Peer-reviewed publications

McGlynn, T.P., R.M. Fawcett, and D.A. Clark. Litter biomass and nutrient determinants of ant density, nest size and growth in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest. In press, Biotropica.  preprint

McGlynn, T.P.  2008. Natural history education for students heading into the century of biology.  American Biology Teacher 70: 109-111. pdf

McGlynn, T.P.  2007. Serial monodomy in ants: an antipredator strategy?  Ecological Entomology 32: 621-626. pdf

Dunn, R.R., Sanders, N.J., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Laurent, E., Lessard, J-P., Agosti, D., Andersen, A.N., Bruhl, C., Cerdá, X, Ellison, A., Fisher, B., Gibb, H. Gotelli, N., Gove, A., Guenard, B., Jandal, M., Kaspari, M., Longino, J.T., Majer J., McGlynn, T.P., Menke, S., Parr, C., Philpott, S., Pfeiffer, M., Retana, J., Suarez, A., and Vasconcelos, H.  2007. Global Ant Biodiversity and Biogeography – A New Database and its possibilities.  Myrmecological News 10: 77-83. pdf

McGlynn, T.P., R.R. Dunn, D.J. Salinas, T.E. Wood, D. Lawrence, and D.A. Clark.  2007.  Phosphorus limits tropical rainforest litter fauna.  Biotropica: 39: 50-53.  pdf

McGlynn, T.P. 2006.  Ants on the move: Resource limitation of a litter-nesting ant community in Costa Rica. Biotropica 38: 419-427. pdf

McGlynn, T.P., R. Carr, J. Carson, and J. Buma.  2004.  Frequent nest relocation in the ant Aphaenogaster araneoides: resources, competition, and natural enemies.  Oikos 106: 611-621. pdf

Roberts, D., and T.P. McGlynn.  2004. Tetramorium insolens Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a new record for Mauritius, Indian Ocean.  African Entomology 12: 265-267. pdf

McGlynn, T.P., M.D. Shotell, and M.S. Kelly. 2003. Responding to a variable environment: home range, foraging behavior, and nest relocation in the Costa Rican rainforest ant Aphaenogaster araneoides. Journal of Insect Behavior 16: 687-701. pdf

McGlynn, T.P., and J.P. Owen.  2002.  Food supplementation alters caste allocation in a natural population of Pheidole flavens, a dimorphic leaf-litter dwelling ant. Insectes Sociaux 49: 8-14. pdf

McGlynn, T.P., J.R. Hoover, G.S. Jasper, M.S. Kelly, A.M. Polis, C.M. Spangler, and B.J. Watson. 2002.  Environmental heterogeneity affects demography of the Central American ant Aphaenogaster araneoides.  Journal of Tropical Ecology 18: 231-244. pdf

McGlynn, T.P.  2000.  Do Lanchester's laws of combat describe competition among ants?  Behavioral Ecology 11: 11: 686-690. pdf

McGlynn, T.P., and S.E. Kirksey.  2000.  The effect of food presentation and microhabitat upon resource monopoly in a ground-foraging ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) community.  Revista de Biologia Tropical 48: 629-642.  pdf

Schultz, T.R., and T.P. McGlynn. 2000. The Interaction of Ants with Other Organisms. Pp. 35-44, in: Agosti, D., Majer, J., Alonso, E. and Schultz, T., (eds.). Ants: Standard Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity. Biological Diversity Handbook Series. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington D.C., 280pp. pdf

McGlynn, T.P.  1999.  Non-native ants are smaller than related native ants.  American Naturalist 154: 690-699. pdf

McGlynn, T.P.  1999.  The worldwide transport of ants: geographic distribution and ecological invasions.  Journal of Biogeography 26: 535-548. pdf

McGlynn, T.P., and C.D. Kelley.  1999.  Distribution of a Costa Rican lowland wet forest velvet worm (Onychophora: Peripatidae).  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 92: 53-55. pdf

Breed, M.D., T.P. McGlynn, E. Stocker, and A.N. Klein.  1999.  Thief workers and variation in nestmate recognition behavior in a ponerine ant, Ectatomma ruidum.  Insectes Sociaux 46:327-333.

Breed, M.D., T.P. McGlynn, M.D. Sanctuary, E. Stocker, and R. Cruz.  1999.  Distribution and abundance of several Meliponine species in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest.  Journal of Tropical Ecology 15: 765-777. pdf

McGlynn, T.P.  1999.  Other ant invaders.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14: 489. pdf

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