Research Interests
The goal of my research program is to link empirical results and theory
to develop and expand a framework for understanding the population and
community dynamics of mutualism. My past and current research addresses
this goal using a variety of natural systems, but focuses on ant-based
mutualisms.
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Publications
- Morales M. A. 2002. Ant-dependent oviposition in the membracid Publilia concava. Ecological Entomology 27: 247-250.
- Inouye, D. W., M. A. Morales, and G. J. Dodge. 2002. Variation in timing and abundance of flowering by Delphinium barbeyi Huth (Ranunculaceae): the roles of snowpack, frost, and La Niņa, in the context of climate change. Oecologia 130: 543-550.
- Morales, M. A. 2000. Survivorship of an ant-tended membracid as a function of ant recruitment. Oikos 90: 469-476.
- Morales, M.A. 2000. Mechanisms and density-dependence of benefit in an ant-membracid mutualism. Ecology 81: 482-489.
- Morales, M.A., and E.R. Heithaus. 1998. Seed dispersal mutualism shifts sex ratios in colonies of the ant, Aphaenogaster rudis. Ecology 79:734-739.
Abstracts and in some cases pdf files of some publications are
available.