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How the Allee Effect hurts endangered populations | Mongabay Explains

We know that overcrowding is bad. When there are too many individuals of a population in an area, they start competing for limited resources like food, space and water. Without enough resources to go around, individuals can starve or produce fewer babies, slowing the pace at which the population was growing. But when a population becomes too small and sparse, like in the case of the Sumatran rhino, that can endanger a species too by making it less successful in reproducing or surviving and slowing down its growth. This phenomenon is called the Allee Effect. And it can trigger extinctions. Read more: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/sum... #mongabay #soil #biodiversity #climatechange ---- Mongabay is a nonprofit environmental science and conservation news platform that produces original reporting in English, Indonesian, Spanish, French, Hindi, and Brazilian Portuguese. Check out https://www.mongabay.com/. Watch more of our videos:    / mongabaytv   Subscribe to Mongabay’s newsletter: https://mongabay.us14.list-manage.com... Follow Mongabay on Facebook:   / mongabay   Follow Mongabay on Twitter:   / mongabay   Follow Mongabay on Instagram:   / mongabay