Geographical potential of Argentine ants (Linepithema humile Mayr) in the face of global climate change

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1557, 2004, Pages 2527-2535

  Roura Pascual, Nuria ^a   Suarez, Andrew V ^b   Gómez, Crisanto ^a   Pons, Pere ^a   Touyama, Yoshifumi ^c   Wild, Alexander L ^d   Peterson, A Townsend ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Ecological niche; GARP; Global climate change; Linepithema humile; World distributional prediction

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; RANGE EXPANSION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AFRICA; ANT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DATA BASE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE MAYR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES INVASION; TROPICS; WORLD DISTRIBUTION PREDICTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 17144417221     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2898     Document Type: Article

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