Stabilizing biological populations and metapopulations through Adaptive Limiter Control

► Novel method for controlling the dynamics of populations/metapopulations. ► First control method empirically shown to work for a biological metapopulation. ► The method reduces both population fluctuations as well as extinction probability. ► Biologically realistic simulations indicate the results to be widely applicable. ► We provide empirical validation for various extant theoretical studies in this area.