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
984 result(s)
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: GMO/toxins, Environmental performance, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Knight, SM, Flockhart, DTT, Derbyshire, R, Bosco, MG, Norris, DR. Experimental field evidence shows milkweed contaminated with a common neonicotinoid decreases larval survival of monarch butterflies. J Anim Ecol. 2021; 90: 1742– 1752. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13492
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: 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: 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
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: Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2020
Brym MZ, Henry C, Lukashow-Moore SP, Henry BJ, van Gestel N, Kendall RJ. Prevalence of monarch (Danaus plexippus) and queen (Danaus gilippus) butterflies in West Texas during the fall of 2018. BMC Ecol. 2020 Jun 12;20(1):33. doi: 10.1186/s12898-020-00301-x. PMID: 32532338; PMCID: PMC7291465.
Category: GMO/toxins, Monarch research
Type: Article
Year: 2020
Halsch CA, Code A, Hoyle SM, Fordyce JA, Baert N and Forister ML (2020) Pesticide Contamination of Milkweeds Across the Agricultural, Urban, and Open Spaces of Low-Elevation Northern California. Front. Ecol. Evol. 8:162. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00162
Category: Resource use, Habitat, Hostplant biology
Type: Article
Year: 2020
Lukens L, Kasten K, Stenoien C, Cariveau A, Caldwell W and Oberhauser K. (2020) Monarch Habitat in Conservation Grasslands. Front. Ecol. Evol. 8:13. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00013
Category: GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 2020
Bargar TA, Hladik ML, Daniels JC. 2020. Uptake and toxicity of clothianidin to monarch butterflies from milkweed consumption. PeerJ 8:e8669 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8669
Category: Physiology/behavior, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 2020
Bode-Oke AT, Dong H. 2020 The reverse flight of a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is characterized by a weight-supporting upstroke and
postural changes. J. R. Soc. Interface 17: 20200268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0268
Category: Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 2020
Andrew K. Davis "Evaluating Cardiac Reactions of Monarch Butterflies to Human Handling across Three Life Stages," The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 74(1), 43-50, (16 March 2020). https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.74i1.a5
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This database is a work in progress and is likely to contain several omissions and mistakes.
Please contact leslie.ries@georgetown.edu with any additions or corrections.