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: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Brower LP, Taylor OR, Williams EH. 2012. Response to Davis: choosing relevant evidence to assess monarch population trends. Insect Conservation and Diversity 5: 327-329.
Category: Supporting research, Habitat
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Saenz-Romero C, Rehfeldt GE, Duval P, Lindig-Cisneros RA. 2012. Abies religiosa habitat prediction in climatic change scenarios and implications for monarch butterfly conservation in Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management 275: 98-106.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Brower LP, Taylor OR, Williams EH, Slayback DA, Zubieta RR, Ramirez MI. 2012. Decline of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico: is the migratory phenomenon at risk? Insect Conservation and Diversity 5: 95-100.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Flockhart DTT, Martin TG, Norris DR. 2012. Experimental Examination of Intraspecific Density-Dependent Competition during the Breeding Period in Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus). Plos One 7.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Davis AK. 2012. Are migratory monarchs really declining in eastern North America? Examining evidence from two fall census programs. Insect Conservation and Diversity 5: 101-105.
Category: Supporting research, Hostplant biology
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Baum KA, Sharber WV. 2012. Fire creates host plant patches for monarch butterflies. Biology Letters 8: 968-971.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Barve N, et al. 2012. Climate-change and mass mortality events in overwintering monarch butterflies. Revista Mexicana De Biodiversidad 83: 817-824.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Suetsugu K, Mutoh A, Kato S, Kunitachi T, Itoh H. 2012. Emergence of migration behavior and adaptiogenesis to environments with sensory agents: Multigenerational migration of the monarch butterfly. Electronics and Communications in Japan 95: 46-55.
Category: Supporting research, Hostplant biology
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Agrawal AA, Petschenka G, Bingham RA, Weber MG, Rasmann S. 2012. Toxic cardenolides: chemical ecology and coevolution of specialized plant-herbivore interactions. New Phytologist 194: 28.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Petschenka G, Offe JK, Dobler S. 2012. Physiological screening for target site insensitivity and localization of Na+K+-ATPase in cardenolide-adapted Lepidoptera. Journal of insect physiology 58: 607.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Oberhauser K. 2012. Tachinid flies and Monarch butterflies: citizen scientists document parasitism Patterns over broad spatial and temporal scales. American Entomologist 58.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Howard E, Davis AK. 2012. Mortality of migrating monarch butterflies from a wind storm on the shore of Lake Michigan, USA. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 45:49-54.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Davis AK, Nibbelink NP, Howard E. 2012. Identifying large-and small-scale habitat characteristics of monarch butterfly migratory roost sites with citizen science observations. International Journal of Zoology 2012.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Mebs D, Wagner MG, Toennes SW, Wunder C, Boppre M. 2012. Selective sequestration of cardenolide isomers by two species of Danaus butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Danainae). Chemoecology 22: 269.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 2012
Aardema ML, Zhen Y, Andolfatto P. 2012. The evolution of cardenolide-resistant forms of Na+, K+-ATPase in Danainae butterflies. Molecular ecology 21: 340.
Pages
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.