Niche opportunity and ant invasion: the case of Wasmannia auropunctata in a New Caledonian rain forest

By J. Breton, H. Jourdan, J. Chazeau, J. Orivel, A. Dejean. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2005

86 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Social Psychology

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. David Crowder
2. Kendra Walker
3. W. E. Snyder
4. A. Dejean
5. J. Orivel
6. M. Leponce
7. B. Corbara
8. J. Rosenheim

In Genetics

1. David Crowder
2. Kendra Walker
3. W. E. Snyder
4. A. Dejean
5. J. Orivel
6. M. Leponce
7. B. Corbara

Citations in the corpus

• Impact of the Little Fire Ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, on Native Forest Ants in Gabon 1 (2006, background): “Most known introductions of W. auropunctata occur on islands, where the higher vulnerability of native species to exotic invaders has long been recognized (Atkinson 1989, Loope & MuellerDombois 1989, Gillespie & Roderick 2002, Le Breton et al. 2005).”
• Rainforest Canopy Ants: The Implications of Territoriality and Predatory Behavior (2007, background): “…hemipterans (once again, one can note here the importance of hemipterans) on a large scale, and (3) a high level of aggressiveness towards native ants, that are displaced or eliminated most likely through a combination of predation and competition (Holway et al. 2002; Le Breton et al. 2005).”
• Eating their way to the top? Mechanisms underlying the success of invasive insect generalist predators (2010, background): “Similarly, Le Breton et al. (2005) showed that native ants exploited 45–65% of available food resources in Canada, while invasive colonies of Wasmannia auropunctata that were displacing them used over 90% of available resources.”