Allee effects and extinction in a lattice model

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2007.07.006MaRDI QIDQ935962zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alastair Windus, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Publication date 12 August 2008

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0612005

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo simulationsExtinctionFluctuationsCritical population densityHabitat sizeMean field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: In the interest of conservation, the importance of having a large habitat available for a species is widely known. Here, we introduce a lattice-based model for a population and look at the importance of fluctuations as well as that of the population density, particularly with respect to Allee effects. We examine the model analytically and by Monte Carlo simulations and find that, while the size of the habitat is important, there exists a critical population density below which extinction is assured. This has large consequences with respect to conservation, especially in the design of habitats and for populations whose density has become small. In particular, we find that the probability of survival for small populations can be increased by a reduction in the size of the habitat and show that there exists an optimal size reduction.

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