The cryptic impacts of invasion: functional homogenization of tropical ant communities by invasive fire ants
The diversity and distribution of traits in an ecological community shapes its responses to change and the ecosystem processes it modulates. This ‘functional diversity’, however, is not necessarily a direct outcome of taxonomic diversity. Invasions by exotic insects occur in ecosystems worldwide, bu...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2020
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