Social 'meltdown' in the demise of an island endemic: Allee effects and the Vancouver Island marmot

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 965-973

  Brashares, Justin S ^a   Werner, Jeffery R ^b   Sinclair, A R E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inverse density dependence; Mate searching; Movement analysis; Population dynamics; Predator avoidance; Threshold effects

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ALLEE EFFECT; AVOIDANCE REACTION; COLONY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION; FITNESS; HIBERNATION; HOME RANGE; ISLAND; MATE LOCATION; MOVEMENT; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; THRESHOLD; WILD POPULATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CANADA; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRITISH COLUMBIA; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MARMOTA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 79952010894     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01711.x     Document Type: Article

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