Where do adaptive shifts occur during invasion? A multidisciplinary approach to unravelling cold adaptation in a tropical ant species invading the Mediterranean area

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1266-1275

  Rey, Olivier ^a   Estoup, Arnaud ^a   Vonshak, Merav ^b   Loiseau, Anne ^a   Blanchet, Simon ^c,d   Calcaterra, Luis ^e   Chifflet, Lucila ^a   Rossi, Jean Pierre ^a   Kergoat, Gaël J ^a   Foucaud, Julien ^a   Orivel, Jérôme ^d,f   Leponce, Maurice ^g   Schultz, Ted ^h   Facon, Benoit ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^d École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^e U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^h DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Biological invasion; Climatic niche shift; Cold temperature; Mediterranean zone; Wasmannia auropunctata

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLD TOLERANCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INVASIVENESS; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; COLD; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLD TEMPERATURE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ISRAEL;

WASMANNIA AUROPUNCTATA;

EID: 84867098556     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01849.x     Document Type: Article

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