Biological invasions: The secret domination of alien ants

Cleo Bertelsmeier

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.053

Biological invasions: The secret domination of alien ants

Curr Biol. 2023 May 22;33(10):R410-R413. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.053.

Author

Cleo Bertelsmeier¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: cleo.bertelsmeier@unil.ch.

PMID: 37220734
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.053

Abstract

Globalization has contributed to the spread of thousands of species, yet only a few harmful ones have attracted most attention. New evidence shows that introduced ants are a particularly important group of global invaders that can dominate native insect communities.

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Animals
Ants*
Introduced Species