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
995 result(s)
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: GMO/toxins, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Grant, T.J., Krishnan, N. and Bradbury, S.P. (2021), Conservation risks and benefits of establishing monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) breeding habitats close to maize and soybean fields in the north central United States: A landscape-scale analysis of the impact of foliar insecticide on nonmigratory monarch butterfly populations. Integr Environ Assess Manag, 17: 989-1002.
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: 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: 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, 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: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 2021
Fordyce JA, Nice CC and Forister ML. (2020) Commentary: Evaluating the Migration Mortality Hypothesis Using Monarch Tagging Data. Front. Ecol. Evol. 8:604914. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.604914
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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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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.