Allee effects and conspecific cueing jointly lead to conspecific attraction

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-43

  Donahue, Megan J ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness trade offs; Gregarious settlement; Habitat quality; Habitat selection; Petrolisthes cinctipes

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; CONSPECIFIC; CRAB; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HABITAT SELECTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY; MATE ATTRACTION; SIGNAL; SIMULATION;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRACHYURA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRACHYURA; CALIFORNIA; CUES; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANOMURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PETROLISTHES CINCTIPES; PORCELLANIDAE;

EID: 33748552336     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0419-y     Document Type: Article

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