Davidson, D. W. 1977a. Species diversity and community organization in desert seed-eating ants. Ecology 58:711-724.

Davidson, D. W. 1977b. Foraging ecology and community organization in desert seed-eating ants. Ecology 58:725-737.

Davidson, D. W. 1978. Size variability in the worker caste of a social insect (Veromessor pergandei Mayr) as a function of the competitive environment. American Naturalist 112:523-532. PDF

Brown, J. H.; Davidson, D. W.; Reichman, O. J. 1979. An experimental study of competition between seed-eating desert rodents and ants. American Zoologist 19:1129-1143.

Morton, S. R.; Davidson, D. W. 1988. Comparative structure of harvester ant communities in arid Australia and North America. Ecological Monographs 58:19-38.

Davidson, D. W.; Foster, R. B.; Snelling, R. R.; Lozada, P. W. 1991. Variable composition of some tropical ant-plant symbioses. Pp. 145-162 in: Price, P. W.; Lewinsohn, T. M.; Fernandes, G. W.; Benson, W. W. (eds.) 1991. Plant-animal interactions. Evolutionary ecology in tropical and temperate regions. New York: J. Wiley, xiv + 639 pp.

McKey, D.; Davidson, D. W. 1993. Ant-plant symbioses in Africa and the Neotropics: history, biogeography and diversity. Pp. 568-606 in: Goldblatt, P. (ed.) 1993. Biological relationships between Africa and South America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 630 pp.

Davidson, D. W.; McKey, D. 1993a. The evolutionary ecology of symbiotic ant-plant relationships. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2:13-83.

Davidson, D. W.; McKey, D. 1993b. Ant-plant symbioses: stalking the Chuyachaqui. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8:326-332.

Davidson, D. W. 1997. The role of resource imbalances in the evolutionary ecology of tropical arboreal ants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 61:153-181.

Davidson, D. W.; Cook, S. C.; Snelling, R. R.; Chua, T. H. 2003. Explaining the abundance of ants in lowland tropical rainforest canopies. Science (Washington, D. C.) 300:969-972. PDF

Davidson, D. W.; Cook, S. C.; Snelling, R. R. 2004. Liquid-feeding performances of ants (Formicidae): ecological and evolutionary implications. Oecologia (Berlin) 139:255-266. PDF

Jones, T. H.; Clark, D. A.; Edwards, A. A.; Davidson, D. W.; Spande, T. F.; Snelling, R. R. 2004. The chemistry of exploding ants, Camponotus spp. (cylindricus complex). Journal of Chemical Ecology 30:1479-1492. PDF

Davidson, D. W.; Clark, D. A.; Jones, T. H. 2005. Gastral exocrine products of a myrmicine ant strongly overlap pygidial gland products of Dolichoderinae. Insectes Sociaux 52:305-308. PDF