The Causes and Consequences of Ant Invasions
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David A. Holway,1 Lori Lach,2 Andrew V. Suarez,3 Neil D. Tsutsui,4 and Ted J. Case1 1Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; email: [email protected], [email protected] 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; email: [email protected] 3Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management & Division of Insect Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3112; email: [email protected] 4Center for Population Biology & Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, California 95616; email: [email protected]
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