Welcome to the monarch library! Our goal is to include all peer-reviewed articles on monarch biology with links to sites that will give you the easiest direct access to each article. Please contact leslie.ries@georgetown.edu if you 1) know of an article not included, 2) find a mistake in any of the listed articles, 3) know of a better link to access an article. Thanks! With your help we can provide the most complete, informative access to all papers on monarch biology.
Library
Field Definitions
First author: Last name of the first author
Type: Article or book chapter
Year: Publication year
Source: Journal or book
Category*: Broad scope of the publication.
Research topic (monarch & supporting research only)*: Specific topic.
Geographic focus*: Geographic setting for field studies.
Monitoring data used: Data from monitoring or public data efforts.
* Full list
996 result(s)
Category: Migration, Natural enemies, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2021
James, David G.; Kappen, Linda. 2021. "Further Insights on the Migration Biology of Monarch Butterflies, Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the Pacific Northwest" Insects 12, no. 2: 161. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12020161
Category: GMO/toxins, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Shephard, A.M., Mitchell, T.S., Snell-Rood, E.C. 2021. Monarch caterpillars are robust to combined exposure to the roadside micronutrients sodium and zinc. Conservation Physiology 9(1): 1-15 | https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coab061.
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Freedman, MG, de Roode, JC, Forister, ML, et al. Are eastern and western monarch butterflies distinct populations? A review of evidence for ecological, phenotypic, and genetic differentiation and implications for conservation. Conservation Science and Practice. 2021; 3:e432. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.432
Category: Migration, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Momeni-Dehaghi, I., Bennett, J. R., Mitchell, G. W., Rytwinski, T., & Fahrig, L. (2021). Mapping the premigration distribution of eastern Monarch butterflies using community science data. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 11275– 11281. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7912
Category: Population dynamics, Monarch research
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Zylstra, E.R., Ries, L., Neupane, N. et al. Changes in climate drive recent monarch butterfly dynamics. Nat Ecol Evol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01504-1
Category: Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Kelsey E Fisher, Steven P Bradbury, Estimating Perceptual Range of Female Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) to Potted Vegetative Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and Blooming Nectar Resources, Environmental Entomology, 2021;, nvab058, https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvab058
Category: Migration, Techniques
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Merlin, C, Iiams, SE, Lugena, AB. 2020. Monarch Butterfly Migration Moving into the Genetic Era. Trends in Genetics, 36(9):689-701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2020.06.011.
Category: Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Felipe Dargent, Sydney M. Gilmour, Emma A. Brown, Rees Kassen, and Heather M. Kharouba. Low prevalence of the parasite Ophryocystis elektroscirrha at the range edge of the eastern North American monarch (Danaus plexippus) butterfly population. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 99(5): 409-413. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2020-0175
Category:
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Forister ML, Halsch CA, Nice CC, Fordyce JA, Dilts TE, Oliver JC, Prudic KL, Shapiro AM, Wilson JK, Glassberg J. Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West. Science. 2021 Mar 5;371(6533):1042-1045. doi: 10.1126/science.abe5585. PMID: 33674492.
Category: Evolution/range, Physiology/behavior, Hostplant dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Agrawal AA, Böröczky K, Haribal M, Hastings AP, White RA, Jiang RW, Duplais C. Cardenolides, toxicity, and the costs of sequestration in the coevolutionary interaction between monarchs and milkweeds. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Apr 20;118(16):e2024463118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2024463118. PMID: 33850021; PMCID: PMC8072370.
Category: GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Adams, K.L., Aljohani, A., Chavez, J. et al. Effects of cardenolides of milkweed plants on immunity of the monarch butterfly. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 15, 249–252 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11829-021-09812-w
Category: GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Cardenolides, toxicity, and the costs of sequestration in the coevolutionary interaction between monarchs and milkweeds
Anurag A. Agrawal, Katalin Böröczky, Meena Haribal, Amy P. Hastings, Ronald A. White, Ren-Wang Jiang, Christophe Duplais
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Apr 2021, 118 (16) e2024463118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2024463118
Category: Resource use, Monarch research
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Adrienne K Antonsen, Katherine C Kral-O’Brien, Torre J Hovick, Ryan F Limb, Benjamin A Geaumont, Jason P Harmon, Intra-annual Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Monarch Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Danaidae), Regal Fritillary (Lepidoptera: Heliconiinae), and Their Floral Resources in North Dakota, United States, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2021;, saab013, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saab013
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Crone EE, Schultz CB. Resilience or Catastrophe? A possible state change for monarch butterflies in western North America. Ecology Letters. 2021;24:1533–1538. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13816
Category: Overwinter dynamics, Habitat, Conservation/social dimensions
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Gómez-Pineda, E., Blanco-García, A., Lindig-Cisneros, R. et al. Pinus pseudostrobus assisted migration trial with rain exclusion: maintaining Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve forest cover in an environment affected by climate change. New Forests (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-021-09838-1
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