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List of works by Stephen P. Yanoviak

A mechanistic and empirically supported lightning risk model for forest trees

scientific article published in 2020

Adhesion and Running Speed of a Tropical Arboreal Ant (Cephalotes atratus) on Rough, Narrow, and Inclined Substrates

scientific article published on 13 June 2020

Adhesion and running speed of a tropical arboreal ant (Cephalotes atratus) on wet substrates

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

Adhesive performance of tropical arboreal ants varies with substrate temperature

scientific article

Aerial manoeuvrability in wingless gliding ants (Cephalotes atratus).

scientific article published on 17 March 2010

Animal Aloft: The Origins of Aerial Behavior and Flight

scientific article (publication date: 4 March 2011)

Arachnid aloft: directed aerial descent in neotropical canopy spiders

scientific article

Arboreal Ant Species Richness in Primary Forest, Secondary Forest, and Pasture Habitats of a Tropical Montane Landscape1

scientific article published on 13 July 2006

Arboreal Ant Species Richness in Primary Forest, Secondary Forest, and Pasture Habitats of a Tropical Montane Landscape1

scientific article published on 15 March 2006

Behavioral response to heat stress of twig-nesting canopy ants

scientific article published in April 2022

Biogeochemistry and the structure of tropical brown food webs.

scientific article published on December 2009

Canopy and litter ant assemblages share similar climate-species density relationships

scientific article

Community Structure in Water-Filled Tree Holes of Panama: Effects of Hole Height and Size

article by Stephen P Yanoviak published 1999 in Selbyana

Connectivity explains local ant community structure in a Neotropical forest canopy: a large-scale experimental approach

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Container Color and Location Affect Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in Artificial Treeholes in Panama

scientific article

Deforestation alters phytotelm habitat availability and mosquito production in the Peruvian Amazon

scientific article published in October 2006

Desiccation resistance in tropical insects: causes and mechanisms underlying variability in a Panama ant community.

scientific article

Direct effects of lightning in temperate forests: a review and preliminary survey in a hemlock–hardwood forest of the northern United States

scientific article

Directed aerial descent in canopy ants

scientific article

Distribution and Abundance of Microvelia cavicola Polhemus (Heteroptera: Veliidae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

scientific article

EFFECTS OF ELEVATED ATMOSPHERIC CO(2) ON WATER CHEMISTRY AND MOSQUITO (DIPTERA: CULICIDAE) GROWTH UNDER COMPETITIVE CONDITIONS IN CONTAINER HABITATS

scientific article

Effects of Mecistogaster spp. (Odonata: Pseudostigmatidae) and Culex mollis (Diptera: Culicidae) on Litter Decomposition in Neotropical Treehole Microcosms

scientific article

Effects of leaf litter species on macroinvertebrate community properties and mosquito yield in Neotropical tree hole microcosms

scientific article published on July 1999

Effects of lightning on trees: A predictive model based on in situ electrical resistivity

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Electrical properties of temperate forest trees: a review and quantitative comparison with vines

Endemic Venezuelan equine encephalitis in northern Peru

scientific article published in May 2004

Episodes in insect evolution

scientific article published on June 24, 2009

Evolution and ecology of directed aerial descent in arboreal ants

scientific article (publication date: December 2011)

Exoskeletal thinning in Cephalotes atratus ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) parasitized by Myrmeconema neotropicum (Nematoda: Tetradonematidae).

scientific article published on 11 August 2011

First case reports of Ignatzschineria (Schineria) indica associated with myiasis

scientific article published on 8 October 2014

Functional Roles of Lianas for Forest Canopy Animals

Gliding and the Functional Origins of Flight: Biomechanical Novelty or Necessity?

article

Gliding hexapods and the origins of insect aerial behaviour.

scientific article

Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Jumping and the aerial behavior of aquatic mayfly larvae (Myobaetis ellenae, Baetidae).

scientific article

Lightning Damage Facilitates Beetle Colonization of Tropical Trees

scientific article

Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland neotropical forest

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Lightning‐caused disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon

scientific article

Lust for Salt in the Western Amazon

scientific article published on 02 November 2011

Microbial Composition and Wood Decomposition Rates Vary with Microclimate From the Ground to the Canopy in a Tropical Forest

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Microsatellite data suggest significant population structure and differentiation within the malaria vector Anopheles darlingi in Central and South America

scientific article published on 26 March 2008

Myrmeconema neotropicum n. g., n. sp., a new tetradonematid nematode parasitising South American populations of Cephalotes atratus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with the discovery of an apparent parasite-induced host morph

scientific article

On the biogeography of salt limitation: a study of ant communities.

scholarly article

Out on a limb: Thermal microenvironments in the tropical forest canopy and their relevance to ants

scientific article published on 8 June 2017

Pantropical geography of lightning-caused disturbance and its implications for tropical forests

scientific article published on 21 June 2020

Phyllostomid Bats of Lowland Amazonia: Effects of Habitat Alteration on Abundance

Predation by odonates depresses mosquito abundance in water-filled tree holes in Panama

scientific article published in October 1997

Predation, resource availability, and community structure in Neotropical water-filled tree holes.

scientific article published on January 2001

Preliminary Assessment of Metabolic Costs of the Nematode Myrmeconema neotropicum on its Host, the Tropical Ant Cephalotes atratus

scientific article published on March 23, 2011

Quantification and identification of lightning damage in tropical forests

scientific article

Seasonal plasticity of thermal tolerance in ants

scientific article published on 02 April 2020

Short-term sodium inputs attract microbi-detritivores and their predators

scientific article published in 2014

Sodium fertilization increases termites and enhances decomposition in an Amazonian forest

scientific article published on April 2014

Sodium shortage as a constraint on the carbon cycle in an inland tropical rainforest

scientific article (publication date: 17 November 2009)

Stem characteristics and ant body size in a Costa Rican rain forest

scholarly article by Stephen P. Yanoviak et al published 13 February 2012 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

The contributions of lightning to biomass turnover, gap formation and plant mortality in a tropical forest

scientific article published in 2021

The descent of ant: field-measured performance of gliding ants.

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

The geographic distribution of parasite-induced fruit mimicry in Cephalotes atratus (Formicidae: Myrmicinae).

scientific article published on 5 July 2012

Thermal adaptation and phosphorus shape thermal performance in an assemblage of rainforest ants

scientific article published on April 2016

Thermal adaptation generates a diversity of thermal limits in a rainforest ant community

scientific article published on 7 November 2014

Thermal constraints on foraging of tropical canopy ants

scientific article published on 28 January 2017

Transmission of a Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Complex Alphavirus by Culex ( Melanoconion ) gnomatos (Diptera: Culicidae) in Northeastern Peru

article

Transmission of a Venezuelan equine encephalitis complex Alphavirus by Culex (Melanoconion) gnomatos (Diptera: Culicidae) in northeastern Peru

scientific article published in May 2005

Tropical ant community responses to experimental soil warming

scientific article published in 2022

Variation in Larval Thermal Tolerance of Three Saproxylic Beetle Species

scientific article published in 2022

Variation in thermal tolerance of North American ants.

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

Water surface locomotion in tropical canopy ants

scientific article published on June 2014