Dynamic expansion in recently introduced populations of fire ant parasitoids (Diptera: Phoridae)

Biological Invasions

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 989-999

  LeBrun, Edward G ^a   Plowes, Robert M ^a   Gilbert, Lawrence E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Invasive species; Long distance dispersal; Population spread; Pseudacteon tricuspis; Range expansion; Solenopsis invicta; Wind dispersal

Indexed keywords

EID: 83355169292     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-007-9177-y     Document Type: Article

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