Ricardo Ayala

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México — Mexico

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(82), Insect and Pesticide Research(60), Plant Parasitism and Resistance(33), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(28), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control(15)

Publications101 total

Species turnover and interaction rewiring shape seasonal dynamics of bee‐plant networks in Neotropical coastal dunes
Ecological Entomology·2025· 1 cited
Size-dependent variation in thermal tolerance among tropical bee species
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025
Author response for "Size-dependent variation in thermal tolerance among tropical bee species"
2025
Author response for "Size-dependent variation in thermal tolerance among tropical bee species"
2025
Taxonomic revision and distribution of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Mesoplia (Apidae: Ericrocidini) from Mexico and Central America
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad·2025Open Access
Author response for "Size-dependent variation in thermal tolerance among tropical bee species"
2025
Neotropical bees of the genus Heriades Spinola, 1808 (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae: Osmiini) with description of nine new species
Zootaxa·2025Open Access
Temporal decay of similarity in bee-plant relationships throughout the day
Oecologia·2024· 2 cited
Thermal tolerance and sociality explain the interactive role of bees in a pollination network
Oikos·2024· 5 cited
Revealing the Baja California Peninsula’s Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
Zootaxa·2024· 3 cited
A new wave of Mesoamerican bumblebees? Revising the weisi-complex to reject numts and pseudospecies (Apidae: Bombus)
Zootaxa·2024· 2 cited
Biomechanical properties of non-flight vibrations produced by bees
Journal of Experimental Biology·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Biomechanical properties of defence vibrations produced by bees
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Drivers of flower visit and resource sharing between the honeybee and native bees in Neotropical coastal sand dunes
Die Naturwissenschaften·2024· 6 cited
Stingless bee classification and biology (Hymenoptera, Apidae): a review, with an updated key to genera and subgenera
ZooKeys·2023· 104 citedOpen Access
Atlas de los Bombus de México
Ediciones Comunicación Científica eBooks·2023Open Access
Seven new species of Lasioglossum (Dialictus) Robertson, 1902 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini) from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
European Journal of Taxonomy·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
THE NEOTROPICAL SPECIES OF SMALL CARPENTER BEES OF THE SUBGENUS CERATINA (ZADONTOMERUS) ASHMEAD, 1899 (HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE)
Zootaxa·2022· 2 cited
The first Pacific insular orchid bee (Hymenoptera, Apidae): A new species of Eufriesea from the Islas Marías
Journal of Hymenoptera Research·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Revision of carpenter bees of the subgenus Neoxylocopa Michener (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from Mexico and Mesoamerica
Zootaxa·2022· 9 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Hugo Delfín‐González(7), Michael S. Engel(6), Víctor H. González(4), Virginia Meléndez-Ramírez(4), José Javier G. Quezada‐Euán(4), Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz(4), Humberto Moo‐Valle(3), Felipe A. Noguera(3), Alicia Rodríguez-Palafox(3), Enrique González‐Soriano(3), Virginia Meléndez Ramírez(3), Enrique Ramírez‐García(3), Stephen H. Bullock(3), Terry Griswold(3), Patricia Balvanera(2), Vı́ctor J. Jaramillo(2), Angelina Martínez‐Yrizar(2), Helena Cotler(2), Patricia Landaverde‐González(2), Martin Husemann(2)