Sabrina Amador Vargas (0000-0001-8738-4876)

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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Panama, PA

2018-06-25 to present

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A potential wintering site of Swainson's Hawks (<i>Buteo swainsoni</i>) in the North Pacific plains of Costa Rica with notes on their behavior

The Wilson Journal of Ornithology

2024 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1676/23-00026

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Carrying oversized loads may create pheromone “blind spots” in leafcutter ants

2024-12-16 | Preprint

DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.11.628008

Contributors: Katherine Porras-Brenes; Sabrina Amador-Vargas

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Horse-hair fungus used in bird nests alters the behaviour of acacia ants

Animal Behaviour

2024-10 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.07.019

Contributors: Rhayza Cortés-Romay; Sabrina Amador Vargas

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Dataset Acacia Ants and Marasmioid Rhyzomorph

2024-08-29 | Dataset | Author

DOI: 10.25573/data.22303825

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Contributors: Sabrina Amador Vargas; Rhayza Cortés-Romay

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Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas?

PeerJ

2023-06-13 | Journal article

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15436

Contributors: Alejandro Farji-Brener; Sabrina Amador-Vargas

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Scaling of indirect defences in Central American swollen-thorn acacias

Journal of Tropical Ecology

2022-11 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1017/S0266467422000293

Contributors: Sabrina Amador-Vargas; Yorlenis González; Maikol Guevara; Finote Gijsman

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Three neotropical bird species shift nest‐site preferences from swollen‐thorn acacias to other sites in human‐altered habitats

Biotropica

2022-07 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1111/btp.13138

Contributors: Sabrina Amador‐Vargas; Katherine Porras‐Brenes

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Nestmate interference in acacia ants varies with colony size and task specialization

Animal Behaviour

2021-11 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.08.026

Contributors: S. Amador-Vargas; W.T. Wcislo

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Short-term plasticity and variation in acacia ant-rewards under different conditions of ant occupancy and herbivory

The Science of Nature

2021-08 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1007/s00114-021-01738-w

Contributors: Finote Gijsman; Yorlenis González; Maikol Guevara; Sabrina Amador-Vargas

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Association patterns of swollen‐thorn acacias with three ant species and other organisms in a dry forest of Panama

Biotropica

2021-03 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1111/btp.12899

Contributors: Sabrina Amador‐Vargas; Vivian Sara Orribarra; Ana Portugal‐Loayza; Hermógenes Fernández‐Marín

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True bugs living on ant-defended acacias: evasion strategies and ant species preferences, in Costa Rica and Panama

Revista de Biología Tropical

2020 | Journal article

DOI: 10.15517/rbt.v68i2.38505

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Acacia trees with parasitic ants have fewer and less spacious spines than trees with mutualistic ants

The Science of Nature

2020-02 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1007/s00114-019-1647-4

Contributors: Sabrina Amador-Vargas; Jared Dyer; Natalie Arnold; Leah Cavanaugh; Elena Sánchez-Brenes

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Plasticity in extended phenotypes: how the antlion Myrmeleon crudelis adjusts the pit traps depending on biotic and abiotic conditions

Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution

2019 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1163/22244662-20191055

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Plant killing by Neotropical acacia ants: ecology, decision‐making, and head morphology

Biotropica

2019-09 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1111/btp.12695

Contributors: Sabrina Amador‐Vargas

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Ability to reorient is weakly correlated with central-place versus non-central-place foraging in acacia ants

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

2017-02 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2262-4

Contributors: Sabrina Amador-Vargas; Ulrich G. Mueller

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Social life and sanitary risks: evolutionary and current ecological conditions determine waste management in leaf-cutting ants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

2016 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0625

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Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

2015 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2502

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Blind trust in unblinded observation in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Front. Ecol. Evol.

2015-05 | Journal article

DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00051

Contributors: Melissa R. Kardish; Ulrich G. Mueller; Sabrina Amador-Vargas; Emma I. Dietrich; Rong Ma; Brian Barrett; Chi-Chun Fang

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Branching angles reflect a trade-off between reducing trail maintenance costs or travel distances in leaf-cutting ants

Ecology

2015-02 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1890/14-0220.1

Contributors: Alejandro Gustavo Farji-Brener; Federico Chinchilla; María Natalia Umaña; María Elena Ocasio-Torres; Alexander Chauta-Mellizo; Diana Acosta-Rojas; Sofía Marinaro; Mónica de Torres Curth; Sabrina Amador-Vargas

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Hierarchy of hypotheses or cascade of predictions? A comment on Heger et al. (2013)

AMBIO

2014-08 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1007/s13280-014-0549-0

Contributors: Alejandro G. Farji-Brener; Sabrina Amador-Vargas

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Leaf-folding response of a sensitive plant shows context-dependent behavioral plasticity

Plant Ecol

2014-08 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1007/s11258-014-0401-4

Contributors: Sabrina Amador-Vargas; Marisol Dominguez; Gunnary León; Belén Maldonado; Johanna Murillo; Gabriel L. Vides

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Plant Killing by Mutualistic Ants Increases the Density of Host Species Seedlings in the Dry Forest of Costa Rica

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

2012 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1155/2012/491592

Contributors: Sabrina Amador-Vargas

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Run, robber, run: parasitic acacia ants use speed and evasion to steal food from ant-defended trees

Physiological Entomology

2012-07 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2012.00844.x

Contributors: SABRINA AMADOR-VARGAS

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Behavioral responses of acacia ants correlate with age and location on the host plant

Insect. Soc.

2012-03 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1007/s00040-012-0226-x

Contributors: S. Amador-Vargas

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Ant body posture: gaster curling increases ant speed

Ecological Entomology

2011-09 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01311.x

Contributors: SABRINA AMADOR-VARGAS; JUAN ANDRÉS MARTÍNEZ; PAOLA GIRALDO-BELTRÁN; ROSA MARÍA GONZÁLEZ; SETH RIFKIN; VICTOR GAMARRA-TOLEDO

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Slope orientation enhances the nurse effect of a paramo shrub, Hypericum irazuense (Hypericaceae) in Costa Rica

J. Trop. Ecol.

2009-04-01 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1017/s0266467409005999

Contributors: Alejandro G. Farji-Brener; Federico A. Chinchilla; Ainhoa Magrach; Víctor Romero; Marcos Ríos; Marianela Velilla; José Manuel Serrano; Sabrina Amador-Vargas

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Spartan defense in the Thermopylae pass: Strategic defense by aggregations of Pseudomyrmex spinicola (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on the trunk of Acacia collinsii (Mimosaceae)

Insect. Soc.

2008-05 | Journal article

DOI: 10.1007/s00040-008-1000-y

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A potential wintering site of Swainson's Hawks (<i>Buteo swainsoni</i>) in the North Pacific plains of Costa Rica with notes on their behavior

Carrying oversized loads may create pheromone “blind spots” in leafcutter ants

Horse-hair fungus used in bird nests alters the behaviour of acacia ants

Dataset Acacia Ants and Marasmioid Rhyzomorph

Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas?

Scaling of indirect defences in Central American swollen-thorn acacias

Three neotropical bird species shift nest‐site preferences from swollen‐thorn acacias to other sites in human‐altered habitats

Nestmate interference in acacia ants varies with colony size and task specialization

Short-term plasticity and variation in acacia ant-rewards under different conditions of ant occupancy and herbivory

Association patterns of swollen‐thorn acacias with three ant species and other organisms in a dry forest of Panama

True bugs living on ant-defended acacias: evasion strategies and ant species preferences, in Costa Rica and Panama

Acacia trees with parasitic ants have fewer and less spacious spines than trees with mutualistic ants

Plasticity in extended phenotypes: how the antlion Myrmeleon crudelis adjusts the pit traps depending on biotic and abiotic conditions

Plant killing by Neotropical acacia ants: ecology, decision‐making, and head morphology

Ability to reorient is weakly correlated with central-place versus non-central-place foraging in acacia ants

Social life and sanitary risks: evolutionary and current ecological conditions determine waste management in leaf-cutting ants

Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes

Blind trust in unblinded observation in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Branching angles reflect a trade-off between reducing trail maintenance costs or travel distances in leaf-cutting ants

Hierarchy of hypotheses or cascade of predictions? A comment on Heger et al. (2013)

Leaf-folding response of a sensitive plant shows context-dependent behavioral plasticity

Plant Killing by Mutualistic Ants Increases the Density of Host Species Seedlings in the Dry Forest of Costa Rica

Run, robber, run: parasitic acacia ants use speed and evasion to steal food from ant-defended trees

Behavioral responses of acacia ants correlate with age and location on the host plant

Ant body posture: gaster curling increases ant speed

Slope orientation enhances the nurse effect of a paramo shrub, Hypericum irazuense (Hypericaceae) in Costa Rica

Spartan defense in the Thermopylae pass: Strategic defense by aggregations of Pseudomyrmex spinicola (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on the trunk of Acacia collinsii (Mimosaceae)

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