Table 1.

Summary of temporal statistics for wetlandscape normalized area, A*(t), and mean nearest neighbour separation distances, NND(t), and correlations with metapopulation. Correlation coefficients of the aforementioned variable with metapopulation capacity, λ_max(t) and average occupancy, Ω(t).

	μ ± σ(A*)	CV(A*)	${\rho }_{A^{\ast },{\lambda }_{\max }}$	ρA*,Ω	μ ± σ(NND)	CV(NND)	${\rho }_{NND,{\lambda }_{\max }}$	ρNND,Ω
N. Dakota	0.44 ± 0.09	0.21	0.96	0.92	85 ± 10 m	0.11	−0.82	−0.83
Texas	0.56 ± 0.12	0.22	0.87	0.84	450 ± 24 m	0.05	−0.83	−0.82