Limited evidence for the demographic Allee effect from numerous species across taxa

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2151-2161

  Gregory, Stephen D ^a   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^b,c   Brook, Barry W ^b   Courchamp, Franck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion (aic); Bayesian information criterion (bic); Demographic allee effect; Empirical support; Evidence; Exponential; Population dynamics; Random; Ricker; Walk

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ALLEE EFFECT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION GROWTH; RANDOM WALK METHOD; TIME SERIES;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; TIME;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953996975     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1128.1     Document Type: Article

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