{"id":1509,"date":"2025-10-12T22:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2025-10-12T22:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:05:50","slug":"european-colonialism-has-influenced-insect-invasions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/2025\/10\/european-colonialism-has-influenced-insect-invasions\/","title":{"rendered":"European colonialism has influenced insect invasions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>European colonialism has had a major impact on the spread of invasive insects. In a new paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aymeric-bonnamour-559680138\/\">Aymeric Bonnamour<\/a> (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&#8230;<br>check the new paper in Ecography out:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/emaDsMYQ\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/emaDsMYQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"821\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/files\/2025\/10\/capture-decran-2025-10-12-a-22.01.33-1024x821.png\" alt=\"capture d\u2019\u00e9cran 2025 10 12 \u00e0 22.01.33\" class=\"wp-image-1511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/files\/2025\/10\/capture-decran-2025-10-12-a-22.01.33-1024x821.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/files\/2025\/10\/capture-decran-2025-10-12-a-22.01.33-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/files\/2025\/10\/capture-decran-2025-10-12-a-22.01.33-768x616.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/files\/2025\/10\/capture-decran-2025-10-12-a-22.01.33.png 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">capture d\u2019\u00e9cran 2025 10 12 \u00e0 22.01.33<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;check the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-and-press"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/bertelsmeiergroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}