Detrimental effects of highly efficient interference competition: Invasive Argentine ants outcompete native ants at toxic baits

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 741-747

  Buczkowski, Grzegorz ^a   Bennett, Gary W ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentine ant; Competition; Linepithema humile; Odorous house ant; Tapinoma sessile

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ANT; BAIT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; INSECTICIDES;

FORMICIDAE; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE; TAPINOMA SESSILE;

EID: 46849118064     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[741:DEOHEI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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