Tropical Rainforest Ecology

List of Publications from Course Work

(* indicates students participants)

Cutraro, J.L.*, A.Y. Ercelawn*, E.G. LeBrun*, E.W. Lonsdorf*, H.A. Norton*, and M.J. McKone. 1998. Importance of pollen and nectar in flower choice by hummingbird flower mites, Proctolaelaps kirmsei (Mesostigmata: Ascidae). International Journal of Acarology 24:345-351.

Garrettson, M.*, J.F. Stetzel*, B.S. Halpern*, D.J. Hearn*, B.T. Lucey*, and M.J. McKone. 1998. Diversity and abundance of understorey plants on active and abandoned nests of leaf-cutting ants (Atta cephalotes) in a Costa Rican rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 14:17-26.

Hinman, K.*, H. Throop*, K. Adams*, A. Dake*, K. McLauchlan*, and M.J. McKone. 1997. Predation by free-ranging birds on partial coral-snake mimics: the importance of ring width and color. Evolution 51:1011-1014.

Linksvayer, T.A.*, A.C. McCall*, R.M. Jensen*, C.M. Marshall*, J.W. Miner*, and M.J. McKone. 2002. The function of hitchhiking behavior in the leaf-cutting ant Atta cephalotes. Biotropica 34:93-100.

Paciorek, C.J.*, B.R. Moyer*, R.A. Levin*, and S.L. Halpern*. 1995. Pollen consumption by the hummingbird flower mite Proctolaelaps kirmsei and possible fitness effects on Hamelia patens. Biotropica 27:258-262.