Book ID: 93545
Courchamp, Franck, Ludek Berec and Joanna Gascoigne
Allee Effects in Ecology and Conservation. 2008. 76 line drawings. 20 halftones. 256 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
When a plant or animal become rare, individuals may suffer because of alack of others of the same species, decreasing the individual's sucess,and increasing the likelihood of extinction. This book provides aconcise and authoritative overview of the field, and collates and integrates a widely dispersed literature from various fields- marine andterrestrial, plant and animal, theoretical and empirical, academic and applied.