Single-species models of the Allee effect: Extinction boundaries, sex ratios and mate encounters

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 375-394

  Boukal, David S ^a,b   Berec, Luděk ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; EXTINCTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SEX RATIO;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; MATING; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SPECIES; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0036399391     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2002.3084     Document Type: Article

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