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- The International Union for the Conservation of Nature includes five different ant species on its list of 100 of the world’s worst invasive alien species. But while invasive ants have dramatically transformed some of the areas they have been able to invade, other areas appear to be far less affected, or even totally unaffected.
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In 18 months the crazy ants were able to kill 3 million crabs. The land crabs play an important role in Christmas Island’s forest ecosystem helping in litter breakdown and influencing forest composition by eating leaves and seedlings of rainforest trees.
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Feb 6, 2023 · Top row (invasion capacity) summarizes the diversity of species (and subspecies) for the global pool of ants (all ants [native]) and for 520 alien ant species in three levels of invasion capacity and biosecurity threat that increase from left to right.
Pheidole megacephala is one of the world s worst invasive ant species. Believed to be native to southern Africa, it is now found throughout the temperate and tropical zones of the world.
Jan 20, 2023 · Invasive ants are a bigger threat than we thought. More than 500 ant species have been found in places where they shouldn’t be—wreaking havoc on local ecosystems. How do we stop them?
- Rebecca Dzombak
Sep 19, 2023 · The International Union for the Conservation of Nature includes five different ant species on its list of 100 of the world’s worst invasive alien species. But while invasive ants...
Oct 15, 2020 · To test whether invasive species have expanded more into novel climates than non-invasive alien species, we quantified niche shifts of 82 ant species.
May 22, 2023 · 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.
