Allee effects driven by predation

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 801-810

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

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregative response; Critical thresholds; Functional response; Local extinction; Non linear dynamics; Positive density dependence

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; PREDATION;

SIGMOIDEA;

EID: 5344241281     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-8901.2004.00944.x     Document Type: Review

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