Nuggets of Information (Part One)

What is Spatial Synchrony?
Correlated fluctuations in discrete populations over localized or wide-scaled geographical area (Peltenon et al. 2002)

What is an example of regional stochasticity?
Climate, many of the climate variables are correlated over wide-scaled geographic area.

What is the Moran Effect?
Proposed by Patt Moran (1917- 1988), the Moran Theorem or the Moran Effect describe that the time correlation between two populations of the same species is equal to the correlation between the environmental variabilities. Or as described in the Peltenon et al. paper that two discrete populations with identical density-independent affects will be synchronized if they are affected by the same density-independent regional effects (such as weather).






How does dispersal affect spatial synchrony?
Dispersal links two locally regulating separate populations.