Maximum effect with minimum impact: A new selective control strategy for the Browsing ant Lepisiota frauenfeldi (Formicidae: Formicinae) minimize the impact on non-target species

• Masashi Yoshimura ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: myoshimura@ant-database.org

  Affiliations Environmental Science and Informatics Section, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan, Ryukyu Nature Positive, Independent Consultant, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1468-5541

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• Mayuko Suwabe,

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

  Affiliation Environmental Science and Informatics Section, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan

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• Kazuki Tsuji,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Nakagami, Okinawa, Japan

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• Yosuke Baba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SC Environmental Science Co., Ltd., Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan

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• Hiroshi Kakazu,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Naha City Hall, Naha, Okinawa, Japan

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• Tatsuya Miyagi,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Naha City Hall, Naha, Okinawa, Japan

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• Masako Ogasawara,

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

  Affiliation Environmental Science and Informatics Section, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1445-9563

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• Jumpei Uematsu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima, Japan

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• Evan P. Economo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan, Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Koji Ono

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

  Affiliation Okinawa Amami Nature Conservation Office, Ministry of the Environment, Naha, Okinawa, Japan

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