métapopulation

CONT: L'étude de démographie des métapopulations a été entendue plus haut comme une recherche sur la stratégie de croissance d'une espèce.

OBS: It seems desirable to retain the word population for collections of genetically distinct organisms and to coin a modified term for aggregations of parts that comprise, or are derived from, a single genetic individual. The term metapopulation is suggested ... in the context of this review it is used to imply the shared elements that make up the morphological structure of a genetic individual, by whatever means these elements are defined.