Establishing a beachhead: A stochastic population model with an Allee effect applied to species invasion

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 290-300

  Ackleh, Azmy S ^a   Allen, Linda J S ^b   Carter, Jacoby ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Invasive species; Probability of successful invasion; Spatially explicit stochastic model

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRTH RATE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MIGRATION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTICITY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TERRITORIALITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 34047113508     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.12.006     Document Type: Article

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