Can a mate-finding Allee effect be elicited to help eradicate invasive mammals?

The Allee effect is an important ecological process that has implications for extinction of endangered species and for assisting the management of invasive species. Few instances of Allee effects have been quantified in nature due to the adaptive resilience of species and the difficulty in empirically linking ecological mechanisms to population change. We developed an individual-based simulation model to mechanistically explore whether a management intervention could elicit a mate-finding Allee effect to assist the eradication of an invasive mammal. This repository holds the data and Python computer code to run the model. There are also two movies illustrating the individual-based model with and without an elicited Allee effect.