... the Uni-versity of Central Florida in Orlando. “Land will be either protected or the future of the wildintroductionBut ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the ... and the rate of movement between the patches. Simply put, if the rate of movement between the patches counterbalances the rate of extinction within the patches, the metapopulation (the group of ... for,among other things, the natural history of the region, the amount of re-maining habitat and what size the pieces are, and the distribution of the species and communities, as well as gathering...