Mechanisms of interspecific competition among an invasive and two native fire ants

By Lloyd W. Morrison. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• Colonisation by a dominant ant facilitated by anthropogenic disturbance: effects on ant assemblage composition, biomass and resource use (2003, background): “Dominant roles are often assumed by successful invaders that out-compete native species (Morrison 2000).”
• Effects of colony-level variation on competitive ability in the invasive Argentine ant (2001, unknown): “Experimental tests, such as the one described here (also see Morrison 1999, 2000), promise to clarify the causes of the strong competitive asymmetries between invasive ants and the native species they displace.”
• The Roles of Competition and Disturbance in a Marine Invasion (2006, background): “Competitive interactions with native species influence the establishment and spread of invasive populations (e.g., Corbin and D’Antonio 2004) and are important mechanisms of invader impacts to native taxa (e.g., Morrison 2000; Brown et al. 2002; Branch and Steffani 2004).”
• Interference competition by Argentine ants displaces native ants: implications for biotic resistance to invasion (2006, background): “Similarly, Morrison (2000) demonstrated that a larger number of smaller workers were essential to the competitive success of the red imported fire ant S. invicta against a native ecological equivalent, S. geminata.”
• The Colony Structure and Population Biology of Invasive Ants (2003, background): “Thus, unicolonial invaders can prevail in competitive interactions with native species via numerical superiority (Human & Gordon 1996; Holway 1999; Morrison 2000; Holway & Case 2001).”
• Ecological Effects of Invasive Arthropod Generalist Predators (2006, background): “The red imported fire ant also appears to use superior numbers, rather than individual superiority in aggressive encounters, to overwhelm and displace native ants from food (Morrison 2000).”
• The influence of sociality on the conservation biology of social insects (2001, background): “(Superiority in competition with native congeners may also have been important: Morrison 2000.)”
• Eating their way to the top? Mechanisms underlying the success of invasive insect generalist predators (2010, background): “For example, Morrison (2000) showed that colonies of S. invicta were more successful at interference competition than two native ant species, but the native ants were more successful at exploiting resources, allowing for coexistence of the species.”
• The Causes and Consequences of Ant Invasions (2002, background): “Retrieves more food than does native S. geminata Morrison 1999 invicta (continued) Colony-level interference ability in the lab Morrison 2000 superior to that of native fire ants (S. geminata and S. geminata × S. xyloni hybrids) Active both day and night Morrison 2000 Solenopsis Use of physical…”
• REMOVAL EXPERIMENT REVEALS LIMITED EFFECTS OF A BEHAVIORALLY DOMINANT SPECIES ON ANT ASSEMBLAGES (2004, background): “Several recent studies have experimentally demonstrated that behavioral interactions at resources may be responsible for the displacement of native by invasive species (e.g., Holway 1999, Human and Gordon 1999, Morrison 2000).”