Climate Change Can Exacerbate Ant Invasion Impacts by Unleashing Indoor Populations Into Outdoor Environments

Thousands of non‐native species have established populations and spread in outdoor environments (i.e., Naturalised), yet some populations or species only occur indoors, potentially due to unsuitable climates. We assessed the hypothesis that non‐native ants are more often restricted to indoor environments when they invade regions with climates dissimilar from their native regions. Furthermore, we forecasted how climate change could influence the naturalisation of indoor‐restricted non‐native ants.

• Publication year

  2025

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  Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity

• Publication date

  2025-07-01

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  DOI 10.1111/ddi.70041
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