Warder Clyde Avenue
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 first studied at the University of Chicago , where he received his doctorate in 1912. He then moved to the University of Illinois and shortly afterwards as a research assistant at the University of Oklahoma . In 1921 he returned to Chicago , where he was a professor at the University of Chicago from 1928 to 1950. In 1950 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1951 to the National Academy of Sciences . From 1950 to 1955 he taught at the University of Florida .
He became known for his behavioral studies on protocooperation and for the Allee effect named after him , described as the inverse density dependence of the death rate .
The American Animal Behavior Society , which is also the publisher of the journal Animal Behavior , awards the Warder Clyde Allee Award at its annual meeting for the best presentation of behavioral research by a student.
Works
- Animal aggregations. 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
- with AE Emerson, Orlando Park, Thomas Park , KP Schmidt: Principles of Animal Ecology . WB Saunders Co., Philadelphia 1949, ISBN 0721611206 , full text
literature
- Alfred E. Emerson, Thomas Park: Warder Clyde Allee: Ecologist and Ethologist. In: Science . Volume 121, No. 3150, 1955, pp. 686–687, doi: 10.1126 / science.121.3150.686 (one obituary)
Web links
- Western Kentucky University: Biographical note (in English)
- Portrait photo
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SURNAME | Avenue, Warder Clyde |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Avenue, toilet |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American behaviorist and ecologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1885 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bloomingdale , Indiana |
DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1955 |
Place of death | Gainesville , Florida |