Evan P. Economo
Gahan Professor & Department Chair
Contact
4108 Plant Sciences Building
4291 Fieldhouse Dr.
College Park, MD 20742
Office: (301) 405-1913
[email protected]
4291 Fieldhouse Dr.
College Park, MD 20742
Office: (301) 405-1913
[email protected]
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Research Interests
The Economo Lab aims to understand the evolutionary diversification and ecological structure of biodiversity. We seek to understand what generates and regulates biodiversity across levels of organization, while working to document the vast diversity of the planet. Our work integrates traditional field and collections-based approaches with emerging technologies in imaging, sequencing, and computation. We particularly aim to address knowledge deficits for understudied taxa such as insects by generating and analyzing foundational big data resources. Alongside our question-driven research program, we develop and adapt new technologies to both enhance our scientific work and create new ways for the public to interact with biodiversity. Our research is strongly rooted in biodiversity collections, and the lab manages a research collection of approximately 50,000 ant specimens.
UMD Graduate Program Affiliations
I am recruiting students to start in 2025 through the following programs.
- Entomology
- Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES)
- Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics (CBBG)
Appointments
University of Maryland, College Park
2024-present John B. Gahan and Margaret H. Gahan Professor & Department Chair, Department of Entomology
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
2024- present Adjunct Professor
2023 - 2024 Dean of Faculty Affairs
2020 - 2024 Professor, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit
2019 - 2022 Associate Ombudsperson
2012 - 2020 Assistant Professor, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit
2011 - 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor
Harvard University
2021 - 2022 Mary I. Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
University of Michigan
2012 - 2017 Visiting Assistant Prof., Dept. of Ecology & Evol. Biology
2009 - 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow - Michigan Society of Fellows
Assistant Prof. (non tenure-track)- Dept. of Ecology & Evol. Biology
2024-present John B. Gahan and Margaret H. Gahan Professor & Department Chair, Department of Entomology
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
2024- present Adjunct Professor
2023 - 2024 Dean of Faculty Affairs
2020 - 2024 Professor, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit
2019 - 2022 Associate Ombudsperson
2012 - 2020 Assistant Professor, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit
2011 - 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor
Harvard University
2021 - 2022 Mary I. Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
University of Michigan
2012 - 2017 Visiting Assistant Prof., Dept. of Ecology & Evol. Biology
2009 - 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow - Michigan Society of Fellows
Assistant Prof. (non tenure-track)- Dept. of Ecology & Evol. Biology
Education
Ph.D. 2009 Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Texas at Austin
B.S. 2002 Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
B.S. 2002 Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Recent publications (since 2022)
For full list see this page
• Hita Garcia, F., Gomez, K., Keller, R.A., Schurian, B., Economo, E.P. (In Press). There and back again: an updated 3D cyber-taxonomic revision of the ant genus Zasphinctus Wheeler (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Dorylinae) for the Afrotropical region. Zookeys.
• Gautam, S., McKenzie, S., Katzke, J., Hita Garcia, F., Yamamoto, S., Economo, E.P. (2024) Evolution of odorant receptor number across major Hymenopteran lineages is not driven by eusociality. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B. 291: 20241280.
• Opher, M., Loeb, A., Zucker, C., Goodman, A., Konietzka, R., Alves, J., Worden, A., Economo, E.P., Miller, J., Kornbleuth, M., Peek, J. (2024). The passage of the solar system through the edge of the local bubble. The Astrophysical Journal 972(2).
• Kalarikkal, R.K., Park, H., Georgiadis, C., Guénard, B., Economo, E.P., Kim, Y. (2024) Current and future distribution of the Cataglyphis nodus (Brullé, 1833) in the Middle East and North Africa. Diversity 16(9): 563.
• Liu, D., Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Moser, D., Semenchuk, P., Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P., Biancolini, D., Capinha, C., Dawson, W., Dyer, E., Guénard, B., Economo, E.P., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., van Kleunen, M., Nentwig, W., Rondinini, C., Seebens, H., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Purvis, A., Newbold, T., Dullinger, S. (2024) Regional invasion history and land use shape the prevalence of non-native species in local assemblages. Global Change Biology 30(7): e17426.
• Andrade-Silva, J., Baccaro, F.B., Prado, L.P., Guénard, B., Kass, J.M., Warren, D.L., Economo, E.P., Silva, R.R. (2024) Common ant species dominate morphospace: unraveling the morphological diversity in the Brazilian Amazon Basin. Ecography: e07121.
• Wang, R., Chaudhary, C., Kass, J.M., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B. (2024) Global biogeographic regions for ants have complex relationships with those for plants and tetrapods. Nature Communications 15: 5641.
• Frank, E., Buffat, D., Liberti, J., Aibekova, L., Economo, E.P., Keller, L. (2024) Wound-dependent leg amputations to combat infections in an ant society. Current Biology 34(14): 3273–3278.
• Suzuki, Y., Economo, E.P. (2024) The stability of competitive metacommunities is insensitive to dispersal connectivity in a fluctuating environment. The American Naturalist 203(6): 668-680.
• Ross, S.R.P.J., Friedman, N.R., Dudley, K.L., Yoshida, T., Yoshimura, M., Economo, E.P., Armitage, D.W., Donohue, I. (2024) Divergent ecological responses to typhoon disturbance revealed via landscape-scale acoustic monitoring. Global Change Biology 30(1): e17067.
• Frank, E.T., Kesner, L., Liberti, J., Helleu, Q., LeBoeuf, A., Dascalu, A., Milutinovic, B., Azuma, F., Economo, E.P., Waridel, P., Engel, P., Schmitt, T., Keller, L. (2023) Targeted treatment of injured nestmates with antimicrobial compounds in an ant society. Nature Communications 14: 8446.
• Demetriou, J., Georgiadis, C., Martinou, A.F., Roy, H., Wetterer, J.K., Borowiec, L., Economo, E.P., Triantis, K., Salata, S. (2023) Running rampant: the alien ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Cyprus. Neobiota 88: 17-73.
• Griebenow, Z., Richter, A., Fischer, G., van de Kamp, T., Economo, E.P., Lieberman, Z. (2023) Comparative morphology of male genital skeletomusculature in the Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a standardized muscular terminology for the male genitalia of Hymenoptera. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 81: 945-1018.
• Kass, J.M., Yoshida, T., Yoshimura, M., Ogasawara, M., Suwabe, M., Hita Garcia, F., Fischer, G. Dudley, K.L., Donohue, I., Economo, E.P. (2023) Breakdown in seasonal dynamics of subtropical ant communities with land cover change. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B. 290: 20231185.
• Richter, A., Economo, E.P. (2023) The feeding apparatus of ants: An overview of structure and function. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378: 20220556.
• Luo, Y., Taylor, A., Weigelt, P., Guénard, B., Economo, E.P., Nowak, A., Inderjit, Kreft, H. (2023) Climate and ant diversity explain the global distribution of ant-plant mutualisms. Ecography 2023(11): e06841.
• Toulkeridou, E., Gutierrez, C. E., Baum, D., Doya, K., Economo, E.P. (2023) Automated segmentation of insect anatomy from micro-CT images using deep learning. Natural Sciences 2023: e20230010.
• Li, Z., Azuma, F., Bachmann, V., Frank, E.., Oliveira-Honorato, T., Parker, D.J., Economo, E.P., Ulrich, Y. (2023) Behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies. Nature Communications 14: 5233.
• French, C.M., Bertola, L.D., Carnaval, A.C., Economo, E.P., Kass, J.M., Lohman, D.J., Marske, K.A., Meier, R., Overcast, I., Rominger, A.J., Staniczenko, P., Hickerson, M.J. (2023) Global determinants of the distribution of insect mitochondrial diversity. Nature Communications 14: 5276.
• Nathan, P, Economo, E.P., Guénard, B.P., Simonsen, A., Fredrickson, M.E. (2023) Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B 290: 2006.
• Aibekova, L., Keller, R., Katzke, J., Allman, D.M., Hita-Garcia, F., Labonte, D., Narendra, A., Economo, E.P. (2023) Parallel and divergent morphological adaptations for jumping in ants. Integrative Organismal Biology 5: obad026.
• Khalife, A., Billen, J., Economo, E.P. (2023) Evidence of a thoracic crop in workers, soldiers and queens of Carebara perpusilla ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). The Science of Nature 110: 36.
• Dinets, V., Friedman, N.R., Ogasawara, M., Yoshimura, M., Preble, J.H., Economo, E.P. (2023) Impacts on bats by a supertyphoon vs. ordinary typhoons along a habitat urbanization gradient. Research in Ecology 5: 14-27.
• Wang, C., Chung, F., Lin, C., Katzke, J., Economo, E.P., Billen, J. (2023) Morphology of the metapleural gland and its associated novel atrial cone gland in Strumigenys ants. Micron 171: 103463.
• Liu, D., Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Moser, D., Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P., Biancolini, D., Capinha, C., Dawson, W., Dyer, E.E., Guénard, B., Economo, E.P., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., van Kleunen, M., Nentwig, W., Rondinini, C., Seebens, H., Semenchuk, P., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Dullinger, S. (2023) The impact of land use on alien species incidence and richness in local assemblages worldwide. Nature Communications 14: 2090.
• Wong, M., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B.G. (2023) The global spread and invasion capacities of alien ants. Current Biology 33(3): 566-571.
• Liu, C., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B.G. (2023) GABI-I: The global ant biodiversity informatics-island database. Ecology 104(4): e3969.
• Richter, A., Boudinot, B., Hita Garcia, F., Billen, J., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G. (2023) Wonderfully weird: The head anatomy of the armadillo ant Tatuidris tatusia (Formicidae: Agroecomyrmecinae). Myrmecological News 33: 35-75.
• Overcast, I., Achaz, G., Aguilée, R., Andújar, C., Arribas, P., Creedy, T.J., Economo E.P., Etienne, R., Gillespie, R., Jacquet, C., Jay, F., Kennedy, S., Krehenwinkel, H., Lambert A., Meramveliotakis E., Noguerales, V., Perez-Lamarque, B., Roderick, G., Rogers, H., Ruffley, M., Sanmartin, I., Vogler, A.P., Papadopoulou, A., Emerson, B.C., Morlon, H. (2023) Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community-scale data. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 4-23.
• Wang, R., Kass, J.M., Galkowski, C., Garcia, F., Hamer, M.T., Radchenko, A., Salata, S.D., Schifani, E., Yusupov, Z.M., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B. (2023) Geographic and climatic constraints on bioregionalization of European ants. Journal of Biogeography 50: 503-514.
• Emerson, B.C., Borges, P.A.V., Cardoso, P., Convey, P., deWaard, J.R., Economo, E.P., Gillespie, R., Kennedy, S., Krehenwinkel, H., Meier, R., Roderick, G., Strasberg, D., Thébaud, C., Traveset, A., Creedy, T.J., Meramveliotakis, E., Noguerales, V., Overcast, I., Morlon, H., Papadopoulou, A., Vogler, A.P., Arribas, P., Andújar, C. (2022) Collective and harmonised high-throughput barcoding of insular arthropod biodiversity: toward a Genomic Observatories Network for islands. Molecular Ecology.
• Liu, C., Fischer, G., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B.(2022) Updating the taxonomy of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in China with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa, 5182.
• Wepfer, P., Nakajima, Y., Economo, E.P., Mitarai, S. (2022) The oceanographic isolation of the Ogasawara Islands and genetic divergence in a reef-building coral. Journal of Biogeography 49: 1978-1990.
• Wang, W., Soh, E.J.Y., Yong, G.W.J., Wong, M.K.L., Guénard, B.G., Economo, E.P., Yamane, S. (2022) Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: 015006.
• Kennedy, S., Calaor, J. Hans, J., Zurápiti, Y., Yoshimura, M., Choo, J., Andersen, J., Callagan, J., Roderick, G.K., Krehenwinkel, H., Rogers, H., Gillespie, R.G., Economo, E.P. (2022) Richness and resilience in the Pacific: DNA metabarcoding enables parallelized evaluation of biogeographic patterns. Molecular Ecology.
• Arribas, P. Andújar, C., Bohmann, K., deWaard, J., Economo, E.P., Elbrecht, V., Geisen, S., Goberna, M., Krehenwinkel, H., Novotny, V., Zinger, L., Creedy, T.J., Emmanouil Meramveliotakis, E., Noguerales, V., Overcast, I., Morlon, H., Papadopoulou, A., Vogler, A.P., Emerson, B.C. (2022) Toward global integration of biodiversity big data: a harmonised metabarcode data generation module for terrestrial arthropods. GigaScience 11: 1-12.
• Kass, J., Guénard, B., Dudley, K., Jenkins, C.N., Azuma, F., Fisher, B.L., Parr, C.L., Gibb, H., Longino, J.T., Ward, P.S., Chao, A., Lubertazzi, D., Weiser, M., Jetz, W., Guralnick, R., Blatrix, R., Des Lauriers, J., Donoso, D., Georgiadis, C., Gomez, K., Hawkes, P., Johnson, R.A., Lattke, J., MacGown, J.A., Mackay, W., Robson, S., Sanders, N., Dunn, R.R., Economo, E.P. (2022) The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity. Science Advances 8: eabp9908.
• Parker, E., Jones, C., Economo, E.P., Zapfe, K.L. Federman, S., Near, T.J. Dornburg, A. (2022) Pulsed extinction drives convergence in the adaptive radiation of Antarctic fishes. The American Naturalist.
• Khalife, A., Peeters, C., Economo, E.P. (2022) Minute workers and large soldiers in the subterranean ant Carebara perpusilla: functional consequences of muscle allometry in the thorax. Arthropod Structure & Development 69: 101188.
• Andrade-Silva, J., Baccaro, F.B., Prado, L.P., Warren, D.L., Kass, J., Guenard, B., Economo, E.P., Silva, R.R. (2022) A large-scale assessment of ant diversity across the Brazilian Amazon Basin: integrating geographic, ecological, and morphological drivers of sampling bias. Ecography 16: e0695.
• Gómez, K., Kouakou, L., Fischer, G., Hita–Garcia, F., Katzke, J., Economo, E.P. (2022) Pheidole klaman sp. n.: A new addition from Ivory Coast to the Afrotropical pulchella species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zookeys 1104: 129-157.
• Aibekova, L., Boudinot, B., Beutel, R. G., Richter, A., Keller, R. A., Hita Garcia, F., Economo, E. P. (2022) The skeletomuscular system of workers of the generalized ant genus Formica (Formicidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 6: 2.
• La Richeliere, F., Dunn, R., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Sanders, N., Weiser, M., Abouheif, E., Lessard, J.P. (2022) Warm and arid regions of the world are hotspots of social complexity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289: 20211899.
• Katzke, J., Puchenkov, P., Stark, H., Economo, E.P. (2022) A roadmap to reconstructing muscle architecture from micro-CT data. Integrative Organismal Biology 4: obac001.
• Takashina, N., Jenkins, C., Planck, M., Economo, E.P. (2022) Species-range size distributions: integrating the effects of speciation, transformation, and extinction. Ecology and Evolution 12: e8341.
• Boudinot, B., Richter, A., Katzke, J., Keller, R., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R., Yamamoto, S. (2022) Evidence for the evolution of eusociality in stem ants and a systematic revision of †Gerontoformica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 1355-1389.
• Hita Garcia, F., Gomez, K., Keller, R.A., Schurian, B., Economo, E.P. (In Press). There and back again: an updated 3D cyber-taxonomic revision of the ant genus Zasphinctus Wheeler (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Dorylinae) for the Afrotropical region. Zookeys.
• Gautam, S., McKenzie, S., Katzke, J., Hita Garcia, F., Yamamoto, S., Economo, E.P. (2024) Evolution of odorant receptor number across major Hymenopteran lineages is not driven by eusociality. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B. 291: 20241280.
• Opher, M., Loeb, A., Zucker, C., Goodman, A., Konietzka, R., Alves, J., Worden, A., Economo, E.P., Miller, J., Kornbleuth, M., Peek, J. (2024). The passage of the solar system through the edge of the local bubble. The Astrophysical Journal 972(2).
• Kalarikkal, R.K., Park, H., Georgiadis, C., Guénard, B., Economo, E.P., Kim, Y. (2024) Current and future distribution of the Cataglyphis nodus (Brullé, 1833) in the Middle East and North Africa. Diversity 16(9): 563.
• Liu, D., Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Moser, D., Semenchuk, P., Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P., Biancolini, D., Capinha, C., Dawson, W., Dyer, E., Guénard, B., Economo, E.P., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., van Kleunen, M., Nentwig, W., Rondinini, C., Seebens, H., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Purvis, A., Newbold, T., Dullinger, S. (2024) Regional invasion history and land use shape the prevalence of non-native species in local assemblages. Global Change Biology 30(7): e17426.
• Andrade-Silva, J., Baccaro, F.B., Prado, L.P., Guénard, B., Kass, J.M., Warren, D.L., Economo, E.P., Silva, R.R. (2024) Common ant species dominate morphospace: unraveling the morphological diversity in the Brazilian Amazon Basin. Ecography: e07121.
• Wang, R., Chaudhary, C., Kass, J.M., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B. (2024) Global biogeographic regions for ants have complex relationships with those for plants and tetrapods. Nature Communications 15: 5641.
• Frank, E., Buffat, D., Liberti, J., Aibekova, L., Economo, E.P., Keller, L. (2024) Wound-dependent leg amputations to combat infections in an ant society. Current Biology 34(14): 3273–3278.
• Suzuki, Y., Economo, E.P. (2024) The stability of competitive metacommunities is insensitive to dispersal connectivity in a fluctuating environment. The American Naturalist 203(6): 668-680.
• Ross, S.R.P.J., Friedman, N.R., Dudley, K.L., Yoshida, T., Yoshimura, M., Economo, E.P., Armitage, D.W., Donohue, I. (2024) Divergent ecological responses to typhoon disturbance revealed via landscape-scale acoustic monitoring. Global Change Biology 30(1): e17067.
• Frank, E.T., Kesner, L., Liberti, J., Helleu, Q., LeBoeuf, A., Dascalu, A., Milutinovic, B., Azuma, F., Economo, E.P., Waridel, P., Engel, P., Schmitt, T., Keller, L. (2023) Targeted treatment of injured nestmates with antimicrobial compounds in an ant society. Nature Communications 14: 8446.
• Demetriou, J., Georgiadis, C., Martinou, A.F., Roy, H., Wetterer, J.K., Borowiec, L., Economo, E.P., Triantis, K., Salata, S. (2023) Running rampant: the alien ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Cyprus. Neobiota 88: 17-73.
• Griebenow, Z., Richter, A., Fischer, G., van de Kamp, T., Economo, E.P., Lieberman, Z. (2023) Comparative morphology of male genital skeletomusculature in the Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a standardized muscular terminology for the male genitalia of Hymenoptera. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 81: 945-1018.
• Kass, J.M., Yoshida, T., Yoshimura, M., Ogasawara, M., Suwabe, M., Hita Garcia, F., Fischer, G. Dudley, K.L., Donohue, I., Economo, E.P. (2023) Breakdown in seasonal dynamics of subtropical ant communities with land cover change. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B. 290: 20231185.
• Richter, A., Economo, E.P. (2023) The feeding apparatus of ants: An overview of structure and function. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378: 20220556.
• Luo, Y., Taylor, A., Weigelt, P., Guénard, B., Economo, E.P., Nowak, A., Inderjit, Kreft, H. (2023) Climate and ant diversity explain the global distribution of ant-plant mutualisms. Ecography 2023(11): e06841.
• Toulkeridou, E., Gutierrez, C. E., Baum, D., Doya, K., Economo, E.P. (2023) Automated segmentation of insect anatomy from micro-CT images using deep learning. Natural Sciences 2023: e20230010.
• Li, Z., Azuma, F., Bachmann, V., Frank, E.., Oliveira-Honorato, T., Parker, D.J., Economo, E.P., Ulrich, Y. (2023) Behavioural individuality determines infection risk in clonal ant colonies. Nature Communications 14: 5233.
• French, C.M., Bertola, L.D., Carnaval, A.C., Economo, E.P., Kass, J.M., Lohman, D.J., Marske, K.A., Meier, R., Overcast, I., Rominger, A.J., Staniczenko, P., Hickerson, M.J. (2023) Global determinants of the distribution of insect mitochondrial diversity. Nature Communications 14: 5276.
• Nathan, P, Economo, E.P., Guénard, B.P., Simonsen, A., Fredrickson, M.E. (2023) Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Series B 290: 2006.
• Aibekova, L., Keller, R., Katzke, J., Allman, D.M., Hita-Garcia, F., Labonte, D., Narendra, A., Economo, E.P. (2023) Parallel and divergent morphological adaptations for jumping in ants. Integrative Organismal Biology 5: obad026.
• Khalife, A., Billen, J., Economo, E.P. (2023) Evidence of a thoracic crop in workers, soldiers and queens of Carebara perpusilla ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). The Science of Nature 110: 36.
• Dinets, V., Friedman, N.R., Ogasawara, M., Yoshimura, M., Preble, J.H., Economo, E.P. (2023) Impacts on bats by a supertyphoon vs. ordinary typhoons along a habitat urbanization gradient. Research in Ecology 5: 14-27.
• Wang, C., Chung, F., Lin, C., Katzke, J., Economo, E.P., Billen, J. (2023) Morphology of the metapleural gland and its associated novel atrial cone gland in Strumigenys ants. Micron 171: 103463.
• Liu, D., Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Moser, D., Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P., Biancolini, D., Capinha, C., Dawson, W., Dyer, E.E., Guénard, B., Economo, E.P., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., van Kleunen, M., Nentwig, W., Rondinini, C., Seebens, H., Semenchuk, P., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Dullinger, S. (2023) The impact of land use on alien species incidence and richness in local assemblages worldwide. Nature Communications 14: 2090.
• Wong, M., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B.G. (2023) The global spread and invasion capacities of alien ants. Current Biology 33(3): 566-571.
• Liu, C., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B.G. (2023) GABI-I: The global ant biodiversity informatics-island database. Ecology 104(4): e3969.
• Richter, A., Boudinot, B., Hita Garcia, F., Billen, J., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G. (2023) Wonderfully weird: The head anatomy of the armadillo ant Tatuidris tatusia (Formicidae: Agroecomyrmecinae). Myrmecological News 33: 35-75.
• Overcast, I., Achaz, G., Aguilée, R., Andújar, C., Arribas, P., Creedy, T.J., Economo E.P., Etienne, R., Gillespie, R., Jacquet, C., Jay, F., Kennedy, S., Krehenwinkel, H., Lambert A., Meramveliotakis E., Noguerales, V., Perez-Lamarque, B., Roderick, G., Rogers, H., Ruffley, M., Sanmartin, I., Vogler, A.P., Papadopoulou, A., Emerson, B.C., Morlon, H. (2023) Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community-scale data. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 4-23.
• Wang, R., Kass, J.M., Galkowski, C., Garcia, F., Hamer, M.T., Radchenko, A., Salata, S.D., Schifani, E., Yusupov, Z.M., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B. (2023) Geographic and climatic constraints on bioregionalization of European ants. Journal of Biogeography 50: 503-514.
• Emerson, B.C., Borges, P.A.V., Cardoso, P., Convey, P., deWaard, J.R., Economo, E.P., Gillespie, R., Kennedy, S., Krehenwinkel, H., Meier, R., Roderick, G., Strasberg, D., Thébaud, C., Traveset, A., Creedy, T.J., Meramveliotakis, E., Noguerales, V., Overcast, I., Morlon, H., Papadopoulou, A., Vogler, A.P., Arribas, P., Andújar, C. (2022) Collective and harmonised high-throughput barcoding of insular arthropod biodiversity: toward a Genomic Observatories Network for islands. Molecular Ecology.
• Liu, C., Fischer, G., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B.(2022) Updating the taxonomy of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in China with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa, 5182.
• Wepfer, P., Nakajima, Y., Economo, E.P., Mitarai, S. (2022) The oceanographic isolation of the Ogasawara Islands and genetic divergence in a reef-building coral. Journal of Biogeography 49: 1978-1990.
• Wang, W., Soh, E.J.Y., Yong, G.W.J., Wong, M.K.L., Guénard, B.G., Economo, E.P., Yamane, S. (2022) Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: 015006.
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