Warder Clyde Allee

Warder Clyde Allee ( born June 5, 1885 in Bloomingdale, Indiana, USA, † March 18, 1955 in Gainesville, Florida) was an American zoologist and ecologist.

Life

Allee studied at the University of Chicago, where he also received his doctorate in 1912. He then moved to the University of Illinois, and shortly thereafter as a research assistant at the University of Oklahoma. In 1921, he returned to Chicago, where he worked from 1928 to 1950 as a professor at the University of Chicago. From 1950 to 1955 he taught at the University of Florida.

He became famous for his studies on the biology of behavior Proto cooperation and for the Allee effect named after him, described as inverse density dependence in the death rate.

The U.S. Animal Behavior Society, who is also editor of the journal Animal Behaviour, gives at its annual meeting in each case the Warder Clyde Allee Award for best presentation of an behavioral biology research of a student.

Works

• Animal aggregation. A study in General Sociology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1931, ISBN 0404145019, full text
• Animal life and social growth. The Williams & Wilkins Company and Associates in cooperation with the Century of Progress Exposition, Baltimore, 1932, doi: . 10.5962/bhl.title.7432, full text
• Principles of Animal Ecology. WB Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1949, ISBN 0721611206, full text