Invasional meltdown: Invader-invader mutualism facilitates a secondary invasion

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1758-1768

  Green, Peter T ^a   O'Dowd, Dennis J ^b   Abbott, Kirsti L ^b   Jeffery, Mick ^c   Retallick, Kent ^c   Mac Nally, Ralph ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Christmas Island National Park   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anoplolepis gracilipes; Ant scale insect interactions; Biological invasions; Biotic resistance; Enemy free space; Giant African land snail (Achatina fulica); Indian Ocean); Interaction networks; Positive interactions; Propagule pressure; Rain forest (Christmas Island

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CRAB; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENEMY FREE SPACE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; PROBABILITY; PROPAGULE; RAINFOREST; RECOLONIZATION; SNAIL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; INSECT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MICRONESIA; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAILS;

CHRISTMAS ISLAND;

ACHATINA FULICA; ANOPLOLEPIS GRACILIPES; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; GECARCINIDAE; HEMIPTERA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 80051863550     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0050.1     Document Type: Article

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