Effect of propagule pressure on the establishment and spread of the little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata in a Gabonese oilfield

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 301-306

  Mikheyev, Alexander S ^a   Tchingnoumba, Landry ^b   Henderson, Ann ^c,d   Alonso, Alfonso ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b National Zoological Park   (Gabon)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Gabon Biodiversity Program   (Gabon)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Clonality; Invasive species; Petroleum extraction; Rain forest; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; INVASIVE SPECIES; OIL FIELD; POISSON RATIO; PROPAGULE; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; GABON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

FORMICIDAE; WASMANNIA AUROPUNCTATA;

EID: 38849176936     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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