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: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Book Chapter
Year: 1993
Cockrell BJ, Malcolm SB, Brower LP. 1993. Time, Temperature, and Latitudinal Constraints on the Annual Recolonization of Eastern North America by the Monarch Butterfly. Pages 233-252 in Malcolm SB, Zalucki MP, eds. Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly. Los Angeles, USA: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Malcolm SB, Cockrell BJ, Brower LP. 1992. Continental-scale host plant use by a specialist insect herbivore: milkweeds, cardenolides and the monarch butterfly. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships Pages 43: Springer
Category: Monarch research, Overwinter dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Alonso-Mejia A, Arellanoguillermo A, Brower LP. 1992. Influence of temperature, surface body moisture and height aboveground on survival of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico. Biotropica 24: 415-419.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Martin RA, Lynch SP, Brower LP, Malcolm SB, Hook TV. 1992. Cardenolide content, emetic potency, and thin-layer chromatography profiles of monarch butterflies,Danaus plexippus, and their larval host-plant milkweed,Asclepias humistrata, in Florida. Chemoeco
Category: Commentary or review
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Wells H, Wells PH. 1992. The monarch butterfly: A review. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 91: 1.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Oberhauser KS. 1992. Rate of ejaculate breakdown and intermating intervals in monarch butterflies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 31: 367-373.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Leong KLH, Kaya HK, Yoshimura MA, Frey DF. 1992. The occurrence and effect of a protozoan parasite, Ophryocystis-elektroscirrha (Neogregarinida, Ophryocystidae) on overwintering monarch butterflies, Danaus-plexippus (Lepidoptera, Danaidae) from 2 Californ
Category: Monarch research, Overwinter dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Calvert WH, Brower LP, Lawton RO. 1992. Mass flight response of overwintering monarch butterflies (Nymphalidae) to cloud-induced changes in solar radiation intensity in Mexico. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society (USA).
Category: Monarch research, GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Leong KLH, Yoshimura MA, Kaya HK. 1992. Low susceptibility of overwintering monarch butterflies to Bacillus-thuringiensis Berliner. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 68: 66-68.
Category: Monarch research, Physiology/behavior
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Hughes JM, Zalucki MP, Carter PA. 1992. Consistent differences among individual monarch butterflies (Danaus-plexippus L) in flight activity at low-temperatures. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 47: 217-231.
Category: Monarch research, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Zalucki MP, Brower LP. 1992. Survival of first instar larvae ofDanaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Danainae) in relation to cardiac glycoside and latex content ofAsclepias humistrata (Asclepiadaceae). Chemoecology 3: 81.
Category: Monarch research, Overwinter dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Frey D, Leong KLH, Fredericks D, Raskowitz S. 1992. Clustering patterns of monarch butterflies (Lepidoptera, Danaidae) at 2 California central coast overwintering sites. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 85: 148-153.
Category: Monarch research, GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 1992
Bolsinger M, Lier ME, Hughes PR. 1992. Influence of ozone air-pollution on plant-herbivore interactions .2. Effects of ozone on feeding preference, growth and consumptions rates of monarch butterflies (Danaus-Plexippus). Environmental Pollution 77: 31-37.
Category: Monarch research, Migration
Type: Article
Year: 1991
Brower AVZ, Boyce TM. 1991. Mitochondrial-DNA variation in monarch butterflies. Evolution 45: 1281-1286.
Category: Monarch research, Resource use
Type: Article
Year: 1991
Weiss SB, Rich PM, Murphy DD, Calvert WH, Ehrlich PR. 1991. Forest canopy structure at overwintering monarch butterfly sites - measurements with hemispherical photography. Conservation Biology 5: 165-175.
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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.