Reproductive asynchrony in spatial population models: How mating behavior can modulate allee effects arising from isolation in both space and time

American Naturalist

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 362-373

  Fagan, William F ^a   Cosner, Chris ^b   Larsen, Elise A ^a   Calabrese, Justin M ^c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age dependent male reproductive success; Critical patch size; Demographically effective population density; Densitydependent mating success; Mate searching behavior; Two sex population model

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; ISOLATED POPULATION; MATE LOCATION; MATE RECOGNITION; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949513233     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/650373     Document Type: Article

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