Is metapopulation patch occupancy in nature well predicted by the Levins model?

When Local Extinction and Colonization of River Fishes Can Be Predicted by Regional Occupancy: the Role of Spatial Scales

(2013) Benjamin Bergerot et al.   PLoS One

Persistence and management of spatially distributed populations

(2013) Alan Hastings   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Bayesian state-space modeling of metapopulation dynamics in the Glanville fritillary butterfly

(2011) Philip J. Harrison et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Metapopulation structure and dynamics of an endangered butterfly

(2010) Margaret S. Guiney et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Support for a metapopulation structure among mammals

(2009) PIETER I. OLIVIER et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Allee threshold and extinction threshold for spatially explicit metapopulation dynamics with Allee effects

(2009) Kazunori Sato   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation

(2009) Mikko Kuussaari et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Generalizing Levins metapopulation model in explicit space: Models of intermediate complexity

(2008) Manojit Roy et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY