selected scholarly activity
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academic article
- WASPnest: a worldwide assessment of social Polistine nesting behavior. Ecology. 99:2405-2405. 2018
- Social interactions shape individual and collective personality in social spiders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 285:20181366-20181366. 2018
- Social tipping points in animal societies in response to heat stress. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2:1298-1305. 2018
- The contribution of shelter from rain to the success of pit-building predators in urban habitats. Animal Behaviour. 142:139-145. 2018
- The primary case is not enough: Variation among individuals, groups and social networks modify bacterial transmission dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology. 87:369-378. 2018
- Polistes metricus queens exhibit personality variation and behavioral syndromes. Acta Zoologica Sinica Current Zoology. 64:45-52. 2018
- Selection for Collective Aggressiveness Favors Social Susceptibility in Social Spiders. Current Biology. 28:100-105.e4. 2018
- Group dynamics and relocation decisions of a trap-building predator are differentially affected by biotic and abiotic factors. Acta Zoologica Sinica Current Zoology. 63:zow120-zow120. 2017
- Intraindividual Behavioral Variability Predicts Foraging Outcome in a Beach-dwelling Jumping Spider. Scientific Reports. 7:18063. 2017
- Smaller and bolder prey snails have higher survival in staged encounters with the sea star Pisaster giganteus. Acta Zoologica Sinica Current Zoology. 63:zow116-zow116. 2017
- Participation in cooperative prey capture and the benefits gained from it are associated with individual personality. Acta Zoologica Sinica Current Zoology. 63:zow097-zow097. 2017
- The multidimensional behavioural hypervolumes of two interacting species predict their space use and survival. Animal Behaviour. 132:129-136. 2017
- Exposure to predators reduces collective foraging aggressiveness and eliminates its relationship with colony personality composition. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 71. 2017
- Behavioural hypervolumes of spider communities predict community performance and disbandment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 283:20161409-20161409. 2016
- Foliar bacteria and soil fertility mediate seedling performance: a new and cryptic dimension of niche differentiation. Ecology. 97:2998-3008. 2016
- Cuticular bacteria appear detrimental to social spiders in mixed but not monoculture exposure. Acta Zoologica Sinica Current Zoology. 62:377-384. 2016
- Personality composition alters the transmission of cuticular bacteria in social groups. Biology Letters. 12:20160297-20160297. 2016
- Individual differences in boldness influence patterns of social interactions and the transmission of cuticular bacteria among group-mates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 283:20160457-20160457. 2016
- The Achilles' heel hypothesis: misinformed keystone individuals impair collective learning and reduce group success. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 283:20152888-20152888. 2016
- Animal personality in a foundation species drives community divergence and collapse in the wild. Journal of Animal Ecology. 84:1461-1468. 2015
- Warring arthropod societies: Social spider colonies can delay annihilation by predatory ants via reduced apparency and increased group size. Behavioural Processes European Journal of Pharmacology European Journal of Pharmacology - Molecular Pharmacology Section. 119:14-21. 2015
- The legacy effects of keystone individuals on collective behaviour scale to how long they remain within a group. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282:20151766-20151766. 2015
- Pruitt & Goodnight reply. Nature Nature: New biology. 524:E4-E5. 2015
- Genetic Changes to a Transcriptional Silencer Element Confers Phenotypic Diversity within and between Drosophila Species. PLoS Genetics. 11:e1005279-e1005279. 2015
- Similar patterns of frequency-dependent selection on animal personalities emerge in three species of social spiders. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 28:1248-1256. 2015
- Personality composition is more important than group size in determining collective foraging behaviour in the wild. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281:20141424-20141424. 2014
- Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions. Nature Nature: New biology. 514:359-362. 2014
- Persistent social interactions beget more pronounced personalities in a desert-dwelling social spider. Biology Letters. 10:20140419-20140419. 2014
- Animal personality aligns task specialization and task proficiency in a spider society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111:9533-9537. 2014
- Evidence of social niche construction: persistent and repeated social interactions generate stronger personalities in a social spider. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281:20133166-20133166. 2014
- A real-time eco-evolutionary dead-end strategy is mediated by the traits of lineage progenitors and interactions with colony invaders. Ecology Letters. 16:879-886. 2013
- Predator and prey activity levels jointly influence the outcome of long-term foraging bouts. Behavioral Ecology. 24:1205-1210. 2013
- Iterative Evolution of Increased Behavioral Variation Characterizes the Transition to Sociality in Spiders and Proves Advantageous. American Naturalist. 180:496-510. 2012
- Behavioural traits of colony founders affect the life history of their colonies. Ecology Letters. 15:1026-1032. 2012
- Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes. Ecology Letters. 15:278-289. 2012
- Behavioral Types of Predator and Prey Jointly Determine Prey Survival: Potential Implications for the Maintenance of Within-Species Behavioral Variation. American Naturalist. 179:217-227. 2012
- Intraspecific trait variants determine the nature of interspecific interactions in a habitat-forming species. Ecology. 92:1902-1908. 2011