Alejandro Rico-Guevara

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Biology

#16113

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#20235

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Evolutionary Biology

#470

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#503

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Ecology

#1321

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#1442

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Alejandro Rico-Guevara's Degrees

PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University
Masters Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Alejandro Rico-Guevara is an evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecophysicist. His scientific research has focused on nectar-feeding animals with an emphasis on hummingbird bill morphology and biomechanics. He is an assistant professor in the Biology Department at the University of Washington and Curator of Ornithology at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

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Alejandro Rico-Guevara's Published Works

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The hummingbird tongue is a fluid trap, not a capillary tube (2011) (92)
Intrasexually selected weapons (2018) (91)
Bills as daggers? A test for sexually dimorphic weapons in a lekking hummingbird (2015) (52)
Shifting Paradigms in the Mechanics of Nectar Extraction and Hummingbird Bill Morphology (2019) (29)
Hummingbird tongues are elastic micropumps (2015) (27)
Linking ecomechanical models and functional traits to understand phenotypic diversity. (2021) (21)
Early origin of sweet perception in the songbird radiation (2021) (19)
Genetic Differentiation, Niche Divergence, and the Origin and Maintenance of the Disjunct Distribution in the Blossomcrown Anthocephala floriceps (Trochilidae) (2014) (14)
Bring your own camera to the trap: An inexpensive, versatile, and portable triggering system tested on wild hummingbirds (2017) (13)
Bene'fit' assessment in pollination coevolution: mechanistic perspectives on hummingbird bill-flower matching. (2021) (12)
Morphology and Function of the Drinking Apparatus in Hummingbirds (2014) (11)
Sucking or lapping: facultative feeding mechanisms in honeybees (Apis mellifera) (2020) (11)
Feeding in Birds: Thriving in Terrestrial, Aquatic, and Aerial Niches (2019) (10)
Functional morphology of hummingbird bill tips: their function as tongue wringers. (2017) (10)
Relating form to function in the hummingbird feeding apparatus (2017) (8)
Locomotion and energetics of divergent foraging strategies in hummingbirds: A review. (2021) (8)
Hummingbird feeding mechanics: Comments on the capillarity model (2012) (6)
Intersexual social dominance mimicry drives female hummingbird polymorphism (2022) (4)
Mechanoethology: The Physical Mechanisms of Behavior (2021) (4)
Variable evidence for convergence in morphology and function across avian nectarivores (2022) (2)
Oh, snap! A within-wing sonation in black-tailed trainbearers. (2022) (1)
Nectar feeding beyond the tongue: hummingbirds drink using phase-shifted bill opening, flexible tongue flaps and wringing at the tips. (2023) (1)
Modeling of Transient Nectar Flow in Hummingbird Tongues (2015) (0)
A new interpretation of the functional morphology of Uroactinia sp. (Uropodina: Uroactinidae) using advanced microscopic techniques (2022) (0)
Corrigendum to: Locomotion and energetics of divergent foraging strategies in hummingbirds: A Review. (2021) (0)
ohun: an R package for diagnosing and optimizing automatic sound event detection (2022) (0)
Poster and Exhibit Abstracts ( In alphabetical order by author ) (0)
Integrative and Comparative Biology (2021) (0)
The evolution of sexually dimorphic traits in ecological gradients: an interplay between natural and sexual selection in hummingbirds (2022) (0)
The Fast and Non-capillary Fluid Filling Mechanism in the Hummingbird's Tongue (2014) (0)
Morphological specialization to nectarivory in Phyllostomus discolor (Wagner, 1843) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). (2022) (0)
Adding dimensions to acarology: synchrotron based micro-CT scan and 3D models to study internal morphology in Mesostigmata (2022) (0)

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