Alejandro Rico-Guevara

Rico-G. A. 2008. Morphology and arthropod foraging by high Andean Hummingbirds. Ornitología Colombiana 7: 43-58.

Rico-G. A. 2006. Transferencia diferencial de información en Ectatomma ruidum (Formicidae), p. 294-298. In: Ecología Tropical & Conservación. O.T.S., San José, Costa Rica.

Rico-G., A., Beltrán, J.P. A., Álvarez, A. D. & E. Florez D. 2005. Diversidad de arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) en el Parque Nacional Natural Isla Gorgona, Pacífico Colombiano. Biota Neotrop. 5 (1a): 1-12.

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Rico-Guevara A., M. Rubega, K. Hurme and R. Dudley. 2019. Shifting Paradigms in the Mechanics of Nectar Extraction and Hummingbird Bill Morphology. Integrative Organismal Biology. Early view.

Rico-Guevara A. and K. J. Hurme. 2019. Intrasexually selected weapons. Biological Reviews. 94: 60-101.

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Rico-Guevara A., Bright, J. A., Corbin C. E., Gussekloo S. W. S., Olsen A., Sustaita D. and R. Dudley. 2019. Feeding in Birds. In Bels V., editor. Feeding in vertebrates Anatomy, Biomechanics, Evolution. Springer, In press.

Sustaita D., Rico-Guevara A. and F. Hertel. 2018. Foraging Behavior. In Morrison M. L., Rodewald A. D., Voelker G. Prather J. F. and M. R. Colón, editors. Ornithology: Foundation, Analysis, and Application. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 439-492.

Rico-Guevara, A. 2018. Diversidad de aves en bosques secos del cañón de los ríos Chicamocha y Suárez (Colombia). In Pardo, M. E. y R. Moreno-Arias, editors. El enclave seco del cañón de Chicamocha: biodiversidad y territorio. Fundación Natura. pp. 16–22.

Rico-Guevara A. and M. Rubega. 2017. Functional morphology of hummingbird bill tips: their function as tongue wringers. Zoology. 123: 1-10.

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Rico-Guevara A. 2017. Relating form to function in the hummingbird feeding apparatus. PeerJ 5:e3449

Rico‐Guevara A. and J. Mickley. 2017. Bring your own camera to the trap: An inexpensive, versatile, and portable triggering system tested on wild hummingbirds. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3040

Rico-Guevara A., Morales-Rozo A., Moreno-Palacios M. and M. Lozano-Jaramillo. 2016. Anthocephala berlepschi. In L. M. Renjifo, et al., editors. Libro rojo de aves de Colombia II. Instituto von Humboldt. pp. 199-203.

Morales-Rozo A., Rico-Guevara A., Moreno-Palacios M. and M. Lozano-Jaramillo. 2016. Anthocephala floriceps. In L. M. Renjifo, et al., editors. Libro rojo de aves de Colombia II. Instituto von Humboldt. pp. 195-198.

Rico-Guevara A., T-H. Fan and M. Rubega. 2015. Hummingbird tongues are elastic micropumps. Proc. R. Soc. B 1813: 20151014.

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Rico-Guevara A. and M. Araya-Salas. 2015. Bills as daggers? A test for sexually dimorphic weapons in a lekking hummingbird. Behavioral Ecology 26: 21-29. The authors contributed equally to this paper.

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Rico-Guevara A. 2014. Morphology and Function of the Drinking Apparatus in Hummingbirds. Doctoral Dissertation.

Best dissertation award 2014 - EEB UConn

Lozano-Jaramillo M., Rico-Guevara A. and C.D. Cadena. 2014. Genetic Differentiation, Niche Divergence, and the Origin and Maintenance of the Disjunct Distribution in the Blossomcrown Anthocephala floriceps (Trochilidae). PLoS ONE 9(9): e108345.

Rico-Guevara A. and M. A. Rubega. 2012. Hummingbird feeding mechanics: Comments on the capillarity model. PNAS 109: E867.

Rico-Guevara A. and M. Rubega. 2011. The hummingbird tongue is a fluid trap, not a capillary tube. PNAS 108: 9356–9360.

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