Here today, gone tomorrow: declines and local extinctions of invasive ant populations in the absence of intervention

Cooling, Meghan; Hoffmann, Benjamin D.

doi:10.1007/s10530-015-0963-7

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“…The eventual permanence of the documented local, established nests or populations of a majority of exotic ants is only rarely reported. Interestingly, data reported here provide a neat case of a peek-a-boo, a population phenomenon already noted in ants and other organisms, where seemingly well-established populations disappear more or less suddenly for unknown or dubious reasons (Simberloff and Gibbons 2004;Cooling and Hoffmann 2015;Tartally et al 2019).…”

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confidence: 66%

Two additions to the Iberian myrmecofauna: Crematogaster inermis Mayr, 1862, a newly established, tree-nesting species, and Trichomyrmex mayri (Forel, 1902), an emerging exotic species temporarily nesting in Spain (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Casiraghi¹,

Espadaler²,

Hidalgo³

et al. 2020

JHR

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Exotic ants are a growing component of urban and disturbed habitats worldwide. Sampling in two Iberian Mediterranean localities revealed several exotic species. The tree-nesting, black acrobat ant Crematogaster inermis Mayr, 1862, has been detected nesting outdoors on a Robinia pseudoacacia tree in a public garden in Valencia (Spain) and represents a new addition to the continental European fauna. Collection details, a morphological description, biometry, and the remarkable presence of short spines in smaller specimens are also given for this species. A case of an ephemeral establishment of several exotic ant species in a palm grove is also discussed. This case includes C. inermis and Trichomyrmex mayri, also a novelty for the Iberian Peninsula.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Two additions to the Iberian myrmecofauna: Crematogaster inermis Mayr, 1862, a newly established, tree-nesting species, and Trichomyrmex mayri (Forel, 1902), an emerging exotic species temporarily nesting in Spain (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Casiraghi¹,

Espadaler²,

Hidalgo³

et al. 2020

JHR

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“…Those examples by themselves are not sufficient to make native range a universal concept. Even for some notorious invasive species, such as the yellow crazy ant ( Anoplolepis gracilipes ), native range is unknown (Cooling & Hoffman 2015), and therefore this species is likely considered non‐native even in the region it evolved in.…”

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Debate over the importance and meaning of native range in invasion biology: reply to Courchamp et al.

Pereyra

Guiașu

2020

Conservation Biology

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“…Similarly, populations of Argentine ant (Linepithelma humile) have decreased at 40% of the sites surveyed, with a mean survival time of 14 years (Cooling et al, 2012). More recently, yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) populations have declined or disappeared in Australia without human intervention (Cooling & Hoffmann, 2015).…”

Section: Specimen Processingmentioning

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Diversity of ant assemblages (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in an urban environment in Cameroon during and after colonization of the area by Wasmannia auropunctata

Massé¹,

Tindo²,

Djiéto‐Lordon³

et al. 2019

Eur. J. Entomol.

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According to Holway et al. (2002), six ants are recognized as the most widespread and damaging invasive species: Anoplopepis gracilipes (yellow crazy ant), Linepithelma humile (Argentine ant), Pheidole megacephala (African bigheaded ant), Solenopsis invicta (red imported fi re ant), Solenopsis geminata (tropical fi re ant) and Wasmannia auropunctata (little fi re ant). Wasmannia auropunctata Roger, 1893 is one of the most harmful invasive species in the world (Wetterer & Porter, 2003). Native to Central and South America, W. auropunctata has been introduced throughout the West Indies, Australia, Israel, Italy, Pacifi c islands groups and West Africa (Wetterer, 2013). In Cameroon, W. auropunctata was fi rst reported in cocoa plantations along the Kribi-Ebolowa road (de Miré, 1969). Since then, it has successfully spread into southern and eastern Cameroon (Tindo et al., 2012), where it has severely reduced the abundance and richness of native ant species (Mbenoun et al., 2017). The invasive success of exotic species can vary substantially over time from population explosions to population

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Here today, gone tomorrow: declines and local extinctions of invasive ant populations in the absence of intervention

Cited by 44 publications

References 18 publications

Two additions to the Iberian myrmecofauna: Crematogaster inermis Mayr, 1862, a newly established, tree-nesting species, and Trichomyrmex mayri (Forel, 1902), an emerging exotic species temporarily nesting in Spain (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Two additions to the Iberian myrmecofauna: Crematogaster inermis Mayr, 1862, a newly established, tree-nesting species, and Trichomyrmex mayri (Forel, 1902), an emerging exotic species temporarily nesting in Spain (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Debate over the importance and meaning of native range in invasion biology: reply to Courchamp et al.

Diversity of ant assemblages (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in an urban environment in Cameroon during and after colonization of the area by Wasmannia auropunctata

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