Where and how Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) spreads in Corsica?

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 332, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 747-751

  Blight, Olivier ^a   Orgeas, Jérôme ^a   Renucci, Marielle ^b   Tirard, Alain ^b   Provost, Erick ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Argentine ant; Corsica; Human mediated dispersal; Map

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE INDEX; ANT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; RANGE EXPANSION;

ANT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFESTATION; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE; NONHUMAN; SEASHORE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANTS; ARGENTINA; ECOLOGY; FRANCE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARGENTINA; CORSE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN EUROPE;

ARTHROPODA; DOLICHODERINAE; FORMICIDAE; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

EID: 67651037101     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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