Extreme life history plasticity and the evolution of invasive characteristics in a native ant

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3343-3349

  Buczkowski, Grzegorz ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biotic homogenization; Invasive ants; Odorous house ant; Polydomy; Polygyny; Supercolony; Tapinoma sessile; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOMOGENEITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATIVE SPECIES; NEST; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYGYNY; URBANIZATION;

FORMICIDAE; TAPINOMA SESSILE;

EID: 77955775587     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9727-6     Document Type: Article

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