A spatially explicit model for an Allee effect: Why wolves recolonize so slowly in Greater Yellowstone

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 244-254

  Hurford, Amy ^a   Hebblewhite, Mark ^a   Lewis, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Component Allee effect; Integrodifference equation; Pair formation; Spread rate; Wolf recolonization

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BREEDING POPULATION; CANID; MATE RECOGNITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; RECOLONIZATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRTH RATE; COURTSHIP; ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; WOLF;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BIRTH RATE; COURTSHIP; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTANA; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; WOLVES; WYOMING;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CANIDAE;

EID: 33749257693     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.06.009     Document Type: Article

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