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: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Dockx C. 2007. Directional and stabilizing selection on wing size and shape in migrant and resident monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus (L.), in Cuba. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 92: 605-616.
Category: Other
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Farfan B, Casas A, Ibarra-Manriquez G, Perez-Negron E. 2007. Mazahua ethnobotany and subsistence in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Economic Botany 61: 173-191.
Category: Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Slayback, D.A., Brower, L.P., Ramirez, M.I., Fink, L.S., 2007. Establishing the presence
and absence of overwintering colonies of the monarch butterfly in Mexico by
the use of small aircraft. Am. Entomol. 53, 28-40.
Parasitism of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) by Lespesia archippivora (Diptera : Tachinidae)
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Oberhauser K, Gebhard I, Cameron C, Oberhauser S. 2007. Parasitism of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) by Lespesia archippivora (Diptera : Tachinidae). American Midland Naturalist 157: 312-328.
Category: Monarch research, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Williams JJ, Stow DA, Brower LP. 2007. The influence of forest fragmentation on the location of overwintering monarch butterflies in central Mexico. Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 61: 90.
Category: Monarch research, GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Prasifka PL, Hellmich RL, Prasifka JR, Lewis LC. 2007. Effects of Cry1Ab-expressing corn anthers on the movement of monarch butterfly larvae. Environmental Entomology 36: 228-233.
Category: Supporting research, Habitat
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Ramirez MI, Miranda R, Zubieta R, Jimenez M. 2007. Land Cover and Road Network Map for the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, 2003. Journal of Maps: 181-190.
Category: Monarch research, Evolution/range
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Hay-Roe MM, Lamas G, Nation JL. 2007. Pre- and postzygotic isolation and Haldane rule effects in reciprocal crosses of Danaus erippus and Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera : Danainae), supported by differentiation of cuticular hydrocarbons, establish their st
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2007
Batalden RV, Oberhauser K, Peterson AT. 2007. Ecological niches in sequential generations of eastern North American monarch butterflies (Lepidoptera : Danaidae): The ecology of migration and likely climate change implications. Environmental Entomology 36:
Category: Monarch research, Orientation
Type: Article
Year: 2006
Stalleicken J, Labhart T, Mouritsen H. 2006a. Physiological characterization of the compound eye in monarch butterflies with focus on the dorsal rim area. Journal of Comparative Physiology a-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 192: 321-
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 2006
Stalleicken J, Mouritsen H, Frost B, Mukhida M. 2006b. Compass orientation and spatiotemporal orientation strategies in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology a-Molecular & Integrative Physiology 143: S75-S75.
Category: Monarch research, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 2006
Gil F. 2006. A new hostplant for Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Europe. A study of cryptic preimaginal polymorphism within Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758) in southern Spain (Andalusia)(Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Danainae). Atalanta 37.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 2006
Rudolph DC, Ely CA, Schaefer RR, Williamson JH, Thill RE. 2006. Monarch (Danaus plexippus L. Nymphalidae) migration, nectar resources and fire regimes in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 2006
Brower LP, Fink LS, Walford P. 2006. Fueling the fall migration of the Monarch butterfly. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46: 1123-1142.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2006
Gibbs D, Walton R, Brower L, Davis AK. 2006. Monarch butterfly (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) migration monitoring at Chincoteague, Virginia and Cape May, New Jersey: A comparison of long-term trends. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 79: 156-164.
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