Jonathan Z. Shik

Jonathan Z. Shik

Associate Professor


  1. Scaling community structure: how bacteria, fungi, and ant taxocenes differentiate along a tropical forest floor

    Kaspari, M., Stevenson, B. S., Shik, Jonathan Z. & Kerekes, J. F., 2010, In: Ecology. 91, 8, p. 2221-2226

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  2. The Effect of Human Activity on Ant Species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Richness at the Mont St. Hilaire Biosphere Reserve, Quebec

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Francoeur, A. & Buddle, C. M., 2005, In: The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 119, 1, p. 38-42

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  3. Published

    The evolution of multicellular complexity: the role of relatedness and environmental constraints

    Fisher, Roberta May, Shik, Jonathan Z. & Boomsma, Jacobus J., 2020, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 287, 1931, 8 p., 20192963.

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  4. Published

    The farming ant Sericomyrmex amabilis nutritionally manages its fungal symbiont and social parasite

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Consilio, A., Kaae, T. & Adams, R. M. M., Aug 2018, In: Ecological Entomology. 43, 4, p. 440-446

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  5. The life history continuum hypothesis links traits of male ants with life outside the nest.

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Donoso, D. A. & Kaspari, M., 2013, In: Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 149, 2, p. 99-109

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. The metabolic costs of building ant colonies from variably sized subunits

    Shik, Jonathan Z., 2010, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 64, 12, p. 1981-1990

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  7. Published

    The multidimensional nutritional niche of fungus-cultivar provisioning in free-ranging colonies of a neotropical leafcutter ant

    Crumière, A. J. J., James, A., Lannes, P., Mallett, S., Michelsen, Anders, Rinnan, Riikka & Shik, Jonathan Z., 2021, In: Ecology Letters. 24, 11, p. 2439-2451 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearchpeer-review

  8. Toward a general life history model of the superorganism: predicting the survival, growth, and reproduction of ant societies

    Shik, Jonathan Z., Hou, C., Kay, A., Kaspari, M. & Gillooly, J. F., 2012, In: Biology Letters. 8, 6, p. 1059-1062

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Towards a nutritional ecology of invasive establishment: aphid mutualists provide better fuel for incipient Argentine ant colonies than insect prey

    Shik, Jonathan Z. & Silverman, J., 2013, In: Biological Invasions. 15, 4, p. 829-836

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  10. Published

    Using Nutritional Geometry to Explore How Social Insects Navigate Nutritional Landscapes

    Crumiere, A. J. J., Stephenson, C. J., Nagel, M. & Shik, Jonathan Z., 2020, In: Insects. 11, 1, 14 p., 53.

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