Southern expansion of the invasive ant Wasmannia auropunctata within its native range and its relation with clonality and human activity

• Lucila Chifflet ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: lu_chifflet@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3260-8710

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• Noelia Verónica Guzmán,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Olivier Rey,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire of Interactions Host-Parasites-Environment, Université de Perpignan, CNRS, IFREMER, Université de Montpellier, Perpignan, France

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• Viviana Andrea Confalonieri,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Luis Alberto Calcaterra

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundación para el Estudio de Especies Invasivas, Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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