Noa Pinter-Wollman

Professor, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles

Publications

  1. Gahm K, Acácio M, Anglister N, Vaadia G, Spiegel O, Pinter-Wollman N. Relationship between spatial and social phenotypes in an avian scavenger.. The Journal of animal ecology, 2026.
  2. Albery GF, Becker DJ, Firth JA, De Moor D, Ravindran S, Silk M, Sweeny AR, Vander Wal E, Webber Q, Allen B, Babayan SA, Barve S, Begon M, Birtles RJ, Block TA, Block BA, Bradley JE, Budischak S, Buesching C, Burthe SJ, Carlisle AB, Caselle JE, Cattuto C, Chaine AS, Chapple TK, Cheney BJ, Clutton-Brock T, Collier M, Curnick DJ, Delahay RJ, Farine DR, Fenton A, Ferretti F, Feyrer L, Fielding H, Foroughirad V, Frere C, Gardner MG, Geffen E, Godfrey SS, Graham AL, Hammond PS, Henrich M, Heurich M, Hopwood P, Ilany A, Jackson JA, Jackson N, Jacoby DMP, Jacoby AM, Ježek M, Kirkpatrick L, Klamm A, Klarevas-Irby JA, Knowles S, Koren L, Krzyszczyk E, Kusch JM, Lambin X, Lane JE, Leirs H, Leu ST, Lyon BE, Macdonald DW, Madsen AE, Mann J, Manser M, Mariën J, Massawe A, McDonald RA, Morelle K, Mourier J, Newman C, Nussear K, Nyaguthii B, Ogino M, Ozella L, Packer C, Papastamatiou YP, Paterson S, Payne E, Pedersen AB, Pemberton JM, Pinter-Wollman N, Planes S, Raulo A, Rodríguez-Muñoz R, Rudd L, Sabuni C, Sah P, Schallert RJ, Sheldon BC, Shizuka D, Sih A, Sinn DL, Sluydts V, Spiegel O, Telfer S, Thomason CA, Tickler DM, Tregenza T, VanderWaal K, Walmsley S, Walters EL, Wanelik KM, Whitehead H, Wielgus E, Wilson-Aggarwal J, Wohlfeil C, Bansal S. Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems.. Nature ecology & evolution, 2025.
  3. Laub EC, Ewing MC, Baldwin ER, Pinter-Wollman N, Tibbetts EA. Nest-founding paper wasps aggregate in "social leks" and decrease aggression during partner selection.. Current zoology, 2025.
  4. O'Fallon S, Pinter-Wollman N, Mabry KE. Uncovering multiple influences on space use by deer mice using large ecological networks.. Oecologia, 2025.
  5. Gamboa DA, Flynn PJ, Horna-Lowell ES, Pinter-Wollman N. Social organization and physical environment shape the microbiome of harvester ants.. Animal microbiome, 2025.
  6. D'Bastiani E, Anglister N, Lysnyansky I, Mikula I, Acácio M, Vaadia G, Gahm K, Spiegel O, Pinter-Wollman N. Social interactions do not affect mycoplasma infection in griffon vultures.. Royal Society open science, 2024.
  7. Millerwise S, Lund MC, Schimidlin K, Kraberger S, Pinter-Wollman N, Varsani A. Coding complete genomes of an iridovirus and two parvoviruses identified in lab-reared social spiders (Stegodyphus dumicola).. Microbiology resource announcements, 2024.
  8. Gahm K, Nguyen R, Acácio M, Anglister N, Vaadia G, Spiegel O, Pinter-Wollman N. A wrap-around movement path randomization method to distinguish social and spatial drivers of animal interactions.. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2024.
  9. Acácio M, Gahm K, Anglister N, Vaadia G, Hatzofe O, Harel R, Efrat R, Nathan R, Pinter-Wollman N, Spiegel O. Behavioral plasticity shapes population aging patterns in a long-lived avian scavenger.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024.
  10. Guo X, Hasenjager MJ, Fefferman NH, Pinter-Wollman N. Social interactions among ants are impacted by food availability and group size.. Biology open, 2024.
  11. Dantzer B, Mabry KE, Bernhardt JR, Cox RM, Francis CD, Ghalambor CK, Hoke KL, Jha S, Ketterson E, Levis NA, McCain KM, Patricelli GL, Paull SH, Pinter-Wollman N, Safran RJ, Schwartz TS, Throop HL, Zaman L, Martin LB. Understanding Organisms Using Ecological Observatory Networks.. Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England), 2023.
  12. O'Fallon S, Drager K, Zhao A, Suarez A, Pinter-Wollman N. Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests.. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2023.
  13. Sharma N, Anglister N, Spiegel O, Pinter-Wollman N. Social situations differ in their contribution to population-level social structure in griffon vultures.. Ecology and evolution, 2023.
  14. Webber QMR, Albery GF, Farine DR, Pinter-Wollman N, Sharma N, Spiegel O, Vander Wal E, Manlove K. Behavioural ecology at the spatial-social interface.. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2023.
  15. Blumstein DT, Hayes LD, Pinter-Wollman N. Social consequences of rapid environmental change.. Trends in ecology & evolution, 2022.
  16. Barbee B, Pinter-Wollman N. Nutritional needs and mortality risk combine to shape foraging decisions in ants.. Current zoology, 2022.
  17. Madrzyk M, Pinter-Wollman N. Colonies of ants allocate exploratory individuals to where they are ecologically needed.. Current zoology, 2022.
  18. Michelangeli M, Martin JM, Pinter-Wollman N, Ioannou CC, McCallum ES, Bertram MG, Brodin T. Predicting the impacts of chemical pollutants on animal groups.. Trends in ecology & evolution, 2022.
  19. O'Fallon S, Lowell ESH, Daniels D, Pinter-Wollman N. Harvester ant nest architecture is more strongly affected by intrinsic than extrinsic factors.. Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 2022.
  20. Neumann K, Pinter-Wollman N. The effect of resource availability on interspecific competition between a native and an invasive ant.. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2022.
  21. McEntire KD, Gage M, Gawne R, Hadfield MG, Hulshof C, Johnson MA, Levesque DL, Segura J, Pinter-Wollman N. Understanding Drivers of Variation and Predicting Variability Across Levels of Biological Organization.. Integrative and comparative biology, 2022.
  22. Gadagkar R, Sharma N, Pinter-Wollman N. Queen succession in the Indian paper wasp Ropalidia marginata: On the trail of the potential queen.. Journal of biosciences, 2022.
  23. Miller JS, Wan E, O'Fallon S, Pinter-Wollman N. Modularity and connectivity of nest structure scale with colony size.. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2021.
  24. Hobson EA, Silk MJ, Fefferman NH, Larremore DB, Rombach P, Shai S, Pinter-Wollman N. A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis.. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2021.
  25. Wyman MT, Pinter-Wollman N, Mooring MS. Trade-offs between fighting and breeding: a social network analysis of bison male interactions.. Journal of mammalogy, 2021.
  26. Pinter-Wollman N, Keiser CN, Wollman R. Correction.. The American naturalist, 2020.
  27. Wright CM, Lichtenstein JLL, Luscuskie LP, Montgomery GA, Geary S, Pruitt JN, Pinter-Wollman N, Keiser CN. Spatial proximity and prey vibratory cues influence collective hunting in social spiders.. Israel journal of ecology & evolution, 2020.
  28. Smith JE, Pinter-Wollman N. Observing the unwatchable: Integrating automated sensing, naturalistic observations and animal social network analysis in the age of big data.. The Journal of animal ecology, 2020.
  29. Fisher DN, Pinter-Wollman N. Using multilayer network analysis to explore the temporal dynamics of collective behavior.. Current zoology, 2020.
  30. Bolnick DI, Sih A, DiRienzo N, Pinter-Wollman N. Authorship removal correction for 'Behavioural hypervolumes of spider communities predict community performance and disbandment'.. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020.
  31. Pinter-Wollman N. Authorship removal correction for 'The legacy effects of keystone individuals on collective behaviour scale to how long they remain within a group'.. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020.
  32. Pinter-Wollman N, Wright CM, Keiser CN, DeMarco A, Grobis MM. Retraction: The Achilles' heel hypothesis: misinformed keystone individuals impair collective learning and reduce group success.. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020.
  33. Cook CN, Lemanski NJ, Mosqueiro T, Ozturk C, Gadau J, Pinter-Wollman N, Smith BH. Individual learning phenotypes drive collective behavior.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020.
  34. Tong C, Najm GM, Pinter-Wollman N, Pruitt JN, Linksvayer TA. Comparative Genomics Identifies Putative Signatures of Sociality in Spiders.. Genome biology and evolution, 2020.
  35. Najm GM, Pe A, Pruitt JN, Pinter-Wollman N. Physical and social cues shape nest-site preference and prey capture behavior in social spiders.. Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 2020.
  36. McEwen BL, Lichtenstein JLL, Fisher DN, Wright CM, Chism GT, Pinter-Wollman N, Pruitt JN. Predictors of colony extinction vary by habitat type in social spiders.. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 2019.
  37. Lemanski NJ, Cook CN, Smith BH, Pinter-Wollman N. A Multiscale Review of Behavioral Variation in Collective Foraging Behavior in Honey Bees.. Insects, 2019.
  38. Hunt ER, Mi B, Geremew R, Fernandez C, Wong BM, Pruitt JN, Pinter-Wollman N. Resting networks and personality predict attack speed in social spiders.. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 2019.
  39. Pruitt JN, McEwen BL, Cassidy ST, Najm GM, Pinter-Wollman N. Experimental evidence of frequency-dependent selection on group behaviour.. Nature ecology & evolution, 2019.
  40. Neumann KM, Pinter-Wollman N. Collective responses to heterospecifics emerge from individual differences in aggression.. Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 2019.
  41. Finn KR, Silk MJ, Porter MA, Pinter-Wollman N. The use of multilayer network analysis in animal behaviour.. Animal behaviour, 2019.
  42. Page H, Sweeney A, Pilko A, Pinter-Wollman N. Underlying mechanisms and ecological context of variation in exploratory behavior of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile.. The Journal of experimental biology, 2018.
  43. Kamath A, Primavera SD, Wright CM, Doering GN, Sheehy KA, Pinter-Wollman N, Pruitt JN. Collective behavior and colony persistence of social spiders depends on their physical environment.. Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 2018.
  44. Cook CN, Mosqueiro T, Brent CS, Ozturk C, Gadau J, Pinter-Wollman N, Smith BH. Individual differences in learning and biogenic amine levels influence the behavioural division between foraging honeybee scouts and recruits.. The Journal of animal ecology, 2018.
  45. Pruitt JN, Berdahl A, Riehl C, Pinter-Wollman N, Moeller HV, Pringle EG, Aplin LM, Robinson EJH, Grilli J, Yeh P, Savage VM, Price MH, Garland J, Gilby IC, Crofoot MC, Doering GN, Hobson EA. Social tipping points in animal societies.. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2018.
  46. Hunt ER, Mi B, Fernandez C, Wong BM, Pruitt JN, Pinter-Wollman N. Social interactions shape individual and collective personality in social spiders.. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2018.
  47. Pinter-Wollman N, Penn A, Theraulaz G, Fiore SM. Interdisciplinary approaches for uncovering the impacts of architecture on collective behaviour.. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2018.
  48. Pinter-Wollman N, Jelic A, Wells NM. The impact of the built environment on health behaviours and disease transmission in social systems.. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2018.
  49. Silk MJ, Finn KR, Porter MA, Pinter-Wollman N. Can Multilayer Networks Advance Animal Behavior Research?. Trends in ecology & evolution, 2018.
  50. Pruitt JN, Wright CM, Lichtenstein JLL, Chism GT, McEwen BL, Kamath A, Pinter-Wollman N. Selection for Collective Aggressiveness Favors Social Susceptibility in Social Spiders.. Current biology : CB, 2017.
  51. Lichtenstein JLL, Wright CM, McEwen B, Pinter-Wollman N, Pruitt JN. The multidimensional behavioural hypervolumes of two interacting species predict their space use and survival.. Animal behaviour, 2017.
  52. Keiser CN, Pinter-Wollman N, Ziemba MJ, Kothamasu KS, Pruitt JN. The primary case is not enough: Variation among individuals, groups and social networks modify bacterial transmission dynamics.. The Journal of animal ecology, 2017.
  53. Mosqueiro T, Cook C, Huerta R, Gadau J, Smith B, Pinter-Wollman N. Task allocation and site fidelity jointly influence foraging regulation in honeybee colonies.. Royal Society open science, 2017.
  54. Wright CM, Lichtenstein JLL, Montgomery GA, Luscuskie LP, Pinter-Wollman N, Pruitt JN. Exposure to predators reduces collective foraging aggressiveness and eliminates its relationship with colony personality composition.. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 2017.
  55. Pinter-Wollman N, Fiore SM, Theraulaz G. The impact of architecture on collective behaviour.. Nature ecology & evolution, 2017.
  56. Pruitt JN, Howell KA, Gladney SJ, Yang Y, Lichtenstein JL, Spicer ME, Echeverri SA, Pinter-Wollman N. Behavioral Hypervolumes of Predator Groups and Predator-Predator Interactions Shape Prey Survival Rates and Selection on Prey Behavior.. The American naturalist, 2017.
  57. Lichtenstein JLL, Wright CM, Luscuskie LP, Montgomery GA, Pinter-Wollman N, Pruitt JN. Participation in cooperative prey capture and the benefits gained from it are associated with individual personality.. Current zoology, 2016.
  58. Keiser CN, Howell KA, Pinter-Wollman N, Pruitt JN. Personality composition alters the transmission of cuticular bacteria in social groups.. Biology letters, 2016.
  59. Pinter-Wollman N, Keiser CN, Wollman R, Pruitt JN. The Effect of Keystone Individuals on Collective Outcomes Can Be Mediated through Interactions or Behavioral Persistence.. The American naturalist, 2016.
  60. Keiser CN, Pinter-Wollman N, Augustine DA, Ziemba MJ, Hao L, Lawrence JG, Pruitt JN. Individual differences in boldness influence patterns of social interactions and the transmission of cuticular bacteria among group-mates.. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2016.
  61. Pruitt JN, Wright CM, Keiser CN, DeMarco AE, Grobis MM, Pinter-Wollman N. The Achilles' heel hypothesis: misinformed keystone individuals impair collective learning and reduce group success.. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2016.
  62. Pless E, Queirolo J, Pinter-Wollman N, Crow S, Allen K, Mathur MB, Gordon DM. Interactions Increase Forager Availability and Activity in Harvester Ants.. PloS one, 2015.
  63. Pinter-Wollman N. Nest architecture shapes the collective behaviour of harvester ants.. Biology letters, 2015.
  64. Udiani O, Pinter-Wollman N, Kang Y. Identifying robustness in the regulation of collective foraging of ant colonies using an interaction-based model with backward bifurcation.. Journal of theoretical biology, 2014.
  65. Hui A, Pinter-Wollman N. Individual variation in exploratory behaviour improves speed and accuracy of collective nest selection by Argentine ants.. Animal behaviour, 2014.
  66. Flanagan TP, Pinter-Wollman NM, Moses ME, Gordon DM. Fast and flexible: argentine ants recruit from nearby trails.. PloS one, 2013.
  67. Pinter-Wollman N, Bala A, Merrell A, Queirolo J, Stumpe MC, Holmes S, Gordon DM. Harvester ants use interactions to regulate forager activation and availability.. Animal behaviour, 2013.
  68. Gordon DM, Dektar KN, Pinter-Wollman N. Harvester ant colony variation in foraging activity and response to humidity.. PloS one, 2013.
  69. Jandt JM, Bengston S, Pinter-Wollman N, Pruitt JN, Raine NE, Dornhaus A, Sih A. Behavioural syndromes and social insects: personality at multiple levels.. Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2013.
  70. Greene MJ, Pinter-Wollman N, Gordon DM. Interactions with combined chemical cues inform harvester ant foragers' decisions to leave the nest in search of food.. PloS one, 2013.
  71. Pinter-Wollman N, Gordon DM, Holmes S. Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies.. Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 2012.
  72. Pinter-Wollman N, Wollman R, Guetz A, Holmes S, Gordon DM. The effect of individual variation on the structure and function of interaction networks in harvester ants.. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2011.
  73. Pinter-Wollman N, Isbell LA, Hart LA. The relationship between social behaviour and habitat familiarity in African elephants (Loxodonta africana).. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2009.
  74. Hart BL, Hart LA, Pinter-Wollman N. Large brains and cognition: where do elephants fit in?. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2007.
  75. Carey JR, Pinter-Wollman N, Wyman M, Müller HG, Molleman F, Zhang N. A search for principles of disability using experimental impairment of Drosophila melanogaster.. Experimental gerontology, 2006.