Carlo, T. A., J. Tewksbury, and C. Martínez del Rio. 2009. A new method to track seed dispersal and recruitment using 15N isotope enrichment. Ecology

Wolf, B. O. and C. Martínez del Rio. 2003. How important are CAM succulents as sources of water and nutrients for desert consumers? A review. Isotopes in Environment and Health Science 39: 53-67.

Martínez del Rio, C., B. O. Wolf, and R. Haughey. 2003. Saguaros and white-winged doves: the natural history of an uneasy partnership. In Nabhan, G. (ed.). Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America. Univ. of California Press

Wolf, B. O., J. Babson, and C. Martínez del Rio. 2002. Saguaros, doves, and isotopes: differential water and carbon acquisition by animals feeding on a single resource. Ecology 83(3): 1286-1293.

Schondube, J. E. and C. Martínez del Rio. 2002 A bill with a hook: experimental evidence of a tradeoff in the morphology of flowerpiercers. Proceedings of The Royal Society of London B. 1511: 195-198.

Aukema, J. and C. Martínez del Rio. 2002 Where do fruit-eating birds deposit mistletoe seeds? Seed deposition patterns and an experiment. Ecology 83: 3489-3496.

Aukema, J. and C. Martínez del Rio. 2002. Inter- and intraspecific variation in mistletoe seed deposition. Ecogeography 25(2): 139-144.

Aukema, J. and C. Martínez del Rio. 2002.  Mistletoes as parasites and seed-dispersing birds as disease vectors: current understanding, challenges, and opportunities. Pages 99-110 in Levey, D. J., Silva, W. R., and M. Galetti.  (eds.)Seed Dispersal and Frugivory: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation.  CABI International Press. Oxfordshire.  UK.

Levey, D. J. and C. Martínez del Rio. 2001. It takes guts (and more…) to eat fruit: Lessons  from avian nutritional ecology. The Auk 118: 819-830.

Wolf, B. O. and C. Martínez del Rio. 2000. Use of saguaro fruit by White-winged doves: isotopic evidence of a tight ecological association. Oecologia 124: 536-543.

Martínez del Rio, C., M. E. Hourdequin, A. Silva, and R. Medel. 1995. Seed deposition and prevalence of the mistletoe Tristerix (Loranthaceae) on cacti: the effect of cactus size and perch selection of seed dispersers. Aust. J. Ecol. 20: 41-46.

Martínez del Rio, C. 1994. Nutritional ecology in nectar- and fruit-eating volant vertebrates. Pages 103-127 in Chivers, D. and P. Langer (eds.) Food and form and function of the mammalian digestive tract. Cambridge University Press.

Martínez del Rio C. and S. H. Bullock. 1991. Parasitismo floral por abejas sociales (Trigona spp) en el arbol quiropterófilo Crescentia alata (Bignoniaceae). Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica Mexicana 50: 69-76.

Arita, H. T. and C. Martínez del Rio. 1990. Interacciones flor-murciélago: un enfoque zoocéntrico. Publicaciones Especiales 4, Instituto de Biología, UNAM, México.

Gryj, E., C. Martínez del Rio and  I. Baker. 1990. Avian pollination and nectar  use in Combretum fruticosum  Biotropica 22: 266-271.

Martínez del Rio, C. 1990. Sugar preferences in hummingbirds: the influence of subtle chemical differences on food choice. The Condor 92: 1022-1030.

Martínez del Rio, C. 1990. Dietary and phylogenetic correlates of intestinal sucrase and maltase activity in birds. Physiological Zoology  63: 987- 1011.

Martínez del Rio, C. and W. H. Karasov. 1990. Digestion strategies in fruit and nectar eating birds and the sugar composition of plant rewards. The American Naturalist 136: 618-637.

Martínez del Rio, C. W. H. Karasov and D. J. Levey. 1989. Physiological basis and ecological correlates of sugar preferences in a North American  frugivore, the Cedar Waxwing. The Auk 106: 64-71.

Bullock, S. H., C. Martínez del Rio and R. Ayala. 1989.  Bee visitation to trees of  Prockia crucis differing in flower number. Oecologia 78: 389-393.

Eguiarte, L. E., C. Martínez del Rio and H. Arita. 1987. El polen y néctar como recursos: el papel ecológico de los visitantes a las flores de Pseudobombax ellipticum H.B.K. Biotropica 19: 74-82.

Martínez del Rio, C. and L. E. Eguiarte. 1987.  Bird visitation to Agave salmiana:  comparison among hummingbirds and perching birds.Condor 89: 357-363.

Martinez del Rio, C. and A. Búrquez. 1986. Nectar production and temperature  dependent  pollination in Mirabilis jalapa L. Biotropica 18: 28-31.

Soberón J. and C. Martínez del Rio. 1985. Cheating and taking advantage in mutualistic systems. In  Boucher, D. (Ed.). The biology of mutualism. Croom-Helm, London.  

Soberón, J. and C. Martínez del Rio. 1981. The dynamics of a plant-pollinator interaction. Journal of Theoretical Biology 91: 363-378.