Bert Hölldobler

Bert Hölldobler (born 1936-06-25), German myrmecologist. Co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work on The Ants (1991) with Edward Osborne Wilson.

Bert Hölldobler

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Publications

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• Hölldobler, B. 1960: Über die Ameisenfauna in Finnland-Lappland. Waldhygiene, 8: 229–238.
• Hölldobler, B. & E. O. Wilson. 1971: Recruitment trails in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius. Psyche, 77: 385–399.
• Maschwitz, U., B. Hölldobler & M. Moeglich. 1974: Tandemlaufen als Rekrutierungsverhalten bei Bothroponera tesserinoda Forel. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 35: 113–123.
• Hölldobler, B. 1976: Recruitment behaviour, home range orientation and territoriality in harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1: 3–44.
• Hölldobler, B., R. Stanton & H. Engel. 1976: A new exocrine gland in Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with its possible significance as a taxonomic character. Psyche 83: 32–41.
• Hölldobler, B. & E.O. Wilson. 1977: Weaver ants. Scientific American, 237: 146–154.
• Hölldobler, B. & E.O. Wilson. 1978: The multiple recruitment systems of the African weaver ant Oecophylla longinoda (Latreille) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 3: 19–60.
• Hölldobler, B. 1978: Ethological aspects of chemical communication in ants. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 8: 75–115.
• Hölldobler, B., R. Stanton & H. Markl. 1978: Recruitment and food-retrieving behavior in Novomessor (Formicidae: Hymenoptera). 1. Chemical signals. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 4: 163–181.
• Hölldobler, B. & H. Engel. 1979: Tergal and sternal glands in ants. Psyche, 85: 285–330.
• Hölldobler, B. 1980: Canopy orientation: a new kind of orientation in ants. Science, 210: 86–88.
• Hölldobler, B. & J.F.A. Traniello. 1980: The pygidial gland and chemical recruitment in Pachycondyla (= Termitopone) laevigata. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 6: 883–893.
• Hölldobler, B. 1982: Communication, raiding behavior and prey storage in Cerapachys. Psyche, 89: 3–24.
• Hölldobler, B. & R.W. Taylor. 1984: A behavioral study of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark. Insectes Sociaux, 30: 384–401.
• Hölldobler, B. 1985: A new exocrine gland in the slave-raiding ant genus Polyergus. Psyche, 91: 225–236.
• Hölldobler, B. & H. Engel-Siegel. 1985: On the metapleural gland of ants. Psyche, 91: 201–224.
• Hölldobler, B. & E.O. Wilson. 1986: Soil-binding pilosity and camouflage in ants of the tribes Basicerotini and Stegomyrmecini. Zoomorphology, 106: 12–20.
• Hölldobler, B. & E.O. Wilson. 1986: Ecology and behavior of the primitive cryptobiotic ant Prionopelta amabilis. Insectes Sociaux, 33: 45–58.
• Wilson, E.O. & B. Hölldobler. 1986: Ecology and behavior of the Neotropical cryptobiotic ant Basiceros manni (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Basicerotini). Insectes Sociaux, 33: 70–84.
• Hölldobler, B. & E.O. Wilson. 1992: Pheidole nasutoides, a new species of Costa Rican ant that apparently mimics termites. Psyche, 99: 15–22.
• Mackay, W.P., S.P. Cover, J. Heinze & B. Hölldobler. 1995: Range extensions for the ant Leptothorax pergandei (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a mesic forest species discovered in the Chihuahuan Desert. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 97: 888.
• Liefke, C., W.H.O. Dorow, B. Hölldobler & U. Maschwitz. 1998: Nesting and food resources of syntopic species of the ant genus Polyrhachis (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in West-Malaysia. Insectes Sociaux, 45: 411–425.
• Hölldobler, B. & E.O. Wilson. 1998: The Ants. Springer. 732 Pp.
• Hölldobler, B. & E.O. Wilson. 2008: The Superorganism: The beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societies. W.W. Norton, New York. 544 pp.