An experimental displacement and over 50 years of tag-recoveries show that monarch butterflies are not true navigators

First Author: 

  • Mouritsen

Type: 

  • Article

Year: 

2013

Source: 

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Category: 

  • Monarch research, Orientation

Full Reference: 

Mouritsen H, Derbyshire R, Stalleicken J, Mouritsen OO, Frost BJ, Norris DR. 2013. An experimental displacement and over 50 years of tag-recoveries show that monarch butterflies are not true navigators. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of t

Online citation: 

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=12641415293468918569&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C…

Study Setting: 

  • Field

Geographic Focus: 

  • Eastern Breeding

Monitoring Data Used: 

Insect Migration Assocation
Monarch Watch

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.
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