The Gordon Lab
D. M. Gordon. 2010. Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior. Princeton University Press.
D. M. Gordon. 1999. Ants at Work: how an insect society is organized. Free Press, Simon and Schuster. 2000 paperback, W. W. Norton.
| 2015. Gordon, D.M. From division of labor to collective behavior. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-015-2045-3 | View on Springer Link (open access) |
| 2015. Pless, E., Queirolo, J., Pinter-Wollman, N., Crow, S.P., Allen, K., Mathur, M.B., Gordon, D.M. Interactions increase forager availability and activity in harvester ants. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141971 | View on PLoS One |
| 2015. Esponda, F., Gordon, D.M. Distributed nestmate recognition in ants. Proceedings Royal Society B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2838 | Proceedings Royal Society B website |
| 2015. Countryman, S.M., Stumpe, M.C., Crow, S.P., Adler, F.R., Greene, M.J., Vonshak, M., Gordon, D.M. Collective search by ants in microgravity. Frontiers Ecology Evolution. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00025 | frontiers website |
| 2015. Vonshak, M. and Gordon D. M. Intermediate disturbance promotes invasive ant abundance. Biological Conservation 186:359-367. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.03.024 | |
| 2014. Gordon, D.M. The ecology of collective behavior. PloS Biology DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001805 | View on PLoS Biology |
| 2013. Gordon, D.M. The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature12137 | |
| 2013. Pringle, E. G., Ackay, E., Raab, T., Dirzo, R., and D. M. Gordon. Water stress strengthens mutualism among ants, trees, and scale insects. PLoS Biology. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001705 | View on PLoS Biology |
| 2013. Gordon, D. M. and N. E. Heller. The invasive Argentine ant in Northern California reserves: from foraging behavior to local spread. Myrmecological News 19:103-110. | Myrmecological News Website |
| 2013. Ingram, K.K., Pilko A., Heer J., and D.M. Gordon. Colony life history and lifetime reproductive success of red harvester ant colonies. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12036 | |
| 2013. Gordon D. M., Pilko A., DeBortoli N., Ingram K. K. Does an ecological advantage produce the asymmetric lineage ratio in a harvester ant population? Oecologia. DOI 10.1007/s00442-013-2690-z | View on Springer Link (open access) |
| 2013. Pinter-Wollman, N., Bala A., Merrell A., Queirolo J., Stumpe M.C., Holmes S., D. M. Gordon. Harvester ants use interactions to regulate forager activation and availability. Animal Behaviour 86(1):197-207 | |
| 2013. Gordon, D.M., Dektar, K.N., Pinter-Wollman, N. Harvester ant colony variation in foraging activity and response to humidity. PLoS ONE 8(5): e63363. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063363 | View on PLoS ONE |
| 2013. Greene, M.J., Pinter-Wollman, N., and D.M. Gordon. Interactions with combined chemical cues inform harvester ant foragers' decisions to leave the nest in search of food. PLoS ONE 8(1):e52219. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052219 | View on PLoS ONE |
| 2013. Sturgis, S.J. and D.M. Gordon. Aggression is task-dependent in the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus). Behavioral Ecology 24(2):532-539 | |
| 2013. T P Flanagan, N M Pinter-Wollman, M E Moses, D M Gordon. Fast and flexible: Argentine ants recruit from nearby trails. PLoS One: 8(8): e70888. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070888 | View on PLoS ONE |
| 2013. Pringle, E. G. and D. M. Gordon. Protection mutualisms and the community: geographic variation in an ant-plant symbiosis and the consequences for herbivores. Sociobiology 60(3): 242-251. DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v60i3.242-251 | |
| 2012. Fitzgerald, K., Heller, N., and D.M. Gordon. Modeling the spread of the Argentine ant into natural areas: Habitat suitability and spread from neighboring sites. Ecological Modelling 247:262-272. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.07.036 | |
| 2012. Gordon, D.M. The dynamics of foraging trails in the tropical arboreal ant Cephalotes goniodontus. PLoS ONE 7(11):e50472. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050472 | View on PLoS ONE |
| 2012. Prabhakar, B., Dektar, K.N., and D.M. Gordon. The regulation of ant colony foraging activity without spatial information. PLoS Computational Biology 8(8):e1002670. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002670 | View on PLoS Computational Biology |
| 2012. Pinter-Wollman, N., Gordon, D.M., and S. Holmes. Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies. Behavioral Ecology 23(5): 1022-1029. doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars066 | |
| 2012. Fitzgerald, K., Gordon, D.M. Effects of vegetation cover, presence of a native ant species, and human disturbance on colonization by Argentine Ants. Conservation Biology 26(3): 525-538. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01836.x | |
| 2012. Pringle, E., Ramirez, S.R., Bonebrake, T.C., Gordon, D.M., Dirzo, R. Diversification and phylogeographic structure in widespread Azteca plant-ants from the northern Neotropics. Molecular Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05618.x | |
| 2012. Pringle, E., Dirzo, R., and D.M. Gordon. Plant defense, herbivory, and the growth of Cordia alliodora trees and their symbiotic Azteca ant colonies. Oecologia. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2340-x | |
| 2012. Sturgis, S., and D.M. Gordon. Nestmate recognition in ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): A review. Myrmecological News 16: 101-110 | Myrmecological News Website |
| 2012. Gordon, D. M. What we don't know about the evolution of cooperation in animals. In Cooperation and Its Evolution, Kim Sterelny, Richard Joyce, Brett Calcott, and Ben Fraser, Editors. Cambridge, Massuchesetts, The MIT Press. | |
| 2011. Sorrells, T.R., L.Y. Kuritzky, P.G. Kauhanen, K. Fitzgerald, S.J. Sturgis, J. Chen, C.A. Dijamco, K.N. Basurto, and D.M. Gordon. Chemical defense by the native Winter Ant (Prenolepis imparis) against the invasive Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile). PLoS ONE 6(4):e18717. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018717 | |
| 2011. Sturgis, S.J., M.J. Green, and D.M. Gordon. Hydrocarbons on harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) middens guide foragers to the nest. Journal of Chemical Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10886-011-9947-y | |
| 2011. Pinter-Wollman, N., R. Wollman, A. Guetz, S. Holmes, and D.M. Gordon. The effect of individual variation on the structure and function of interaction networks in harvester ants. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0059 | |
| 2011. Gordon, D.M. Twitter in the ant nest. Natural History 119(6): 10-41 | |
| 2011. Gordon, D.M. The fusion of ecology and behavioral ecology. Behavioral Ecology 22(2): 225-230 | |
| 2011. Gordon, D.M., A. Guetz, M.J. Greene, and S. Holmes. Colony variation in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ants. Behavioral Ecology 22(2): 429-435 | |
| 2011. Pringle, E., Dirzo R. and D.M. Gordon. Indirect benefits of symbiotic coccoids for an ant-defended myrmecophytic tree. Ecology 92(1): 37-46 | |
| 2009. Suni, S. and D.M. Gordon. Fine-scale genetic structure and dispersal distance in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Heredity 104(2):168-173 | |
| 2009. Frederickson, M.E. and D.M. Gordon. The intertwined population biology of two Amazonian myrmecophytes and their symbiotic ants. Ecology 90(6):1595-1607 | |