| Fire ant mound densities in the United States and Brazil (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) SD Porter, HG Fowler, WP Mackay Journal of Economic Entomology 85 (4), 1154-1161, 1992 | 197 | 1992 |
| A comparison of the nest phenologies of three species of Pogonomyrmex harvester ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) WP MacKay Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 88, 25-74, 1981 | 160 | 1981 |
| The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) WP MacKay, E Mackay Edwin Mellen Press, 2002 | 150 | 2002 |
| Clave de los géneros de hormigas en México (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) WP Mackay, E Mackay Memorias del II simposio nacional de insectos sociales, 1-82, 1989 | 135 | 1989 |
| Systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) W Mackay, E Mackay | 118 | 2010 |
| Rainfall and decomposition in the Chihuahuan Desert WG Whitford, Y Steinberger, W MacKay, LW Parker, D Freckman, ... Oecologia 68, 512-515, 1986 | 118 | 1986 |
| A review of the New World ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). WP MacKay | 111 | 1993 |
| The effect of predation of western widow spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) on harvester ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) WP MacKay Oecologia 53, 406-411, 1982 | 103 | 1982 |
| Effect of increased soil moisture and reduced soil temperature on a desert soil arthropod community WP Mackay, S Silva, DC Lightfoot, MI Pagani, WG Whitford American Midland Naturalist, 45-56, 1986 | 85 | 1986 |
| Unravelling the diversity behind the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (Ophiocordycipitaceae) complex: Three new species of zombie-ant fungi from the Brazilian Amazon JPM Araújo, HC Evans, DM Geiser, WP Mackay, DP Hughes Phytotaxa 220 (3), 224–238-224–238, 2015 | 84 | 2015 |
| The systematics and biology of the New World thief ants of the genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) JA Pacheco, WP Mackay, J Lattke Edwin Mellen Press, 2013 | 74 | 2013 |
| A review of the New World ants of the subgenus Myrafant,(Genus Leptothorax)(Hymenoptera: Formicidae). WP Mackay Sociobiology 36 (2), 2000 | 73 | 2000 |
| Impact of the slashing and burning of a tropical rain forest on the native ant fauna(Hymenoptera: Formicidae). WP MacKay, MA Rebeles, BHC Arredondo, RAD Rodriguez, ... Sociobiology 18 (3), 257-268, 1991 | 73 | 1991 |
| The role of ants and termites in desert communities WP MacKay The ecology of desert communities, 113-150, 1991 | 72 | 1991 |
| Windows of opportunity in desert ecosystems: their implications to fungal community development JC Zak, R Sinsabaugh, WP MacKay Canadian Journal of Botany 73 (S1), 1407-1414, 1995 | 68 | 1995 |
| A comparison of the energy budgets of three species of Pogonomyrmex harvester ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) WP MacKay Oecologia 66, 484-494, 1985 | 67 | 1985 |
| A guide to species identification of New World ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). WP MacKay, SB Vinson | 65 | 1989 |
| Introducción al estudio de las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Colombia F Fernández, E Palacio, WP MacKay, E Mackay Andrade MG, García, GA, and F. Fernández (eds)(2003) Insectos de Colombia …, 1996 | 59 | 1996 |
| The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity JM Kass, B Guénard, KL Dudley, CN Jenkins, F Azuma, BL Fisher, ... Science advances 8 (31), eabp9908, 2022 | 57 | 2022 |
| Population dynamics of a playa community in the Chihuahuan desert WP MacKay, SJ Loring, TM Frost, WG Whitford The Southwestern Naturalist, 393-402, 1990 | 54 | 1990 |
