Experimental evidence that human impacts drive fire ant invasions and ecological change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 20339-20343

  King, Joshua R ^a,b   Tschinke, Walter R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community organization; Competition; Disturbance; Exotic species; Pest management

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; EXOTIC SPECIES; FOREST; HABITAT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PLOWING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; SPECIES INVASION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

FORMICIDAE; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 58149520081     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809423105     Document Type: Article

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