Publications

Ritger, A.L., and Hofmann, G.E. Bringing Heatwaves into the Lab: A low-cost, open-source, and automated system to simulate realistic heating events in an experimental setting. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods.

Chan, K.Y.K., Kui, L., McDonald, A.M., Ritger, A.L., and Hofmann, G.E. 2024. Coastal marine heatwaves in the Santa Barbara Channel: decadal trends and ecological implications. Frontiers in Marine Science 11: 1476542. PDF

Ritger, A.L. and Burnett, D.C. 2024. A Wirelessly-Enabled, Power-Optimized, Low-Cost, and Open-Source Durafet-based pH Instrument for Continuous, Long Term Environmental Monitoring. OCEANS 2024 - Singapore: 1-6. PDF

Ritger, A.L. and Burnett, D.C. 2023. Developing Low-Cost, Simplified, and Open-Source Durafet-based pH Instrument Electronics. OCEANS 2023 - Limerick: 1-7. PDF

Hart, T., Frank, D., Lopes, L.E., Olivos-Cisneros, L., Lacy, K.D., Trible, W., Ritger, A., Valdés-Rodríguez, S., and Kronauer, D.J.C. 2023. Sparse and stereotyped encoding implicates a core glomerulus for ant alarm behavior. Cell 186: 1-16. PDF

Ingeman, K.E., Zhao, L.Z., Wolf, C., Williams, D.R., Ritger, A.L., Ripple, W.J., Kopecky, K.L., Dillon, E.M., DiFiore, B.P., Curtis, J.S., Csik, S.R., Bui, A., and Stier, A.C. 2022. Glimmers of hope in large carnivore recoveries. Scientific Reports 12(1): 1-13. PDF

Trout-Haney, J.V., Ritger, A.L., and Cottingham, K.L. 2021. Benthic cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc are a source of microcystins in Greenlandic lakes and ponds. Freshwater Biology 66: 266-277. PDF

Ritger, A.L., Fountain, T.C., Bourne, K., Martín-Fernández, J.A., and Pierotti, M.E.R. 2020. Diet choice in a generalist predator, the invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 524: 151311. PDF

Chandra, V., Fetter-Pruneda, I., Oxley, P.R., Ritger, A.L., McKenzie, S.K., Libbrecht, R., and Kronauer, D.J.C. 2018. Social regulation of insulin signaling and the evolution of eusociality in ants. Science 361(6400): 398-402. PDF

Ritger, A.L., Curtis, A., and Chen, C.Y. 2018. Bioaccumulation of mercury and other metal contaminants in invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) from Curaçao. Marine Pollution Bulletin 131: 38-44. PDF