Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in determining the pattern of spread in a global invader

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 220-225

  Roura Pascual, Núria ^a,b   Hui, Cang ^a   Ikeda, Takayoshi ^c   Leday, Gwénaël ^d   Richardson, David M ^a   Carpintero, Soledad ^e   Espadaler, Xavier ^f   Gómez, Crisanto ^b   Guénard, Benoit ^g   Hartley, Stephen ^h   Krushelnycky, Paul ⁱ   Lester, Philip J ^h   McGeoch, Melodie A ^j   Menke, Sean B ^k   Pedersen, Jes S ^l   Pitt, Joel P W ^m   Reyes, Joaquin ^e   Sanders, Nathan J ^l,n   Suarez, Andrew V ^o   Touyama, Yoshifumi ^p   Ward, Darren ^q   Ward, Philip S ^r   Worner, Sue P ^c   more..

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^j SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

^k LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^m HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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

^p Shichifuku Co Ltd   (Japan)

^q LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Formicidae; Geography; Human influence; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; HABITAT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES INVASION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CLIMATE; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORMICIDAE; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

EID: 78651084302     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011723108     Document Type: Article

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