Dangerously few liaisons: a review of mate-finding Allee effects

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The evidence for Allee effects (2009, methodology): “authors used a variety of terminology, all the mechanisms cited fit into eight broad categories (reviewed in Dennis 1989; Courchamp et al. 1999; Stephens and Sutherland 1999; Boukal and Berec 2002, unless otherwise cited): cooperative breeding, cooperative defense, cooperative feeding, dispersal (Ku”
A ‘Goldilocks’ hypothesis for dispersal of biological control agents (2011, background): “, negative fitness functions with decreasing conspecific densities) (Stephens et al. 1999; Liebhold and Tobin 2008; Gascoigne et al. 2009).”
Female mating failures in insects (2010, background): “Considering its limited empirical support, the mate encounter Allee effect should not be considered a principle of population ecology (Gascoigne et al., 2009), especially because several studies explicitly designed to detect its presence failed to do so (Kindvall et al., 1998; Fauvergue et al.,…”