Neutral hybridization can overcome a strong Allee effect by improving pollination quality

Juliette Bouhours; Mohsen B Mesgaran; Roger D Cousens; Mark A Lewis

Journal article

Neutral hybridization can overcome a strong Allee effect by improving pollination quality

Juliette Bouhours, Mohsen B Mesgaran, Roger D Cousens, Mark A Lewis

Theoretical Ecology | SPRINGER HEIDELBERG | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1007/s12080-017-0333-4

University of Melbourne Researchers

Roger Cousens Author Biosciences

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council Discovery Grant

Funding Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge funding for this project from Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP140100608 to RDC and MAL. JB was funded by a PIMS Post-doctoral Fellowship and the University of Alberta. MAL gratefully acknowledges additional funding from the Natural Sciences Research Council of Canada and the Canada Research Chairs programme. We thank colleagues in the Lewis Lab for helpful feedback and suggestions on the research.