By far the best reference anyone can hope to find about ants
is the following:
- Holldobler, Bert and Wilson, E. O. (1990) The Ants. The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This beautiful
book costs approximately $75 but is the most thorough and readable book available.
It is often referred to as "the ant bible".
Other books:
- Beattie, Andrew (1995) The Evolutionary Ecology of Ant-Plant
Mutualisms.
- Doros, Arthur (1987) Ant Cities. Scholastic Inc., New York,
New York.
- Holldobler, Bert and Wilson, E. O. (1994) Journey to the
Ants. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Hutchins, Ross, E. (1967) The Ant Realm. Dodd, Mead and Company,
New York.
- Larson, Mervin and Peggy P. (1965) All About Ants. The world
Publishing Co., Cleveland and NY.
- Selsam, Millicent (1967) Questions and Answers about Ants.
Uncle Milton Industries, Culver City, CA.
- Shuttlesworth, Dorothy E. (1964) Story of Ants. Doubleday
and Co. Inc., Garden City, NY.
- Wilson, Edward O. (1994) The Right Stuff. Island Press/Shearwater
Books, Washington, DC.
Magazine articles:
- Brown, James H. et al. (1979) Granivory in Desert
Ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecological Systems 10:201-227.
- Chapela, Ignacio H. et al. (1994) Evolutionary History
of the Symbiosis Between Fungus-Growing Ants and Their Fungi. Science 266:1691-1697.
- Christ, Thomas O. and Friese, Carl F. (1994) The Use of Ant
Nests by Subterranean Termites in Two Semiarid Ecosystems. American Midland
Naturalist 131(2):370-373.
- Gordon, Deborah M. (1993) The spatial scale of seed collection
by harvester ants. Oecologia 95:479-487.
- Holldobler, Bert (1971) Communication Between Ants and Their
Guests. Scientific American 224(3):86-93.
- Johnson, Robert A. (1996) Arizona Ants. Arizona Wildlife
Views 39(6):2-5.
- Knoch, Tom R. et al. (1993) Endophytic fungi alter
foraging and dispersal by desert ants. Oecologia 95:470-473.
- Topoff, Howard (1990) Slave-making Ants. American Scientist
78:520-528.