Rainfall facilitates the spread, and time alters the impact, of the invasive Argentine ant

Oecologia

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 385-395

  Heller, Nicole E ^a,c   Sanders, Nathan J ^b   Shors, Jessica Wade ^a   Gordon, Deborah M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o; Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve; Linepithema humile; Long term; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EL NINO; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL; RANGE EXPANSION; SEASONALITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

EID: 39249084321     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0911-z     Document Type: Article

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