Synchrony's double edge: Transient dynamics and the Allee effect in stage structured populations

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 564-573

  Friedenberg, Nicholas A ^a   Powell, James A ^b   Ayres, Matthew P ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conspecific attraction; Dendroctonus frontalis; Ecophysiological model; Insect pest; Phenology; Positive density dependence; Seasonality; Species range

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BEETLE; CONSPECIFIC; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FITNESS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST RANGE; MORTALITY; NICHE; OVIPOSITION; PEST SPECIES; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; SEASONALITY; SYNCHRONY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEETLES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34249801261     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01048.x     Document Type: Article

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