(Redirected from W. C. Allee)'Warder Clyde Allee' (
June 5,
1885 -
March 18,
1955) was an
American zoologist and
ecologist who taught animal ecology at the
University of Chicago. He is best known for his research on
animal behavior,
protocooperation, and for identifying the
Allee effect.
Allee was born in
Bloomingdale, Indiana and died in
Gainesville, Florida. He started studying at the
University of Chicago, where he took his Ph.D. in
1912. Then he changed to the
University of Illinois, later became assistant professor at the
University of Oklahoma. In
1921 he returned to the University of Chicago, where he served as professor of zoology from
1928 to
1950. From 1950 to
1955 he taught at the
University of Florida.
The
Animal Behavior Society offers the ''W.C. Allee Award'' for the best presentation of an ethological work of research by a student in a juried competition held at their annual meeting.
See also
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Population density
Bibliography
★ Allee, W. C. (1931). ''Animal Aggregations. A study in General Sociology.'' University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-404-14501-9
★ Allee, W. C. (1949). ''
Principles of Animal Ecology''. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. ISBN 0-7216-1120-6
★ Alfred E. Emerson, Thomas Park: ''Warder Clyde Allee: Ecologist and Ethologist.''
Science vol. 121, No. 3150 (May 13, 1955) , p. 686-687 (obituary)
External links
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Biographical sketch
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WC Allee Laboratory of Animal Behavior Biopsychological Research Building at the University of Chicago