| Information transfer in head-on encounters between leaf-cutting ant workers: food, trail condition or orientation cues? AG Farji-Brener, S Amador-Vargas, F Chinchilla, S Escobar, S Cabrera, ... Animal Behaviour 79 (2), 343-349, 2010 | 76 | 2010 |
| Blind trust in unblinded observation in ecology, evolution, and behavior MR Kardish, UG Mueller, S Amador-Vargas, EI Dietrich, R Ma, B Barrett, ... Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3, 51, 2015 | 68 | 2015 |
| Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes S Amador-Vargas, W Gronenberg, WT Wcislo, U Mueller Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1801), 20142502, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
| Social life and sanitary risks: evolutionary and current ecological conditions determine waste management in leaf-cutting ants AG Farji-Brener, L Elizalde, H Fernández-Marín, S Amador-Vargas Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1831), 20160625, 2016 | 57 | 2016 |
| Leaf-folding response of a sensitive plant shows context-dependent behavioral plasticity S Amador-Vargas, M Dominguez, G León, B Maldonado, J Murillo, ... Plant Ecology, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| Branching angles reflect a trade‐off between reducing trail maintenance costs or travel distances in leaf‐cutting ants AG Farji-Brener, F Chinchilla, MN Umaña, ME Ocasio-Torres, ... Ecology 96 (2), 510-517, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
| Slope orientation enhances the nurse effect of a paramo shrub, Hypericum irazuense (Hypericaceae) in Costa Rica AG Farji-Brener, FA Chinchilla, A Magrach, V Romero, M Ríos, M Velilla, ... Journal of tropical ecology 25 (3), 331-335, 2009 | 16 | 2009 |
| Spartan defense in the Thermopylae pass: Strategic defense by aggregations of Pseudomyrmex spinicola (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on the trunk of Acacia collinsii (Mimosaceae) S Amador-Vargas Insectes Sociaux 55, 241-245, 2008 | 13 | 2008 |
| Behavioral responses of acacia ants correlate with age and location on the host plant S Amador-Vargas Insectes sociaux 59, 341-350, 2012 | 12 | 2012 |
| Plasticity in extended phenotypes: how the antlion Myrmeleon crudelis adjusts the pit traps depending on biotic and abiotic conditions AG Farji-Brener, S Amador-Vargas Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 66 (1-2), 41-47, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
| Run, robber, run: parasitic acacia ants use speed and evasion to steal food from ant‐defended trees S AMADOR‐VARGAS Physiological entomology 37 (4), 323-329, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| Hierarchy of hypotheses or cascade of predictions? A comment on Heger et al. (2013) AG Farji-Brener, S Amador-Vargas AMBIO, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
| True bugs living on ant-defended acacias: evasion strategies and ant species preferences, in Costa Rica and Panama J Coronado-Rivera, SD Valle, S Amador-Vargas Revista de Biología Tropical 68 (2), 415-425, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Acacia trees with parasitic ants have fewer and less spacious spines than trees with mutualistic ants S Amador-Vargas, J Dyer, N Arnold, L Cavanaugh, E Sánchez-Brenes The Science of Nature 107, 1-5, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Plant killing by mutualistic ants increases the density of host species seedlings in the dry forest of Costa Rica S Amador-Vargas, JD Majer Psyche-Journal of Entomology 2012, 28, 2011 | 6 | 2011 |
| Blind trust in unblinded observation in ecology, evolution, and behavior. Front Ecol Evol 3: 51 MR Kardish, UG Mueller, S Amador-Vargas, EI Dietrich, R Ma, B Barrett, ... | 5 | 2015 |
| Association patterns of swollen‐thorn acacias with three ant species and other organisms in a dry forest of Panama S Amador‐Vargas, VS Orribarra, A Portugal‐Loayza, H Fernández‐Marín Biotropica 53 (2), 560-566, 2021 | 4 | 2021 |
| Ability to reorient is weakly correlated with central-place versus non-central-place foraging in acacia ants S Amador-Vargas, UG Mueller Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71, 1-13, 2017 | 4 | 2017 |
| Plant killing by mutualistic ants increases the density of host species seedlings in the dry forest of Costa Rica S Amador-Vargas Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 2012 (1), 491592, 2012 | 4 | 2012 |
| Short-term plasticity and variation in acacia ant-rewards under different conditions of ant occupancy and herbivory F Gijsman, Y González, M Guevara, S Amador-Vargas The Science of Nature 108 (4), 31, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
