ABSTRACT
The Physical Setting for Demographic and Genetic Processes: How Populations are Organized on the Landscape ..............................................150 Drift and Inbreeding ..............................................................................................156 Extinction-Recolonization Dynamics and Local Adaptation ...............................158 Conservation Implications .....................................................................................161 Acknowledgments..................................................................................................163 References..............................................................................................................163
Population persistence requires a favorable balance between recruitment and loss of individuals over time. Persistence is driven by population size, local population dynamics, metapopulation dynamics (i.e., local extinctions, colonization, and dispersal), and stochastic events (Vandermeer
