Revisiting the ants of melanesia and the taxon cycle: Historical and human-mediated invasions of a tropical archipelago

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Economo, Evan P ^a   Sarnat, Eli M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Fiji; Formicidae; Invasive species; Island biogeography; Pacific islands; Pheidole; Taxon cycle

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; MELANISM; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MELANESIA; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MELANESIA; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

FIJI;

EID: 84862134296     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/665996     Document Type: Article

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