The Allee effect: Its history and future importance

Open Ecology Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 71-82

  Lidicker Jr , William Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti regulation; Conservation; Cooperation; Darwinian fitness; Demography; Density dependence; Extinction; Facilitation; Minimum threshold density; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960092846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874213001003010071     Document Type: Article

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