Roles of spatial partitioning, competition, and predation in the North American invasion of an exotic mosquito

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 601-611

  Freed, T Z ^a   Leisnham, P T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Invasive; Keystone predation; Patchy habitat; Patchy resources

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HABITAT TYPE; INVASIVE SPECIES; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MICROCOSM; MOSQUITO; PREDATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; OCHLEROTATUS JAPONICUS JAPONICUS; TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS;

AEDES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARVA; MOSQUITO; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; TREE; UNITED STATES;

AEDES; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CULICIDAE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARVA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TREES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901242735     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2909-7     Document Type: Article

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