Deborah M. Gordon
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- PhD Biology Duke University
- Bachelors Biology Haverford College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Deborah M. Gordon is an American biologist best known for her impactful research in the behavioral ecology of ants and her studies on the operations of ant colonies without a central control. In addition to overseeing The Gordon Lab, she is currently a Professor of Biology at Stanford University.
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Published Works
- The organization of work in social insect colonies (1996) (549)
- Community disassembly by an invasive species (2003) (463)
- Exploitation and interference competition between the invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, and native ant species (1996) (440)
- Social insects: Cuticular hydrocarbons inform task decisions (2003) (269)
- Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior (2010) (225)
- Ants at Work - How an Insect Society Is Organized (1999) (221)
- Behavioral Flexibility and the Foraging Ecology of Seed-Eating Ants (1991) (211)
- Dynamics of task switching in harvester ants (1989) (205)
- Founding, foraging, and fighting: colony size and the spatial distribution of harvester ant nests (1996) (203)
- Effects of Argentine Ants on Invertebrate Biodiversity in Northern California (1997) (198)
- Genetic basis for queen–worker dimorphism in a social insect (2002) (165)
- Encounter rate and task allocation in harvester ants (1999) (165)
- Harvester Ants Utilize Cuticular Hydrocarbons in Nestmate Recognition (2000) (164)
- Task‐specific expression of the foraging gene in harvester ants (2005) (162)
- What is the function of encounter patterns in ant colonies? (1993) (158)
- Effects of social group size on information transfer and task allocation (1996) (144)
- Behavioral interactions of the invasive Argentine ant with native ant species (1999) (143)
- Task-Related Environment Alters the Cuticular Hydrocarbon Composition of Harvester Ants (2001) (135)
- Information Collection and Spread by Networks of Patrolling Ants (1992) (132)
- The effect of individual variation on the structure and function of interaction networks in harvester ants (2011) (126)
- Harvester ant nests, soil biota and soil chemistry (1997) (125)
- Interaction rate informs harvester ant task decisions (2007) (125)
- Task-Related Differences in the Cuticular Hydrocarbon Composition of Harvester Ants, Pogonomyrmex barbatus (1998) (119)
- Nestmate recognition in ants ( Hymenoptera : Formicidae ) : a review (2012) (118)
- The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies (2013) (115)
- The development of an ant colony's foraging range (1995) (113)
- Seasonal spatial dynamics and causes of nest movement in colonies of the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) (2006) (110)
- From division of labor to the collective behavior of social insects (2015) (108)
- Harvester ants use interactions to regulate forager activation and availability (2013) (103)
- RESOURCE‐DEPENDENT INTERACTIONS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF DESERT ANT COMMUNITIES (2003) (101)
- Development of harvester ant colonies alters soil chemistry (2004) (101)
- Effects of abiotic factors on the distribution and activity of the invasive Argentine ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (1998) (100)
- The Regulation of Ant Colony Foraging Activity without Spatial Information (2012) (100)
- Ecology: ‘Devil's gardens’ bedevilled by ants (2005) (98)
- A Parallel Distributed Model of the Behaviour of Ant Colonies (1992) (97)
- Structural complexity of chemical recognition cues affects the perception of group membership in the ants Linephithema humile and Aphaenogaster cockerelli (2007) (97)
- The dynamics of the daily round of the harvester ant colony (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) (1986) (96)
- The Organization of Work in Social Insect (2003) (95)
- How site fidelity leads to individual differences in the foraging activity of harvester ants (2009) (94)
- The Ecology of Collective Behavior (2014) (93)
- Group-level dynamics in harvester ants: young colonies and the role of patrolling (1987) (92)
- The Regulation of Foraging Activity in Red Harvester Ant Colonies (2002) (88)
- A Framework for Plant Behavior (1989) (82)
- Nest connectivity and colony structure in unicolonial Argentine ants (2008) (80)
- The expandable network of ant exploration (1995) (79)
- Optimization, Conflict, and Nonoverlapping Foraging Ranges in Ants (2003) (77)
- Forager activation and food availability in harvester ants (2006) (76)
- Pheromone Communication in Social Insects: Ants, Wasps, Bees, and Termites.Robert K. Vander Meer, Michael D. Breed , Karl E. Espelie , Mark L. Winston (1998) (74)
- Colony variation in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ants. (2011) (74)
- Control without hierarchy (2007) (74)
- Dependence of necrophoric response to oleic acid on social context in the ant,Pogonomyrmex badius (2004) (74)
- How colony growth affects forager intrusion between neighboring harvester ant colonies (1992) (72)
- Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies. (2012) (70)
- The population consequences of territorial behaviour. (1997) (68)
- Ants distinguish neighbors from strangers (1989) (68)
- Nest Relocation in Harvester Ants (1992) (67)
- Rainfall facilitates the spread, and time alters the impact, of the invasive Argentine ant (2008) (64)
- How resources and encounters affect the distribution of foraging activity in a seed-harvesting ant (2000) (64)
- The spatial scale of seed collection by harvester ants (1993) (61)
- Design of selective, ATP-competitive inhibitors of Akt. (2010) (60)
- American Society for Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) joint consensus statement on prevention of postoperative infection within an enhanced recovery pathway for elective colorectal surgery (2017) (59)
- Colony age, neighborhood density and reproductive potential in harvester ants (1999) (57)
- The short-term regulation of foraging in harvester ants (2008) (57)
- Colony life history and lifetime reproductive success of red harvester ant colonies. (2013) (56)
- Harvester Ant Colony Variation in Foraging Activity and Response to Humidity (2013) (56)
- The fusion of behavioral ecology and ecology (2011) (56)
- Seeing the forest and the trees (2012) (55)
- The intertwined population biology of two Amazonian myrmecophytes and their symbiotic ants. (2009) (55)
- The effects of interspecific interactions on resource use and behavior in a desert ant (2000) (55)
- The Evolution of the Algorithms for Collective Behavior. (2016) (52)
- GENETIC ANALYSIS OF DISPERSAL DYNAMICS IN AN INVADING POPULATION OF ARGENTINE ANTS (2003) (51)
- Water Stress Strengthens Mutualism Among Ants, Trees, and Scale Insects (2013) (50)
- Indirect benefits of symbiotic coccoids for an ant-defended myrmecophytic tree. (2011) (47)
- Interactions with Combined Chemical Cues Inform Harvester Ant Foragers' Decisions to Leave the Nest in Search of Food (2013) (46)
- Linking Temporal and Spatial Scales in the Study of an Argentine Ant Invasion (2006) (46)
- American Society for Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) Joint Consensus Statement on Optimal Analgesia within an Enhanced Recovery Pathway for Colorectal Surgery: Part 2—From PACU to the Transition Home (2017) (45)
- How Patrollers Set Foraging Direction in Harvester Ants (2007) (45)
- The devil to pay: a cost of mutualism with Myrmelachista schumanni ants in ‘devil's gardens’ is increased herbivory on Duroia hirsuta trees (2007) (45)
- Fast and Flexible: Argentine Ants Recruit from Nearby Trails (2013) (44)
- The Ecology of Collective Behavior in Ants. (2019) (43)
- Interaction patterns and task allocation in ant colonies (1999) (43)
- Variation in the transition from inside to outside work in the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus (2005) (42)
- Effect of Interactions between Harvester Ants on Forager Decisions (2016) (42)
- The behavioral ecology of variation in social insects. (2016) (41)
- Intermediate disturbance promotes invasive ant abundance (2015) (41)
- Neighborhood density and reproductive potential in harvester ants (1997) (40)
- Distributed nestmate recognition in ants (2015) (40)
- The Dynamics of Foraging Trails in the Tropical Arboreal Ant Cephalotes goniodontus (2012) (38)
- The Development of Organization in an Ant Colony (1995) (38)
- Understanding Unconventional Oil (2012) (38)
- The effect of neighbours on the mortality of harvester ant colonies (1998) (38)
- Distributed problem solving in social insects (2001) (37)
- Effect of Weather on Infestation of Buildings by the Invasive Argentine Ant, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2001) (37)
- The allocation of foragers in red wood ants (1992) (36)
- Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus (2002) (35)
- Chemical Defense by the Native Winter Ant (Prenolepis imparis) against the Invasive Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile) (2011) (35)
- Worker longevity in harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex) (1987) (35)
- Plant defense, herbivory, and the growth of Cordia alliodora trees and their symbiotic Azteca ant colonies (2012) (34)
- The Role of Dopamine in the Collective Regulation of Foraging in Harvester Ants (2018) (33)
- American Society for Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) joint consensus statement on measurement to maintain and improve quality of enhanced recovery pathways for elective colorectal surgery (2017) (32)
- Ant Genetics: Reproductive Physiology, Worker Morphology, and Behavior. (2016) (31)
- Genetic caste determination in harvester ants: possible origin and maintenance by cyto-nuclear epistasis. (2006) (30)
- Regulation of harvester ant foraging as a closed-loop excitable system (2018) (29)
- Defenders of the Truth (2001) (29)
- Diversification and phylogeographic structure in widespread Azteca plant‐ants from the northern Neotropics (2012) (29)
- Experimental modulation of external microbiome affects nestmate recognition in harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) (2016) (28)
- Resources and the flexible allocation of work in the desert ant, Aphaenogaster cockerelli (2002) (27)
- Hydrocarbons on Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) Middens Guide Foragers to the Nest (2011) (26)
- Context-dependent expression of the foraging gene in field colonies of ants: the interacting roles of age, environment and task (2016) (24)
- The harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius) midden: refuse or boundary? (1984) (24)
- Effects of Vegetation Cover, Presence of a Native Ant Species, and Human Disturbance on Colonization by Argentine Ants (2012) (23)
- Aggression is task dependent in the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) (2013) (23)
- The interactive effects of climate, life history, and interspecific neighbours on mortality in a population of seed harvester ants (2004) (23)
- Brood production and lineage discrimination in the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus). (2006) (22)
- Variation and Change in Behavioral Ecology (1991) (21)
- Long-term dynamics of the distribution of the invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, and native ant taxa in northern California (2001) (21)
- Species-specific patterns in the social activities of harvester ant colonies (Pogonomyrmex) (1984) (20)
- Interactions of the cysticercoids of Hymenolepis diminuta and Raillietina cesticillus in their intermediate host, Tribolium confusum (1985) (20)
- A trade-off in task allocation between sensitivity to the environment and response time. (2001) (20)
- The Persistence of Role in Exterior Workers of the Harvester Ant,Pogonomyrmex Badius (1984) (20)
- Interactions Increase Forager Availability and Activity in Harvester Ants (2015) (20)
- The physiology of forager hydration and variation among harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) colonies in collective foraging behavior (2019) (19)
- Nest-plugging: interference competition in desert ants (Novomessor cockerelli and Pogonomyrmex barbatus) (1988) (19)
- Spatial organization and interactions of harvester ants during foraging activity (2017) (19)
- Individual Specialisation and Encounters Between Harvester Ant Colonies (1997) (19)
- Collective Wisdom of Ants. (2016) (18)
- Local Regulation of Trail Networks of the Arboreal Turtle Ant, Cephalotes goniodontus (2017) (17)
- A distributed algorithm to maintain and repair the trail networks of arboreal ants (2017) (17)
- Daily Rhythms in Social Activities of the Harvester Ant,Pogonomyrmex Badius (1983) (17)
- Collective search by ants in microgravity (2015) (17)
- The invasive Argentine ant Linepithema humile ( Hymenoptera : Formicidae ) in Northern California reserves : from foraging behavior to local spread (2013) (17)
- Group-Level Exploration Tactics in Fire Ants (1988) (16)
- Nutrient stores predict task behaviors in diverse ant species (2016) (14)
- Extended SSD VMAT treatment for total body irradiation (2018) (14)
- Discovery and synthesis of novel 4-aminopyrrolopyrimidine Tie-2 kinase inhibitors for the treatment of solid tumors. (2013) (14)
- Distributed Adaptive Search in T Cells: Lessons From Ants (2019) (14)
- The Effects of Proximity and Colony Age on Interspecific Interference Competition between the Desert Ants Pogonomyrmex barbatus and Aphaenogaster cockerelli (2002) (13)
- Modeling the spread of the Argentine ant into natural areas: Habitat suitability and spread from neighboring sites (2012) (12)
- Correction to: American Society for Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) joint consensus statement on perioperative fluid management within an enhanced recovery pathway for colorectal surgery (2018) (11)
- Cancer Ecology and Evolution: Positive interactions and system vulnerability. (2019) (11)
- Wittgenstein and ant-watching (1992) (11)
- Male parentage in dependent‐lineage populations of the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus (2007) (11)
- Protection Mutualisms and the Community: Geographic Variation in an Ant-Plant Symbiosis and the Consequences for Herbivores (2013) (11)
- Gene expression variation in the brains of harvester ant foragers is associated with collective behavior (2020) (11)
- Goals and Limitations of Modeling Collective Behavior in Biological Systems (2021) (9)
- Does an ecological advantage produce the asymmetric lineage ratio in a harvester ant population? (2013) (9)
- Do We Need More Ethograms (2010) (9)
- Soldier production under threat (1996) (9)
- Driving force: energy and climate strategies for China's motorization (2011) (8)
- Movement, Encounter Rate, and Collective Behavior in Ant Colonies (2020) (7)
- Foraging behavior and locomotion of the invasive Argentine ant from winter aggregations (2018) (6)
- The MutAnts Are Here (2017) (6)
- Approach to IAEA material-balance verification with intermittent inspection at the Portsmouth Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant (1984) (6)
- Improving fuel economy: A case study of the 1992 Honda Civic Hatchbacks : Energy and alternative fuels (1993) (5)
- Anternet: The regulation of harvester ant foraging and Internet congestion control (2012) (5)
- Better tired than lost: Turtle ant trail networks favor coherence over short edges (2019) (4)
- Special Feature: Interactions of Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology in Changing Environments (1991) (4)
- Multiyear drought exacerbates long‐term effects of climate on an invasive ant species (2021) (4)
- Steering a new course (1991) (4)
- Insights and opportunities in insect social behavior. (2019) (4)
- Rainfall, neighbors, and foraging: The dynamics of a population of red harvester ant colonies 1988‐2019 (2022) (3)
- Editorial: An Ecological Perspective on Decision-Making: Empirical and Theoretical Studies in Natural and Natural-Like Environments (2019) (3)
- Facing the Mirror: Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture:Facing the Mirror: Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture. (1999) (3)
- The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism and Environment (2000) (2)
- Two lineages that need each other (2017) (2)
- Measuring collective behavior: an ecological approach (2019) (2)
- The Dynamics of Group Behavior (1987) (2)
- Comment on Article by B. Cole (1991) (2)
- Understanding how particular natural systems operate without central control will reveal whether such systems share general properties. (2007) (2)
- IAEA verification experiment at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (1998) (2)
- Bursty Coordination in Online Communities (2019) (2)
- Sci-Thur PM - Colourful Interactions: Highlights 08: ARC TBI using Single-Step Optimized VMAT Fields (2016) (2)
- Variation and change in behavior: a comment on Loftus et al. (2021) (1)
- Toward a safer playground (1981) (1)
- Twitter in the ant nest: How does a colony organize its work? (2011) (1)
- Approach to IAEA material-balance verification at the Portsmouth Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant (1983) (1)
- A Model for Ant Trail Formation and its Convergence Properties (2020) (1)
- The Carbon Contained in Global Oils (2012) (1)
- International Safeguards at the Feed and Withdrawal Area of a Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Plant (1979) (1)
- In the Ant Colony: A Conversation with Deborah Gordon (1995) (1)
- Networking Ants: How do ants find the cake crumb you dropped?. (1997) (1)
- Tree Preference and Temporal Activity Patterns for a Native Ant Community in an Urbanized California Woodland (2021) (1)
- Corrigendum: Collective search by ants in microgravity (2015) (1)
- The Mailbox Computer System for the IAEA verification experiment on HEU downlending at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (2000) (1)
- The Evolution of Social Wasps.ByJames H Hunt. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $99.50 (hardcover); $44.50 (paper). xxi + 259 p; ill.; author and subject indexes. ISBN:978‐0‐19‐530785‐6 (hc); 978‐0‐19‐530797‐9 (pb). 2007. (2008) (1)
- Distributed algorithms from arboreal ants for the shortest path problem (2023) (1)
- Measurement of natural variation of neurotransmitter tissue content in red harvester ant brains among different colonies (2020) (1)
- Correction to: American Society for Enhanced Recovery (ASER) and Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) Joint Consensus Statement on Optimal Analgesia within an Enhanced Recovery Pathway for Colorectal Surgery: Part 2—From PACU to the Transition Home (2018) (1)
- Dad's not lost. (2004) (1)
- The red harvester ant (2022) (0)
- Critical thermal limits and temperature-dependent walking speed may mediate coexistence between the native winter ant (Prenolepis imparis) and the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithemahumile). (2023) (0)
- Corrections to Design of Selective, ATP-Competitive Inhibitors of Akt (2010) (0)
- Untangling data and theory (1993) (0)
- 6 Ant Evolution (2010) (0)
- Changing Oils, Changing Management (2016) (0)
- COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN ANIMAL GROUPS (2012) (0)
- Interaction Networks and the Regulation of Ant Colony Behavior (2011) (0)
- Technical support organization efforts in support of IAEA safeguards (1989) (0)
- Approach to IAEA verification of the nuclear-material balance at the Portsmouth Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant (GCEP) (1982) (0)
- Does an ecological advantage produce the asymmetric lineage ratio in a harvester ant population? (2013) (0)
- 7 Modeling Ant Behavior (2010) (0)
- Galaxies of the ants (2009) (0)
- The ecology and evolution of collective behavior (2020) (0)
- parallel processing in the antennal lobe of ants Distributed representation of social odors indicates (2015) (0)
- Arboreal Ants Suggest Surprising Algorithms for the Shortest Path Problem and its Variants (2020) (0)
- Sealing of process valves for the HEU downblending verification experiment at Portsmouth (1998) (0)
- Spatial and temporal partitioning and tree preference in California woodland ants (2019) (0)
- 3 Interaction Networks (2010) (0)
- Gene expression variation in the brains of harvester ant foragers is associated with collective behavior (2020) (0)
- From division of labor to the collective behavior of social insects (2015) (0)
- trees Duroia hirsuta ants in 'devil's gardens' is increased herbivory on schumanni Myrmelachista The devil to pay: a cost of mutualism with (2008) (0)
- 5 Relations with Neighbors (2010) (0)
- Plant defense, herbivory, and the growth of Cordia alliodora trees and their symbiotic Azteca ant colonies (2012) (0)
- 4 Colony Size (2010) (0)
- Natural selection on the regulation of foraging in harvester ants (2014) (0)
- The physiology of forager hydration and variation among harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) colonies in collective foraging behavior (2019) (0)
- 1 The Ant Colony as a Complex System (2010) (0)
- Nourishment and evolution in insect societies, J.H. Hunt, C.A. Nalepa (Eds.), in: Studies in Insect Biology. Westview Press (1994), 449, £59.50 hbk (xii) ISBN 0 8133 8439 7 (1995) (0)
- Following the Trail of the Harvester Ants: The Established Researcher (2019) (0)
- From the simple actions of many individuals, an ant colony generates a complex society. How does the colony do it? (2016) (0)
- Individual Variation Does Not Regulate Foraging Response to Humidity in Harvester Ant Colonies (2022) (0)
- Addendum: The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies (2017) (0)
- The beauty of ant antics (2010) (0)
- Idle Ants Have a Role (2015) (0)
- The Group Context in Role Switching in Harvester Ants (2019) (0)
- Collective behavior in ants and engineered networks (2016) (0)
- A distributed algorithm to maintain and repair the trail networks of arboreal ants (2018) (0)
- Look to the ant, thou sluggard (1994) (0)
- Methods for cost-benefit-risk analysis of material-accounting upgrades (1988) (0)
- 2 Colony Organization (2010) (0)
- Organization of Insect Societies: From Genome to Sociocomplexity.Edited byJürgen Gadau and Jennifer Fewell; foreword by, Edward O. Wilson. Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press. $79.95. xi + 617 p.; ill.; index. 978‐0‐674‐03125‐8. 2009. (2009) (0)
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