Warder Clyde Allee 1422997 219163747 2008-06-13T21:27:46Z 92.227.38.83 {{expand|date=March 2008}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Dr. Warder Clyde Allee |image = replace this image male.svg |image_size = 150px |birth_date = [[June 5]], [[1885]] |birth_place = |nationality = [[United States]] |field = Zoology |work_institutions = [[University of Florida]] |alma_mater = [[University of Chicago]]<br>[[University of Illinois]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = His research on [[ethology|animal behavior]], [[protocooperation]], and for identifying the [[Allee effect]] |prizes = }} '''Warder Clyde Allee''' ([[June 5]], [[1885]]&ndash;[[March 18]], [[1955]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[Zoology|zoologist]] and [[Ecology|ecologist]] who taught animal ecology. He is best known for his research on [[ethology|animal behavior]], [[protocooperation]], and for identifying the [[Allee effect]]. Allee was born in [[Bloomingdale, Indiana]]. He studied at the [[University of Chicago]], where he received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1912. He then went to the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]] before becoming an 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. Allee died in [[Gainesville, Florida]], aged 69. ==See also== *[[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). ''[http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=chla;idno=3110087 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== {{wikiquote}} * [http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/ALLE1885.htm Biographical sketch] * [http://maps.uchicago.edu/northwest/allee.html WC Allee Laboratory of Animal Behavior] Biopsychological Research Building at the University of Chicago {{DEFAULTSORT:Allee, W. C.}} [[Category:1885 births]] [[Category:1955 deaths]] [[Category:University of Florida faculty]] [[Category:American ecologists]] [[Category:American scientists]] [[Category:American zoologists]] [[Category:Ethologists]] [[Category:People from Chicago, Illinois]] [[Category:People from Gainesville, Florida]] [[Category:People from Indiana]] [[Category:University of Chicago faculty]] [[Category:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni]] [[Category:University of Oklahoma faculty]] [[de:Warder Clyde Allee]] [[fr:Warder Clyde Allee]] [[zh:??·???·??]]