Invasional 'meltdown' on an oceanic island

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 812-817

  O'Dowd, Dennis J ^a   Green, Peter T ^a,b   Lake, P S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anoplolepis gracilipes; Ants; Biological invasion; Indirect effects; Islands; Land crab; Mutualism; Rain forest; Scale insects; Seedlings

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ISLAND; RAINFOREST;

ANOPLOLEPIS GRACILIPES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FORMICIDAE; GECARCINIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; PARATRECHINA LONGICORNIS;

EID: 0041784540     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00512.x     Document Type: Article

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