Asymmetric migration decreases stability but increases resilience in a heterogeneous metapopulation

Asymmetrical movement among patches could affect the stability of ecological metapopulations, but this is difficult to test empirically. Here, Limdi et al. use experimental yeast metapopulations to show that asymmetric migration decreases stability but increases resilience to transient shocks.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anurag Limdi, Alfonso Pérez-Escudero, Aming Li, Jeff Gore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05424-w