Joint effects of habitat heterogeneity and species' life-history traits on population dynamics in spatially structured landscapes.

ABSTRACT: Both habitat heterogeneity and species' life-history traits play important roles in driving population dynamics, yet there is little scientific consensus around the combined effect of these two factors on populations in complex landscapes. Using a spatially explicit agent-based model, we explored how interactions between habitat spatial structure (defined here as the scale of spatial autocorrelation in habitat quality) and species life-history strategies (defined here by species environmental tolerance and movement capacity) affect population dynamics in spatially heterogeneous landscapes. We compared the responses of four hypothetical species with different life-history traits to four landscape scenarios differing in the scale of spatial autocorrelation in habitat quality. The results sho

SUBMITTER: Ye X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4169469 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature