An invasion revisited: The African big-headed ant (Pheidole megacephala) in northern Australia

Biological Invasions

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1171-1181

  Hoffmann, Benjamin D ^a   Parr, Catherine L ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Competition; Impacts; Invasives; Invertebrates; Rainforest

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA; PHEIDOLE MEGACEPHALA;

EID: 55149101015     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-007-9194-x     Document Type: Article

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