Impact of an introduced ant on native rain forest invertebrates: Pheidole megacephala in monsoonal Australia

Oecologia

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 595-604

  Hoffmann, Benjamin D ^a,b   Andersen, Alan N ^b   Hill, Greg J E ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ants; Biodiversity; Competition; Invasion; Monsoonal Australia

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; PHEIDOLE MEGACEPHALA;

EID: 0032860051     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050895     Document Type: Article

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