Warder Clyde Allee
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|name = Dr. Warder Clyde Allee
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|birth_date = [[June 5]], [[1885]]
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|nationality = [[United States]]
|field = Zoology
|work_institutions = [[University of Florida]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Chicago]]<br>[[University of Illinois]]
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|known_for = His research on [[ethology|animal behavior]], [[protocooperation]], and for identifying the [[Allee effect]]
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'''Warder Clyde Allee''' ([[June 5]], [[1885]]–[[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==
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* [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
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