植物生态学报 ›› 2000, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (1): 123-126.

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Metapopulation(复合种群)究竟是什么?

邬建国   

  • 出版日期:2000-01-10 发布日期:2000-01-10
  • 通讯作者: 邬建国

What is Metapopulation,Really?

WU Jian-Guo   

  • Online:2000-01-10 Published:2000-01-10
  • Contact: WU Jian-Guo

摘要: Metapopulation是种群生态学、景观生态学和保护生物学诸领域中的一个重要概念。近年来,有关metapulation的中文文章频繁地出现在生态学杂志和书籍中。这一现象很好地反映了国内外华人生态学者对有关metapopulation的问题愈来愈感兴趣,但对同一英文词出现的多种中文译法不免给读者造成了一些概念上的混乱,同时似乎也反映了作者们对metapopulation这一概念在理解上的差异。因此,本文拟对metapopulation及其有关概念的涵义和发展加以讨论,并对现有的几种译文的确切性作一分析,以与生态学同行商榷。

关键词: 复合种群, 缀块, 复合种群类型

Abstract: Metapopulation is an important concept in several ecological fields, including population ecology, landscape ecology, and conservation biology. Recently, the term, metapopulation, has increasingly appeared in Chinese journal papers and book chapters in ecology. However, the multiple and distinctive Chinese translations of the term have inevitably caused confusion, and also seem to reflect differences in the understanding of the term, metapopulation, by the authors. Thus, this paper examines the definition of metapopulation and its evolution, and then discusses the appropriateness of the different Chinese translations.

Key words: Metapopulation, Patch, Metapopulation types