Ultimately, it depends on the organisms and the way they move and distribute themselves between habitat patches.

Many investigators stress the importance of habitat patches being closely spaced.

This led to the recommendation that habitat patches be within 230 feet (70 m) of each other.

Several studies have addressed the effect of the size of habitat patches on eastern towhees.

Hosts represent discrete habitat patches that can be occupied by parasites.

Elephant corridors are narrow strips of land that allow elephants to move from one habitat patch to another.

Rabbits require habitat patches of at least 12 acres to maintain a stable population.

In this system the population size within any given habitat patch was a function only of birth and death rates.

An ecosystem depends critically on the ability of individuals and populations to disperse from one habitat patch to another.

It is possible for the majority of the habitat patches to be empty.