Imported crazy ant displaces imported fire ant, reduces and homogenizes grassland ant and arthropod assemblages

Biological Invasions

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2429-2442

  LeBrun, Edward G ^a   Abbott, John ^a   Gilbert, Lawrence E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Hairy crazy ant; Invasive ants; Nylanderia sp. nr. pubens; Paratrechina fulva; Rasberry crazy ant; Tawny crazy ant; Tramp ants

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; ARTHROPOD; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GRASSLAND; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; SPECIES RICHNESS;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPODA; FORMICIDAE; PARATRECHINA FULVA; PARATRECHINA LONGICORNIS; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 84885676808     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0463-6     Document Type: Article

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