A literature survey identified 403 primary research publications that investigated the
ecological effects of invasive alien insects and/or the mechanisms underlying these effects …

The extinction of a single species is rarely an isolated event. Instead, dependent parasites,
commensals, and mutualist partners (affiliates) face the risk of coextinction as their hosts or …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1459–1474 Abstract There is growing concern that rapid
environmental degradation threatens mutualistic interactions. Because mutualisms can bind …

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning
of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …

The publication, in 1958, of Charles Elton's book The ecology of invasions by animals and
plants launched the systematic study of biological invasions. Invasion ecology has grown to …

We review direct and indirect impacts of invasive alien species (focussing on plants and
insects) on native bees worldwide. Although there is a rapidly growing body of research into …

Historic and current land-use changes have altered the landscape for grassland biota, with
over 90% of grasslands and savannas converted to agriculture or some other use in north …

The displacement of a species from a habitat by actions of another is the most severe
outcome of interspecific interactions. This review focuses on recent developments in the …

Ants show complex interactions with plants, both facultative and mutualistic, ranging from
grazers through seed predators and dispersers to herders of some herbivores and guards …

The impact of the imported fire ant (IFA) is complex, in large part, because several very
different species of “Fire Ants” have invaded and one of these has two forms, all of which are …