Amador-Vargas, Sabrina
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute staff
0000-0001-8738-4876
Amador-Vargas, Sabrina
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute staff
Behavioral ecology
Animal behavior
Positions
- Research Biologist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 2018 -
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Vargas, Sabrina Amador. 2024. "A potential wintering site of Swainson's Hawks (Buteo swainsoni) in the North Pacific plains of Costa Rica with notes on their behavior." The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 135, (4) 575–581. https://doi.org/10.1676/23-00026. 2024
- Farji-Brener, Alejandro and Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2023. "Collateral damage: has the COVID-19 pandemic more strongly impacted medical research than other scientific areas?" Peerj, 11. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15436. 2023
- Amador-Vargas, Sabrina, González, Yorlenis, Guevara, Maikol, and Gijsman, Finote. 2022. "Scaling of indirect defences in Central American swollen-thorn acacias." Journal of Tropical Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467422000293. 2022
- Amador‐Vargas, Sabrina and Porras‐Brenes, Katherine. 2022. "Three neotropical bird species shift nest‐site preferences from swollen‐thorn acacias to other sites in human‐altered habitats." Biotropica, 54, (4) 1071–1080. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13138. 2022
- Amador-Vargas, Sabrina, Orribarra, Vivian Sara, Portugal-Loayza, Ana, and Fernandez-Marin, Hermogenes. 2021. "Association patterns of swollen-thorn acacias with three ant species and other organisms in a dry forest of Panama." Biotropica, 53, (2) 560–566. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12899. 2021
- Amador-Vargas, S. and Wcislo, W. T. 2021. "Nestmate interference in acacia ants varies with colony size and task specialization." Animal Behaviour, 181 151–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.08.026. 2021
- Gijsman, Finote, Gonzalez, Yorlenis, Guevara, Maikol, and Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2021. "Short-term plasticity and variation in acacia ant-rewards under different conditions of ant occupancy and herbivory." The Science of Nature, 108, (4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-021-01738-w. 2021
- Coronado-Rivera, James, Solís-Del Valle, Marianela, and Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2020. "True bugs living on ant-defended acacias: evasion strategies and ant species preferences, in Costa Rica and Panama." Revista de Biología Tropical, 68, (2) 415–425. https://doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v68i2.38505. 2020
- Amador-Vargas, Sabrina, Dyer, Jared, Arnold, Natalie, Cavanaugh, Leah, and Sánchez-Brenes, Elena. 2019. "Acacia trees with parasitic ants have fewer and less spacious spines than trees with mutualistic ants." The Science of Nature, 107, (1) 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-019-1647-4. 2019
- Amador‐Vargas, Sabrina. 2019. "Plant killing by Neotropical acacia ants: ecology, decision-making, and head morphology." Biotropica, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12695. 2019
- Farji-Brener, Alejandro and Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2019. "Plasticity in extended phenotypes: how the antlion Myrmeleon crudelis adjusts the pit traps depending on biotic and abiotic conditions." Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1163/22244662-20191055. 2019
- Farji-Brener, Alejandro, Elizalde, Luciana, Fernández-Marín, Hermógenes, and Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2016. "Social life and sanitary risks: evolutionary and current ecological conditions determine waste management in leaf-cutting ants." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283, (1831). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0625. 2016
- Farji-Brener, Alejandro, Chinchilla, Federico, Umana, Maria Natalia, Ocasio-Torres, Maria, Chauta-Mellizo, Alexander, Acosta-Rojas, Diana, Marinaro, Sofia, Torres Curth, Maria de, and Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2015. "Branching angles reflect a tradeoff between reducing trail maintenance costs or travel distances in leaf-cutting ants." Ecology, 96, (2) 510–517. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-0220.1. 2015
- Amador-Vargas, Sabrina, Gronenberg, Wulfila, Wcislo, William T., and Mueller, Ulrich G. 2015. "Specialization and group size: brain and behavioural correlates of colony size in ants lacking morphological castes." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, (1801). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2502. 2015
- Amador-Vargas, S. 2012. "Behavioral responses of acacia ants correlate with age and location on the host plant." Insectes Sociaux, 59, (3) 341–350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-012-0226-x. 2012
- Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2008. "Spartan defense in the Thermopylae pass: Strategic defense by aggregations of Pseudomyrmex spinicola (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on the trunk of Acacia collinsii (Mimosaceae)." Insectes Sociaux, 55, (3) 241–245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-008-1000-y. 2008
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Book
- Amador-Vargas, Sabrina. 2014. Living in a Plant: Brain and behavioral traits of Acacia ants. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin. 2014
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Dataset
- Amador, Sabrina, González, Yorlenis, Guevara, Maikol, and Gijsman, Finote. 2023. [Dataset] Collection of datasets - Scaling of indirect defenses in Central American swollen thorn acacias. Distributed by Barro Colorado Island, Panama: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.20235462.V1. 2023
- Amador, Sabrina and Porras-Brenes, Katherine. 2023. [Dataset] Dataset - Three neotropical bird species shift nest-site preferences from swollen-thorn acacias to other sites in human-altered habitats. Distributed by Barro Colorado Island, Panama: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.16702273.V1. 2023
- Amador-Vargas, Sabrina, Orribarra, Vivian Sara, Portugal-Loayza, Ana, and Fernández-Marín, Hermogenes. 2020. [Dataset] Dataset- Association patterns of swollen-thorn acacias with three ant species and other organisms in a dry forest of Panama. Distributed by The Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.13114025.V1. 2020
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Department
