Warder Clyde Allee

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Dr. Warder Clyde Allee

Born	June 5, 1885
Nationality	United States
Fields	Zoology
Institutions	University of Florida
Alma mater	University of Chicago University of Illinois
Known for	His research on animal behavior, protocooperation, and for identifying the Allee effect

Warder Clyde Allee (June 5, 1885–March 18, 1955) was an American zoologist and ecologist who taught animal ecology. He is best known for his research on 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 Ph.D. in 1912. He then went to the 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.

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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). 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)