European colonialism has had a major impact on the spread of invasive insects. In a new paper, Aymeric Bonnamour (former PhD student in my team) has shown that introduced ants spread preferentially within the same empire as the countries of their native range. Colonial empires have ceased to influence invasions only after the 1960s…
check the new paper in Ecography out:
https://lnkd.in/emaDsMYQ
