Stability in an age-structured metapopulation model.
We present a discrete model for a metapopulation of a single species with overlapping generations. Based on the dynamical behavior of the system in absence of dispersal, we have shown that a migration mechanism which depends only on age can not stabilize a previously unstable homogeneous equilibrium, but can drive a stable uncoupled system to instability if the migration rules are strongly related to age structure.
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