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Live-in if you Must:Density-Dependent Nest-Sharing between Two Competitive Ant Species


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Linepithema humile (Mayr, 1868), commonly known as the Argentine ant, qualifies as one of the '100 of the world's worst invasive alien species'. Tapinoma nigerrimum (Nylander, 1856), commonly known as the odorous ant, is native to the Mediterranean coast and has parapatric distribution with the invading L. humile.
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  • Live-in if you Must:Density-Dependent Nest-Sharing between Two Competitive Ant Species

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Alok Bang
Laboratoire Ecology, Systematique and Evolution UMR CNRS 8079, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay 91405, France
Gloria M. Luque
Laboratoire Ecology, Systematique and Evolution UMR CNRS 8079, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay 91405, France
Franck Courchamp
Laboratoire Ecology, Systematique and Evolution UMR CNRS 8079, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay 91405, France

Abstract


Linepithema humile (Mayr, 1868), commonly known as the Argentine ant, qualifies as one of the '100 of the world's worst invasive alien species'. Tapinoma nigerrimum (Nylander, 1856), commonly known as the odorous ant, is native to the Mediterranean coast and has parapatric distribution with the invading L. humile.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi08%2F1631-1632