Time-lag in extinction dynamics in experimental populations: Evidence for a genetic Allee effect?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 621-631

  Vercken, Elodie ^a,b   Vincent, Flora ^a,b   Mailleret, Ludovic ^a,b,c   Ris, Nicolas ^a,b   Tabone, Elisabeth ^a,b   Fauvergue, Xavier ^a,b  

^a Institut Sophia Agrobiotech   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Extinction debt; Inbreeding depression; Inoculum size; Negative density dependence; Propagule size; Theta Ricker model; Trichogramma

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLEE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTINCTION RISK; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROPAGULE; WASP;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EXTINCTION DEBT; FEMALE; GENETICS; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; INOCULUM SIZE; MALE; NEGATIVE DENSITY DEPENDENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROPAGULE SIZE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICS; THETA-RICKER MODEL; TRICHOGRAMMA; WASP;

ADAPTATION; EXTINCTION DEBT; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; INOCULUM SIZE; NEGATIVE DENSITY DEPENDENCE; PROPAGULE SIZE; THETA-RICKER MODEL; TRICHOGRAMMA;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WASPS;

HYMENOPTERA; TRICHOGRAMMA;

EID: 84876341639     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12051     Document Type: Article

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