Living in a Patchy Environment

Introduction: Patchy environment - an overview ; 1. Starvation and predation in a patchy environment ; 2. The response of plants to patchy environments ; 3. Dynamic stability of a single-species population in a divided and ephemeral environment ; 4. Variance and patchiness in rates of population change - a planthopper's case history ; 5. Coexistence in a patchy environment ; 6. Population dynamics and community structure of parasitic helminths ; 7. Dung and carrion insects ; 8. Patchiness and community structure ; 9. Extinction of finite metapopulations in correlated environments ; 10. Conservation in a variable environment - the optimal size of reserves ; 11. Does interdemic group selection occur in commensal house mice (Mus domesticus)? ; 12. Sex determination and sex ratios in patchy environments