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O'Donnell, S., & Baudier, K. M. (2023) Significant colony differences in thermal tolerances and decoupling of high and low critical temperatures in the army ant Eciton burchellii parvispinum.
Ecological Entomology
.
Ostwald, M. M., Tretter, S., Buellesbach, J., Calixto, J. M., Fewell, J. H., Gadau, J., & Baudier, K. M. (2023). Body mass and cuticular hydrocarbon profiles, but not queen number, underlie worker desiccation resistance in a facultatively polygynous harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex californicus).
Journal of Comparative Physiology B
, 1-9.
Baudier KM*, Ostwald MM*, Calixto JM, Cossio FJ, Fewell JH. (2022) Social factors in heat survival: Multi-queen desert ant colonies have higher and more uniform heat tolerance.
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
. 95(5):379-389
.
(*Co-first authors)
Baudier KM, Bennett MM, Barrett M, Cossio FJ, Wu R, O’Donnell S, Fewell JH
(2022) Soldier neural architecture is flexibly modality-specialized but poorly predicted by repertoire size in the stingless bee
Tetragonisca angustula. The Journal of Comparative Neurology.
530(4):672-682
.
Bennett MM, Baudier KM (2021) The night shift: Nest closure and guarding behaviors in the stingless bee,
Tetragonisca angustula. Journal of Insect Behavior.
34: 162-172.
Baudier KM, Pavlic TP, (2020) Incidental interactions among Neotropical army-ant colonies are met with self-organized walls of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Myrmecological News.
30: 251-258
.
Baudier KM, Bennett MM, Ostwald MM, Hart S, Pavlic TP, Fewell JH (2020) Age-based changes in kairomone response mediate task partitioning in stingless bee soldiers (
Tetragonisca angustula
).
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
. 74:125.
Welch L, Baudier KM, Harrison J (2020) Impact of temperature and time of day on leaf intake and ant speed in
Atta colombica. Insectes Sociaux.
67:213-219.
Baudier KM
, O’Donnell S. (2020). Rain shadow effects predict population differences in thermal tolerance of leaf-cutting ant workers (
Atta cephalotes
).
Biotropica
.
52(1): 113-119.
Baudier KM, Ostwald MM, Grüter C, Segers FH, Roubik DW, Pavlic TP, Pratt SC, Fewell JH (2019). Changing of the guard: mixed specialization and flexibility in nest defense (
Tetragonisca angustula
).
Behavioral Ecology
. 30(4): 1041-1049.
Baudier KM
,
D’Amelio CL, Sulger E, O’Connor MP O’Donnell S (2019) Plastic collective endothermy in a complex animal society (army ant bivouacs:
Eciton burchellii parvispinum
),
Ecography
. 42(4): 730-739.
[Cover Article]
Baudier KM, S O’Donnell (2018). Complex body size differences in thermal tolerance among army ant workers (
Eciton burchellii parvispinum
).
Journal of Thermal Biology.
78: 277-280.
Ostwald MM, Ruzi SA, Baudier KM (2018) Ambush predation of stingless bees (
Tetragonisca angustula
) by the solitary-foraging ant
Ectatomma tuberculatum.
Journal of Insect Behavior,
31(5): 503–509.
Baudier KM, D’Amelio CL, Malhotra R, O'Connor MP, O'Donnell S (2018) Extreme insolation: climatic variation shapes the evolution of thermal tolerance at multiple scales.
The American Naturalist,
192(3): 347-359.
O'Donnell S, Baudier KM, Fiocca K, Marenda DR. (
2018) Erythritol ingestion impairs adult reproduction and causes larval mortality in
Drosophila melanogaster
fruit flies (Diptera: Drosophilidae).
Journal of applied entomology,
142 (1-2): 37-42
.
Baudier KM, O'Donnell S (2017) Weak links: how colonies counter the social costs of individual variation in thermal physiology.
Current Opinion in Insect Science,
22:85-91.
Baudier KM, O’Donnell S (
2016) Structure and thermal biology of subterranean army ant bivouacs in a tropical montane forest (
Labidus praedator
).
Insectes Sociaux,
63(3): 467-476.
O’Donnell S, Baudier KM, Marenda DR (
2016)
Non-nutritive polyol sweeteners differ in insecticidal activity when ingested by adult Drosophila melanogaster.
Journal of Insect Science,
16(1): 1–3
Baudier KM, Mudd AE, Erickson SC, O'Donnell S. (2015) Microhabitat and body size effects on heat tolerance: implications for responses to climate change (army ants: Formicidae, Ecitoninae).
Journal of Animal Ecology
, 84(5): 1322-1330.
Baudier KM, Kaschock-Marenda SD, Patel N, Diangelus KL, O'Donnell S, Marenda DR. (2014) Erythritol, a non-nutritive sugar alcohol sweetener and the main component of Truvia®, is a palatable ingested insecticide.
PLoS ONE,
9(6): e98949.
Conference Proceedings
Baudier KM, Pavlic TP (2022) Multi-level instrumentation of bivouac thermoregulation: current methods and future directions.
Artificial Life and Robotics
. 27:308–315.
Strickland LG, Baudier KM, Bowers KP, Pavlic TP, Pippin CP (
2019) Bio-inspired role allocation of heterogeneous teams in a site defense task, Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. 9:139-151
Book Chapters
Baudier KM (2019). Brood Stimulation Hypothesis. In
Encyclopedia of Social Insects
, ed. Starr CK. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International
.
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