The Gordon Lab

Research

Ecology and evolution of collective behavior

Gordon, DM. 2023. The Ecology of Collective Behavior. Princeton Univ Press.

Gordon. The evolution of the algorithms for collective behavior

Gordon. The ecology of collective behavior

Gordon. The fusion of ecology and behavioral ecology

Gordon. In ants.

Task allocation in social insects

Gordon DM. 2010. Ant Encounters: Interaction networks and colony behavior. Princeton Univ Press.

Gordon. From division of labor to collective behavior

Gordon. Encounter rate and task allocation

Collective regulation of foraging behavior of harvester ants

Gordon et al. 2023. Risk averse and risk tolerant colonies

Pagliara et al. 2018. Control theory model

Davidson et al. Harvester ants as leaky integrators

Davidson and Gordon. Spatial patterns of interaction

Gordon. Natural selection on collective foraging behavior

Neurophysiology

Friedman et al. 2020. Dopamine and gene expression

Friedman et al. 2018. Dopamine and foraging

Regulation of water loss through CHCs: Menzel et al in press

Ecology and population dynamics of harvester ants

Sundaram et al 2022. Population dynamics and drought 1988-2019

Gordon. 2025. Nest architecture.

Ingram, et al. Colony life history and lifetime reproductive success of red harvester ant colonies

Trail networks of turtle ants

Gordon. Trail networks of turtle ants

Gordon. The dynamics of foraging trails in the tropical arboreal ant Cephalotes goniodontus

Chandrasekhar et al 2018. Distributed algorithm

Chandrasekhar et al. 2021 Better tired than lost

Garg et al. 2024. Pruning cycles

Butler et al. 2025. Colony life history

Invasive Argentine ants

Couper et al. 2021. Drought limits spread.

Vonshak and Gordon. Intermediate disturbance promotes invasive ant abundance

Gordon, D. M. and N. E. Heller. The invasive Argentine ant in Northern California reserves: from foraging behavior to local spread

Fitzgerald, K. et al. Effects of vegetation cover, presence of a native ant species, and human disturbance on colonization by Argentine ants

Ants in space

Countryman et al. 2015. Ants in space