Invasive Argentine ants reduce fitness of red maple via a mutualism with an endemic coccid

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2051-2057

  Brightwell, Robert John ^a   Silverman, Jules ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coccidae; Host fitness; Invasion; Linepithema humile; Mesolecanium nigrofasciatum; Mutualism

Indexed keywords

ANT; CARBOHYDRATE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FITNESS; INVASIVE SPECIES; MUTUALISM; NATURAL ENEMY;

ACER RUBRUM; COCCIDAE; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; HEMIPTERA; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE; MESOLECANIUM NIGROFASCIATUM;

EID: 77953958254     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9607-0     Document Type: Article

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