ArticleProceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2020
Unpacking the Allee effect: determining individual-level mechanisms that drive global population dynamics.
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- A Mathematical Perspective on the Influence of Allee Effects in Oncolytic Virotherapy.Mathematics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Pleiotropic regulation of bacterial toxin production and Allee effect govern microbial predator-prey interactions.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Demographic effects of aggregation in the presence of a component Allee effect.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Data driven model discovery and interpretation for CAR T-cell killing using sparse identification and latent variables.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
- Interpreting how nonlinear diffusion affects the fate of bistable populations using a discrete modelling framework.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2022Article
- Autocrine signaling can explain the emergence of Allee effects in cancer cell populations.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Avian Assemblages in Forest Fragments do not Sum to the Expected Regional Community in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.Zoological studies · 2022Article
- Population Dynamics with Threshold Effects Give Rise to a Diverse Family of Allee Effects.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2020Article
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Abstract
We present a solid theoretical foundation for interpreting the origin of Allee effects by providing the missing link in understanding how local individual-based mechanisms translate to global population dynamics. Allee effects were originally proposed to describe population dynamics that cannot be explained by exponential and logistic growth models. However, standard methods often calibrate Allee effect models to match observed global population dynamics without providing any mechanistic insight. By introducing a stochastic individual-based model, with proliferation, death and motility rates that depend on local density, we present a modelling framework that translates particular global Allee effects to specific individual-based mechanisms. Using data from ecology and cell biology, we unpack individual-level mechanisms implicit in an Allee effect model and provide simulation tools for others to repeat this analysis.
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