Books:
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.
Refereed:
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 pdf
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 link
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 pdf
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 link
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 link
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 pdf
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 pdf
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 pdf
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 pdf
2012. Sturgis, S., and D.M. Gordon. Nestmate recognition in ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): A review. Myrmecological News 16: 101-110 pdf
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 pdf
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. pdf
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. pdf
2011. Gordon, D.M. Twitter in the ant nest. Natural History 119(6): 10-41. pdf
2011. Gordon, D.M. The fusion of ecology and behavioral ecology. Behavioral Ecology 22(2): 225-230 pdf
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 pdf
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. pdf
2010. Suni, S. and D.M. Gordon. Fine-scale genetic structure and dispersal distance in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Heredity 104(2):168-173. pdf
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. pdf
2009. Beverly, B., H. McLendon, S. Nacu, S. Holmes, and D.M. Gordon. How site fidelity leads to individual differences in the foraging activity of harvester ants. Behavioral Ecology 20:633-638. pdf
2008. Heller, N.E., K.K. Ingram and D.M. Gordon. Nest connectivity and colony structure in unicolonial Argentine ants. Insectes Sociaux 55: 397-403.pdf
2008. Gordon, D. M., S. Holmes and S. Nacu. The short-term regulation of foraging in harvester ants. Behavioral Ecology 19:217-222. pdf
2008. Heller, N.E., N.J. Sanders, J.W. Shors and D.M. Gordon. Rainfall facilitates the spread, and time alters the impact of the invasive Argentine ant. Oecologia 155:385-395. pdf
2007. Gordon, D. M. Control without hierarchy. Nature 4468:143. pdf
2007. Greene, M.J. and D.M. Gordon. How patrollers set foraging direction in harvester ants. American Naturalist 170:943-948.
pdf
2007. Suni, S., C. Gignoux and D. M. Gordon. Male parentage in dependent-lineage populations of the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Molecular Ecology 16:5149-5155. pdf
2007. Frederickson, M. and D. M. Gordon. The devil
to pay: a cost of mutualism with Myrmelachista schumanni ants in "devil's
gardens" is increased herbivory on Duroia hirsuta trees. Proceedings Royal
Society B 274:1117-1123. pdf
2007. Greene, M.J. and D.M. Gordon. Interaction rate
informs harvester ant task decisions. Behavioral Ecology 18:451-455.
pdf
2007. Greene, M.J. and D.M. Gordon. Structural
complexity of chemical recognition cues affects the perception of group membership
in the ants Linepithema humile and Aphaenogaster cockerelli. Journal
Experimental Biology 201:897-905. pdf
2006. Linksvayer, T., M.J. Wade and D.M. Gordon.
Genetic caste determination in harvester ants: possible origin and maintenance by
cyto-nuclear epistasis. Ecology 87:2185-2193. pdf
2006. Schafer, R.J., S. Holmes and D.M. Gordon. Forager
activation and food availability in harvester ants. Animal Behaviour 71:815-822. pdf
2006. V.P. Volny, M.J. Greene and D.M. Gordon. Brood
production and lineage discrimination in a harvester ant population with genetic
caste determination. Ecology 87:2194-2200. pdf
2006. Heller, Nicole E., and D.M. Gordon. Seasonal
spatial dynamics and causes of nest movement in colonies of the invasive Argentine
ant (Linepithema humile). Ecological Entomology 31:499-510. pdf
2006. Heller, N.E., N.J. Sanders and D.M. Gordon.
Linking spatial and temporal scales in the study of an Argentine ant invasion.
Biological Invasions 8:501-507. pdf
2005. Frederickson, M., M.J. Greene and D.M. Gordon. Ants bedevil devil's gardens. Nature 437:495-496. pdf
2005. K. K. Ingram, P. Oefner and D. M. Gordon.
Task-specific expression of the foraging gene in harvester ants. Molecular
Ecology 14: 813-818. pdf
2005. D M Gordon, J Chu, A Lillie, M Tissot, and
N Pinter. Variation in the transition from inside to outside work in the red
harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Insectes Sociaux 52:212-217. pdf
2004. N. J. Sanders
and D. M. Gordon. The interactive effects of 2004. D. Wagner,
J B Jones and D M Gordon. Development of harvester 2003. Greene,
M.J. and D.M. Gordon. Cuticular hydrocarbons inform task decisions. Nature
423:32. pdf
2003. Ingram,
K.K. and D.M. Gordon. Genetic analysis of dispersal dynamics in an invading
population of Argentine ants, Linepithema humile. Ecology 84:2832-2842.
pdf
2003. Adler,
F.R. and D.M. Gordon. Optimization, conflict and non-overlapping foraging
ranges in ants. American Naturalist 162:529-543. pdf
2003. Sanders,
N.J., N.J. Gotelli, N.E. Heller, and D.M. Gordon. Community disassembly
by an invasive ant species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100: 2474-2477.
pdf
2003. Sanders,
N.J. and D.M. Gordon. Resource dependent interactions and the organization
of desert ant communities. Ecology 84: 1024-1031. pdf
2002. Gordon, D.M.
The regulation of foraging activity in red harvester ant colonies. American
Naturalist 159:509-518. pdf
2002. Volny,
V.P. and D.M. Gordon. Genetic basis for queen-worker dimorphism in a social
insect. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:6108-6111. pdf
2002. Barton, K.E., Sanders N. J., Gordon D. M. The effects of proximity and colony age on interspecific interference competition between the desert ants Pogonomyrmex barbatus and Aphaenogaster cockerelli. American Midland Naturalist 148:376-382. pdf
2001. Volny, V.P. and D.M. Gordon. Characterization
of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex
barbatus. Mol Ecol Notes 2:302-303. pdf
2001. Wagner, D., Tissot, M. and D. M. Gordon.
Task-related environment alters the cuticular hydrocarbon composition of
harvester ants. J. Chemical Ecology 27:1805-1819. pdf
2001. Pereira, H. and D. M. Gordon. A trade-off
in task allocation between sensitivity to the environment and response
time. J. Theoretical Biology 208:165-184. pdf
2001. Sanders, N. J., Barton, K.E., and D.
M. Gordon. Dynamics of the distribution and impact of the invasive Argentine
ant, Linepithema humile, in northern California. Oecologia 127:123-130. pdf
2001. Gordon, D. M., L. Moses, M. Falkowitz-Halpern, and E. H. Wong. Effect of weather on infestation of buildings by the invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile. American Midland Naturalist 146:321-328. pdf
2001. Nelson, D. R., Tissot, M., Nelson, L.
J. Fatland, C. L, and D. M. Gordon. Novel wax esters and hydrocarbons in
the cuticular surface lipids of the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex
barbatus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B 128(3):575-595. pdf
2000. Wagner, D., Tissot, M., Cuevas, W.,
and D. M. Gordon. Harvester ants utilize cuticular hydrocarbons in nestmate
recognition. J. Chemical Ecology 26 (10):2245-2257. pdf
2000. Sanders, N. and D. M. Gordon. The effects
of interspecific interactions on resource use and behavior in a desert
ant. Oecologia 125: 436:443. pdf
2000. Brown M. J. F, Gordon D. M. How resources
and encounters affect the distribution of foraging activity in a seed-harvesting
ant. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 47: 195-203. pdf
1999. Gordon, D. M. Interaction patterns and
task allocation in ant colonies. In C. Detrain, J M Pasteels, J L Deneubourg,
eds. Information Processing in Social Insects. Birkhuaser Verlag. pp. 51-67. pdf
1999. Human, K. G. and D. M. Gordon. Behavioral
interactions of the invasive Argentine ant with native species. Insectes
Sociaux 46:159-163. pdf
1999. Gordon, D. M. and Mehdiabadi, N. Encounter
rate and task allocation in harvester ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
45:370-77. pdf
1999. Wagner, D. and D. M. Gordon. Colony
age, neighborhood density and reproductive potential in harvester ants.
Oecologia 119:175-182. pdf
1998. D Wagner, M. J. F. Brown, P. Broun,
W. Cuevas, L. E. Moses, D. L. Chao and D. M. Gordon. Task-related differences
in the cuticular hydrocarbon composition of harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex
barbatus. J Chemical Ecology 24:2021-2037 pdf
1998. Human, K. G., Weiss, S., Weiss, A.,
Sandler B. and Gordon D. M. The effect of abiotic factors on the local
distribution of the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile)
and native ant species. Environmental Entomology 27:822-833. pdf
1998. Gordon, D. M. and A. Kulig. The effect
of neighboring colonies on mortality in harvester ants. Journal of Animal
Ecology 67: 141-148. pdf
1997. Gordon, D. M. and D. Wagner. Neighborhood
density and reproductive potential in harvester ants. Oecologia 109:556-560. pdf
1997. Brown, M. J. F. and D. M. Gordon. Individual
specialisation and encounters between harvester ant colonies. Behaviour
134: 849-866. pdf
1997. Human, K. G. and Brown, M. J. F. Effects of harvester ants on plant species distribution and abundance in a serpentine grassland. Oecologia 112:237-243. PDF 1997. Human, K. G. and D. M. Gordon. Effects
of Argentine ants on invertebrate biodiversity in northern California.
Conservation Biology 11:1242-1248. pdf
1997. D. Wagner, M. J. F. Brown and D. M.
Gordon. Harvester ant nests, soil biota and soil chemistry. Oecologia 112:232-236. pdf
1997. Gordon, D. M. The population consequences
of territorial behavior. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12:63-66. pdf
1996. Gordon, D. M. The organization of work
in social insect colonies. Nature 380:121-124. pdf
1996. Gordon, D. M. and A. W. Kulig. Founding,
foraging and fighting: colony size and the spatial distribution of harvester
ant nests. Ecology 77:2393-2409. pdf
1996. Pacala, S. W., D. M. Gordon and H.C.J.
Godfray. Effects of social group size on information transfer and task
allocation. Evolutionary Ecology 10:127-165. pdf
1996. Human, K. G. and D. M. Gordon. Exploitative
and interference competition between the Argentine ant and native ant species.
Oecologia 105:405-412. pdf
1995. Gordon, D. M. The expandable network
of ant exploration. Animal Behaviour 50:995-1007. pdf
1995. Gordon, D. M. The development of an
ant colony's foraging range. Animal Behaviour 49: 649-659. pdf
1993. Gordon, D. M. The spatial scale of seed
collection by harvester ants. Oecologia 95: 479-487. pdf
1993. Gordon, D. M., R. E. H. Paul, and K.
Thorpe. What is the function of encounter patterns in ant colonies? Animal
Behaviour 45:1083-1100. pdf
1992. Gordon, D. M. Wittgenstein and ant-watching.
Biology & Philosophy 7:13-25. pdf
1992. Adler, F. R. and D. M. Gordon. Information
collection and spread by networks of patrolling ants. American Naturalist
140:373-400. pdf
1992. Gordon, D. M., R. Rosengren and L. Sundstrom.
The allocation of foragers in red wood ants. Ecological Entomology 17:114-120. pdf
1992. Gordon, D. M. Nest relocation in the
harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Annals Entomol. Soc. Am. 85(1):44-47. pdf
1992. Gordon, D. M. B. Goodwin, and L. E.
H. Trainor. A parallel distributed model of ant colony behaviour. Journal
of Theoretical Biology 156:293-307. pdf
1992. Gordon, D. M. How colony growth affects
forager intrusion in neighboring harvester ant colonies. Behavioral Ecology
and Sociobiology 31:417-427. pdf
1991. Gordon, D. M. Comment on Short-term
activity cycles in ants." American Naturalist 137:260-61. pdf
1991. Gordon, D. M. Variation and change in
behavioral ecology. Ecology 72:1196-1203. pdf
1991. Gordon, D. M. Behavioral flexibility
and the foraging ecology of seed-eating ants. American Naturalist 138:379-411. pdf
1989. Gordon, D. M. Ants distinguish neighbours
from strangers. Oecologia 81:198-200. pdf
1989. Silverton, J. and D. M. Gordon. A framework
for the analysis of plant behaviour. Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics,
vol. 20. pdf
1989. Gordon, D. M. Caste and change in social
insects. In Oxford Surveys in Evolu-tionary Biology, vol. 6, P. Harvey
and L. Partridge, eds., p. 56-72. Oxford University Press. pdf
1989. Gordon, D. M. Dynamics of task switching
in harvester ants. Animal Behaviour 38: 194-204. pdf
1988. Gordon, D. M. Group-level exploration
tactics in fire ants. Behaviour 104:162-175. pdf
1988. Gordon, D. M. Nest-plugging: interference
competition in desert harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus and
Novomessor cockerelli ). Oecologia 75: 114-117. pdf
1987. Gordon, D. M. and B. Holldobler. Worker
longevity in harvester ants. Psyche 94: 341-46. pdf
1987. Gordon, D. M. Group-level dynamics in
harvester ants: young colonies and the role of patrolling. Animal Behaviour
35:833-843. pdf
1986. Gordon, D. M. The dynamics of the daily
round of the harvester ant colony. Animal Behaviour 34: 1402-1419. pdf
1985. Gordon, D. M. Do we need more ethograms?
Zietschrift fur Tierpsychologie 68: 340-342. pdf
1984. Gordon, D. M. The persistence of role
in exterior workers of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius. Psyche
91(3-4): 251-266. pdf
1984. Gordon, D. M. Harvester ant middens:
refuse or boundary? Ecological Entomology 9:403-412. pdf
1984 . Gordon, D. M. Species-specific patterns
in the social activities of harvester ant colonies. Insectes Sociaux 31(1):74-86. pdf
1983. Gordon, D. M. Daily rhythms in social
activities of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius. Psyche 90(4):413-423. pdf
1983. Gordon, D. M. The relation of recruitment
rate to activity rhythms in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus.
J. Kansas Entomological Society 56(3):277-285. pdf
1983. Gordon, D. M. Dependence of necrophoric
response to oleic acid on social context in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex
badius. J. Chemical Ecology 9(1): 105-111. pdf
Invited:
2012. Gordon, D.M., and N.E. Heller. Seeing the forst and the trees. Behavioral Ecology. doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars046 pdf
2010. Gordon, D.M. The beauty of ant antics. Nature 465(7295): 163 pdf
2010. Gordon, D. M. Colonial studies. Boston Review, September 2010. pdf
2003. Gordon, D.M. The organization of work
in social insect colonies. Complexity 8: 43-46. pdf
2001. Gordon, D.M. The development of ant
colony behavior. In Oyama, S., R. Gray, and P. Griffiths, eds. Cycles of
Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution. MIT Press. PDF
2001. Gordon, D.M. Task allocation in ant
colonies. In Segel, L., ed. Design Principles for the Immune System and
other Disturbed Autonomous Systems. Oxford University Press.
2001. Hirsh, A.E. and D.M. Gordon. Distributed
problem solving in social insects. Annals of Mathematics and Artifical
Intelligence 31:199-221.
2000. Gordon, D.M. The evolution of social
behavior. In Singh, R. S. and C. Krimbas, eds. Evolutionary Genetics: From
Molecules to Morphology. Cambridge University Press.
1998. Review of J.K. Parrish and W.M. Hamner,
eds. Animal Groups in Three Dimensions. Animal Behaviour 56:798-799.
1998. Review of R. K. Vandermeer, M . D. Breed,
M. L. Winston, K. E. Espelie, eds., Pheromone Communication in Social Insects:
Ants, Wasps, Bees and Termites. Quarterly Review Biology 73:361.
1997. Gordon, D. M. Networking ants. Natural
History. September 1997 p. 26.
1996. Gordon, D. M. Task allocation and interaction
rates in ant colonies. In Greenberg, G. and Tobach, E. eds., Comparative
Psychology of Invertebrates: The Field and Laboratory Study of Insect Behavior.
Garland Publishing, Inc.
1996. How sociobiology explains ant behavior.
Review of A. Bourke and N. Franks, Social Evolution in Ants. Ecology 77.
1996. Gordon, D. M. Soldier production under
threat. News and Views, Nature 379:583-584.
1995. Gordon, D. M. The development of organization
in ant colonies. American Scientist 83:50-57.
1995. Gordon, D. M. Look to the ant, thou
sluggard. Review of B. Holldobler and E. O. Wilson, Journey to the Ants.
Nature 372:292.
1995. Gordon, D. M. Peter and the Wolf. Review
of P. Steinhart, The Company of Wolves. Stanford magazine, September 1995.
1995. Gordon, D. M. Review of J.H. Hunt and
C.A. Nalepa, eds, Nourishment and Evolution in Insect Societies. Trends
in Ecology and Evolution 10:90.
1994. Gordon, D. M. How social insect colonies
respond to variable environments. In Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolution.
L. Real, ed. University of Chicago Press.
1993. Gordon, D. M. Communal Dwellings. In
Animal Behaviour. T. Halliday, ed. Weldon Russell Publishing.
1993. Gordon, D. M. Untangling data and theory.
Review of D. H. Wise, Spiders in Ecological Webs. Nature 362: 800.
1992. Gordon, D. M. Phenotypic plasticity.
In Keywords in Evolutionary Biology. E. A. Lloyd and E. F. Keller, eds.
Harvard University Press. p.255-262.
1988. Gordon, D. M. Behavior changes - finding
the rules. In Processes and Metaphors in the Evolutionary Paradigm. M.
Ho and S. Fox, eds. London: Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1988. Gordon, D. M. Groups, change and the
ordinary: some new questions about ant behavior. In Advances in Myrmecology,
R. H. Arnett, ed. New York: E.J. Brill Co.
1987. Gordon, D. M. The group context of role
switching in harvester ants. In Inter-individual Behavioral Variability
in Social Insects. R.L. Jeanne, ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
1987. Gordon, D. M. The dynamics of group
behavior. In Perspectives in Ethology, vol. 7. P.P.G. Bateson and P.H.
Klopfer, eds. New York: Plenum Press.
1986. Gordon, D. M. The development of organizational
flexibility in harvester ant colonies. In Evolution of Social Behavior
and Integrative Levels. G. Greenberg and E. Tobach, eds. Lawrence Hillbaum
Press.
climate and interspecific neighbours on mortality of red harvester
ants. Ecological Entomology 29:632-637. pdf
ant colonies alters soil chemistry. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
36:797-804. pdf