Bibliography
Sabrina Amador
Amador-Vargas, S. and Wcislo, W. T. 2021. "Nestmate interference in acacia ants varies with colony size and task specialization." Animal Behaviour, 181 151–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.08.026.
Amador-Vargas, Sabrina, Orribarra, Vivian Sara, Portugal-Loayza, Ana, and Fernandez-Marin, Hermogenes. 2021. "Association patterns of swollen-thorn acacias with three ant species and other organisms in a dry forest of Panama." Biotropica, 53, (2) 560–566. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12899.
Gijsman, Finote, Gonzalez, Yorlenis, Guevara, Maikol, and Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2021. "Short-term plasticity and variation in acacia ant-rewards under different conditions of ant occupancy and herbivory." Science of Nature, 108, (4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-021-01738-w.
Amador-Vargas, Sabrina, Orribarra, Vivian Sara, Portugal-Loayza, Ana, and Fernández-Marín, Hermogenes. 2020. [Dataset] Dataset- Association patterns of swollen-thorn acacias with three ant species and other organisms in a dry forest of Panama. Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13114025.V1.
Amador‐Vargas, Sabrina. 2019. "Plant killing by Neotropical acacia ants: ecology, decision-making, and head morphology." Biotropica, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12695.
Amador-Vargas, Sabrina, Dyer, Jared, Arnold, Natalie, Cavanaugh, Leah, and Sánchez-Brenes, Elena. 2019. "Acacia trees with parasitic ants have fewer and less spacious spines than trees with mutualistic ants." The Science of Nature, 107, (1) 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-019-1647-4.
Farji-Brener, Alejandro and Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2019. "Plasticity in extended phenotypes: how the antlion Myrmeleon crudelis adjusts the pit traps depending on biotic and abiotic conditions." Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1163/22244662-20191055.
Farji-Brener, Alejandro, Elizalde, Luciana, Fernández-Marín, Hermógenes, and Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2016. "Social life and sanitary risks: evolutionary and current ecological conditions determine waste management in leaf-cutting ants." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283, (1831). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0625.
Amador-Vargas, Sabrina, Gronenberg, Wulfila, Wcislo, William T., and Mueller, Ulrich G. 2015. "Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, (1801). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2502.
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Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2014. Living in a Plant: Brain and behavioral traits of Acacia ants. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin.
Amador-Vargas, S. 2012. "Behavioral responses of acacia ants correlate with age and location on the host plant." Insectes Sociaux, 59, (3) 341–350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-012-0226-x.
Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2008. "Spartan defense in the Thermopylae pass: Strategic defense by aggregations of Pseudomyrmex spinicola (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on the trunk of Acacia collinsii (Mimosaceae)." Insectes Sociaux, 55, (3) 241–245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-008-1000-y.
