acrylic on canvas
60cm x 60cm
Iain White, 2009
Other Species exhibit 'patchy populations' where patch fragmentation occurs within the area covered by the population. Such species tend to be good at dispersal between habitat patches, so that the local populations operate demographically as a single unit and are therefore unlikely to undergo cycles of extinction and recolonisation.
It may be that populations of bird species in woodlands fragmented across lowland agricultural landscapes form metapopulations of this kind. The high dispersal ability of most bird species may mean that they treat woodland parcels as favourable patches bewteen which they move freely. In this cae habitat fragmentation is at a relatively fine scale relative to the dispersal range of the birds
