Publications

 

Hölldobler B, Kwapich CL (In press, released date: 2022). The Guests of Ants: How myrmecophiles interact with their hosts. Belknap Press, an imprint of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Kwapich CL (In revision, 2021). Green anole lizards (Anolis carolinensis) deposit eggs in nests of the trap jaw ant, Odontomachus brunneus. doi:10.32942/osf.io/jw7rn.

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Lundgren EJ, Moeller K, Michael Cline, Mahoney SM,  Kwapich CL (under review, 2021). Apache Cicada nymphs as a dominant food source for desert-dwelling black bears (Ursus americanus) along a Sonoran Desert river.

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Kwapich CL, Hölldobler B, (2019). Destruction of spiderwebs and rescue of ensnared nestmates by the granivorous desert ant Veromessor pergandei. The American Naturalist.  https://doi.org/10.1086/704338

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Kwapich, CL (2019). Ant colonies benefit when nestmates get tangled. American Society of Naturalists forthcoming papers blog.

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Hölldobler B, Kwapich CL (2019) Behavior and exocrine glands in the myrmecophilous beetle Dinarda dentata (Gravenhorst, 1806) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). PLoS ONE 14(1): e0210524. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210524

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Hölldobler B, Kwapich CL, Haight K (2018). Behavior and exocrine glands of the myrmecophilous beetle Lomechusoides strumosus (Fabricius, 1775) (Formerly Lomechusa strumosa) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleochorinae). PLoS ONE.13(7): e0200309. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200309

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Kwapich CL, Valentini G, Hölldobler, B (2018). Non-additive effects of body-size on nest architecture in a polymorphic ant species. Issue: Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 373:1753. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0235  LINK

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Gibson AH, Kwapich CL, Lang M. Chapter 1: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century (2018) Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution: Historical and Conceptual Issues. Book Chapter, edited by Jeler, Ciprian, Palgrave Pivot Publishing, XI:1-151, ISBN 978-3-319-78676-6

 

Hölldobler, B., Kwapich, C.L (2017). Amphotis marginata (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) a highwayman of the ant Lasius fuliginosus. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0180847. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180847

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Kwapich, C.L., Gadau, J., Hölldobler, B. (2017).  Ecological and genetic basis of annual worker production in a desert seed harvesting ant (Veromessor pergandei). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 71: 110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-017-2333-1  PDF

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Tschinkel W.R., Kwapich, C.L. (2016). The Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius, relies on germination to consume large seeds. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166907

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Kwapich, C.L., Tschinkel, W.R. (2016). Limited flexibility and unusual longevity shape forager allocation in the Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius), Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology,  Special Issue: Integrative Analysis of Division of Labor 10.1007/s00265-015-2039-1  PDF   LINK  

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Tschinkel, W.R., Rink, W.J., Kwapich, C.L. (2015).  Sequential Subterranean Transport of Excavated Sand and Foraged Seeds in Nests of the Harvester Ant, Pogonomyrmex badius. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0139922. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139922  LINK

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Mason, K., Kwapich, C. L., Tschinkel W.R. (2015). Respiration, Worker Body Size, Tempo and Activity in Whole Colonies of Ants. Physiological Entomology DOI: 10.1111/phen.12099. PDF

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Kwapich, C.L. (2014). The influence of  demography, development and death on labor allocation in the Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius). Doctoral Dissertation. Retrieved from Florida State University digital repository, http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-9203

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Gibson, A. H., Kwapich, C.L., Lang, M. (2013). The Roots of Multilevel Selection Theory: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 35:4. LINK 

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Rink, W.J., Dunbar, J.S., Tschinkel, W.R., Kwapich, C.L., Repp, A., Stanon, W., Thulman, D.K. (2013). Subterranean transport and deposition of quartz by ants in sandy sites relevant to age overestimation in optical luminescence dating.  Journal of Archaeological Science. 40:4, 2217-2226. PDF

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Kwapich, C.L., Tschinkel, W.R. (2013). Demography, demand, death and the seasonal allocation of labor in the Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. LINK

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Tschinkel, W.R., Murdock, T, King, J.R, Kwapich, C.L. (2012). Ant distribution in relation to ground water in north Florida pine flatwoods. Journal of Insect Science, 12:114.  LINK

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