A new (Old), invasive ant in the hardwood forests of eastern North America and its potentially widespread impacts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Guénard, Benoit ^a   Dunn, Robert R ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PACHYCONDYLA CHINENSIS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVASION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; TREE;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; PACHYCONDYLA CHINENSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; NORTH AMERICA; TREES;

EID: 77955370644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011614     Document Type: Article

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