Factors influencing the chance of population establishment: Implications for release strategies in biocontrol

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1439-1447

  Grevstad, Fritzi S ^a,b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Biological control introductions; Colonization; Colony size; Demographic stochasticity; Environmental variability; Optimum release size; Population establishment; Release strategy; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESS;

EID: 0032748242     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[1439:FITCOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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