Trophic ecology of the invasive argentine ant: Spatio-temporal variation in resource assimilation and isotopic enrichment

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 763-771

  Menke, Sean B ^a,c   Suarez, Andy V ^b   Tillberg, Chadwick V ^d   Chou, Cheng T ^a   Holway, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LINFIELD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentine ant; Biological invasion; Solenopsis xyloni; Stable isotope; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ANT; APHID; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; FOOD WEB; HONEYDEW; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; FORMICIDAE; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE; SOLENOPSIS XYLONI;

EID: 77957984409     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1694-1     Document Type: Article

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