More importantly, high harvests are produced for a larger set of reserve configurations for adult movement than larval dispersal, though at greater overall fraction of habitat in reserves.
Persistence occurs for fewer reserve configurations when larval dispersal and adult movement are combined (but each having a smaller spatial scale) than for exclusively one or the other process (Figures 8), rather than being intermediate between results for larval and adult cases, as might have been expected.
There are somewhat more reserve configurations leading to persistence for the harvest-first species than for the two other species (Figures 3b and e), and slightly fewer for the spawn-first species than for the two other species (Figures 3c and f).
Parallel-serial configurations as well as the newly proposed reserve capacity configurations are examined.
We identify reserve site configurations that provide the highest persistence values for each of the metapopulation connectivity models.
To determine reserve site configurations that provide highest persistence values with respect to their connectivity characteristics, we model nine connectivity topological models derived from graph theory in a demographic metapopulation model.
Non-uniform harvest effort in response to expected harvests at each location reduces the set of reserve network configurations that produce persistent populations for both the case of exclusive larval dispersal and that of exclusive adult movement in a home range (Figures 5c d).
As a rule of notation, we reserve subscripts for internal configuration parameters (replication degree, intrusion threshold, rejuvenation parameters) and superscripts for external parameters (attack intensity and type).
This study assesses the effects of considering within-site habitat configuration when designing reserve networks.
In such a configuration, the cheapest reserve in the multi-area system will be selected.
The gadget is being crowdfunded on Kickstarter right now (and has already blown past its $30,000 goal in just a few days), offering up a maximum of 15,000 mAh in reserve power, depending on the configuration you choose.
