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
27 result(s)
Category: Monarch research, Environmental performance
Type: Book Chapter
Year: 2015
Nail KR, Batalden RV, Oberhauser KS. 2015. What's too hot and what's too cold? Lethal and sub-lethal effects of extreme temperatures on developing monarchs in Oberhauser KS, Nail KR, Altizer SM, eds. Monarchs in a Changing World: Biology and Conservation of an Iconic Insect. Ithaca, USA: Cornell University Press.
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2014
Flockhart DTT, Pichancourt JB, Norris DR, Martin TG. 2014. Unravelling the annual cycle in a migratory animal: breeding-season habitat loss drives population declines of monarch butterflies. Journal of Animal Ecology Online early
Category: Monarch research, Population dynamics
Type: Article
Year: 2013
Pleasants JM, Oberhauser KS. 2013. Milkweed loss in agricultural fields because of herbicide use: effect on the monarch butterfly population. Insect Conservation and Diversity 6: 135-144.
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
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, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2011
Bartel RA, Oberhauser KS, De Roode JC, Altizer SM. 2011. Monarch butterfly migration and parasite transmission in eastern North America. Ecology 92: 342-351.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Article
Year: 2009
Lindsey E, Mehta M, Dhulipala V, Oberhauser K, Altizer S. 2009. Crowding and disease: effects of host density on response to infection in a butterfly-parasite interaction. Ecological Entomology 34: 551.
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:
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, Population dynamics
Type: Book Chapter
Year: 2004
Prysby MD, Oberhauser KS. 2004. Temporal and Geographic Variation in Monarch Densities: Citizen Scientists Document Monarch Population Patterns. Pages 9-20 in Oberhauser KS, Solensky MJ, eds. The Monarch Butterfly: Biology and Conservation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Category: Monarch research, Natural enemies
Type: Book Chapter
Year: 2004
Prysby MD. 2004. Natural enemies and survival of monarch eggs and larvae. Pages 27-38 in Oberhauser KS, Solensky MJ, eds. The Monarch Butterfly: Biology and Conservation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Category: Monarch research, GMO/toxins
Type: Article
Year: 2001
Oberhauser KS, Prysby MD, Mattila HR, Stanley-Horn DE, Sears MK, Dively G, Olson E, Pleasants JM, Lam WKF, Hellmich RL. 2001. Temporal and spatial overlap between monarch larvae and corn pollen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 98(21): 11913-11918.
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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.