The genetic Allee effect: a unified framework for the genetics and demography of small populations
Gloria M Lucque, Chloe Vayssade, Benoit Facon, Thomas Guillemaud, Franck Courchamp, Xavier Fauvergue
The paper defines the genetic Allee effect as a two-step process linking population size decline to genetic structure changes and reduced fitness, using examples from plants and animals.
bioRxiv · Jul 19, 2016Ecology