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A population that persists due to immigration despite high local extinction rates exemplifies:

“Core-satellite metapopulation” for a population that persists due to immigration despite high local extinction rates exemplifies. This relationship follows from the ecological mechanism represented by the terms in the item, not merely from an association between their names. At equilibrium, species identities can continue to turn over even when richness is approximately stable. The model predicts a balance of rates, not an absence of colonization or extinction. The remaining alternatives—“Classical metapopulation”, “Nonequilibrium metapopulation”, “Continuous population”—refer to different st

Ref: Campbell Biology, Urry et al., 12th Ed., Unit 8 Ecology