Ilkka Aulis HanskiForMemRS[1] (14 February 1953 – 10 May 2016) was a Finnish ecologist at the University of Helsinki, Finland.[3][4] The Metapopulation Research Center led by Hanski, until his death,[5] has been nominated as a Center of Excellence by the Academy of Finland. The group studies species living in fragmented landscapes and attempts to advance metapopulation ecology research.[6][7][8][9][10] Hanski proposed the core-satellite hypothesis of species distributions. Metapopulation ecology itself studies populations of plants and animals which are separated in space by occupying patches.[11]
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^Hanski, Ilkka (1999). Metapopulation ecology. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN0-19-854065-5.
^Hanski, I. (1991). "Single-species metapopulation dynamics: Concepts, models and observations". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 42 (1–2): 17–38. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1991.tb00549.x.