Exploiting Allee effects for managing biological invasions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 615-624

  Tobin, Patrick C ^a   Berec, Luděk ^b   Liebhold, Andrew M ^a  

^a NORTHERN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Allee dynamics; Biological invasions; Component Allee effect; Demographic Allee effect; Invasion ecology; Invasive species management; Non native species

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; PRIORITIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 79955969327     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01614.x     Document Type: Review

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