Allee effects in marine systems

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 269, Issue , 2004, Pages 49-59

  Gascoigne, Joanna ^a,b   Lipcius, Romuald N ^b  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Depensation; Inverse density dependence; Positive density dependence

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 1942541504     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps269049     Document Type: Review

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