Individual mobility prevents an Allee effect in sparse populations of the bush cricket Metrioptera roeseli: An experimental study

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Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 449-457

  Kindvall, Oskar ^a   Vessby, Karolina ^a   Berggren, Åsa ^a   Hartman, Göran ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BUSH CRICKET; MOBILITY; POPULATION DENSITY;

METRIOPTERA ROESELI; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 0031921430     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546766     Document Type: Article

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