Proceedings: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 461, No. 2060 (Aug., 2005), pp. 2545-2562 (18 pages) The work presented here shows that the natural frequencies of constrained ...

The incidence function model (IFM) is a spatially realistic metapopulation model, in which extinction and colonisation probabilities are estimated from empirical data. We tested whether an IFM can be ...