapopulation model II. Metapopulation evolution Evolutionarily
stable strategies and polymorphisms III. Metapopulations and
conservation biology: An outlook
Spatial structure and the incidence function model
When is a metapopulation viable?
Granville fritillary, the best known metapopulation
Dynamics of coupled populations: Source-sink systems, stability and chaos
Structured metapopulations: Alternative equilibria and the rescue effect
Generalists and specialists; adaptive plasticity
Risk spreading and the evolution of dispersal. Dispersal polymorphisms
Density-dependent dispersal
Dispersal in stable environments: Kin competition
Coevolutionary patterns. Dispersal and dormancy as alternative means for
risk spreading. Dispersal and life history evolution: On colonizer syndromes.
Dispersal versus local adaptation