Sabrina Amador-Vargas, PhD - Publications

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OTS Organization for Tropical Studies 

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2019 Amador-Vargas S, Dyer J, Arnold N, Cavanaugh L, Sánchez-Brenes E. Acacia trees with parasitic ants have fewer and less spacious spines than trees with mutualistic ants. Die Naturwissenschaften. 107: 3. PMID 31823014 DOI: 10.1007/S00114-019-1647-4  0.374
2017 Amador-Vargas S, Mueller UG. Ability to reorient is weakly correlated with central-place versus non-central-place foraging in acacia ants Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 71. DOI: 10.1007/S00265-016-2262-4  0.547
2016 Farji-Brener AG, Elizalde L, Fernández-Marín H, Amador-Vargas S. Social life and sanitary risks: evolutionary and current ecological conditions determine waste management in leaf-cutting ants. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 283. PMID 27226469 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2016.0625  0.34
2015 Farji-Brener AG, Chinchilla F, Umaña MN, Ocasio-Torres ME, Chauta-Mellizo A, Acosta-Rojas D, Marinaro S, Curth Mde T, Amador-Vargas S. Branching angles reflect a trade-off between reducing trail maintenance costs or travel distances in leaf-cutting ants. Ecology. 96: 510-7. PMID 26240872 DOI: 10.1890/14-0220.1  0.305
2015 Amador-Vargas S, Gronenberg W, Wcislo WT, Mueller U. Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 282: 20142502. PMID 25567649 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2014.2502  0.509
2015 Kardish MR, Mueller UG, Amador-Vargas S, Dietrich EI, Ma R, Barrett B, Fang C. Blind trust in unblinded observation in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 3. DOI: 10.3389/Fevo.2015.00051  0.502
2014 Amador-Vargas S, Dominguez M, León G, Maldonado B, Murillo J, Vides GL. Leaf-folding response of a sensitive plant shows context-dependent behavioral plasticity Plant Ecology. 215: 1445-1454. DOI: 10.1007/S11258-014-0401-4  0.334
2012 Amador-Vargas S. Plant Killing by Mutualistic Ants Increases the Density of Host Species Seedlings in the Dry Forest of Costa Rica Psyche. 2012: 1-6. DOI: 10.1155/2012/491592  0.368
2012 Amador-Vargas S. Run, robber, run: parasitic acacia ants use speed and evasion to steal food from ant‐defended trees Physiological Entomology. 37: 323-329. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-3032.2012.00844.X  0.384
2012 Amador-Vargas S. Behavioral responses of acacia ants correlate with age and location on the host plant Insectes Sociaux. 59: 341-350. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-012-0226-X  0.42
2011 Amador-Vargas S, Martínez JA, Giraldo-Beltrán P, González RM, Rifkin S, Gamarra-Toledo V. Ant body posture: Gaster curling increases ant speed Ecological Entomology. 36: 663-666. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2311.2011.01311.X  0.325
2008 Amador-Vargas S. 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: 241-245. DOI: 10.1007/S00040-008-1000-Y  0.425
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