A native ant armed to limit the spread of the Argentine ant

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3785-3793

  Blight, Olivier ^a   Provost, Erick ^a   Renucci, Marielle ^a   Tirard, Alain ^a   Orgeas, Jérôme ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bioassays; Competition; Invasion process; L. humile; Propagule; T. nigerrimum

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DOMINANCE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NATIVE SPECIES; PROPAGULE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

CORSE; FRANCE;

FORMICIDAE; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

EID: 77958007594     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9770-3     Document Type: Article

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