Competition for food between the exotic wasp Vespula germanica and the native ant assemblage of NW Patagonia: Evidence of biotic resistance?

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 625-631

  Masciocchi, Maité ^a   Farji Brener, Alejandro G ^a   Sackmann, Paula ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente Bariloche   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agonistic behavior; Biological invasions; Dorymyrmex tener; Yellowjackets

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD LIMITATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENERALIST; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PROTEIN; WASP;

PATAGONIA;

DORYMYRMEX TENER; FORMICIDAE; VESPIDAE; VESPULA GERMANICA;

EID: 77952876076     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9469-5     Document Type: Article

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