Worldwide ant invasions under climate change

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 117-128

  Bertelsmeier, Cleo ^a   Luque, Gloria M ^a   Hoffmann, Benjamin D ^b   Courchamp, Franck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Climate change; Consensus model; Invasive ants; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ANALYSIS; DISTURBANCE; INVASIVE SPECIES;

AFRICA; ASIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

FORMICIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84920853530     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0794-3     Document Type: Article

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