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Title

Monarch butterfly biology & conservation / edited by Karen S. Oberhauser and Michelle J. Solensky.

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Oberhauser, Karen Suzanne.
• Solensky, Michelle J.

Description

viii, 248 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

"In addition to presenting the most recent basic research on this species, The Monarch Butterfly contains the first publication of data gathered and compiled by two established citizen science projects, Journey North and the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project. It also reports for the first time on two major events of long-term importance to monarch conservation and biology: the creation of a larger protected area in the Mexican over-wintering sites and a weather-related mortality event during the winter of 2002."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Monarch butterfly biology and conservation

Subject

• Monarch butterfly
• Wildlife conservation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Overview of monarch breeding biology / Karen S. Oberhauser -- 2. Temporal and geographic variation in monarch densities : citizen scientists document monarch population patterns / Michelle D. Prysby and Karen S. Oberhauser -- 3. Effects of female age, female mass, and nutrients from males on monarch egg mass / Karen S. Oberhauser -- 4. Natural enemies and survival of monarch eggs and larvae / Michelle D. Prysby -- 5. Effects of monarch larval host plant chemistry and body size on Polistes wasp predation / Linda S. Rayor -- 6. The effect of fire ants on monarchs breeding in Texas / William H. Calvert -- 7. Effects of milkweed latex and cardenolides on foraging and maintenance behaviors of first instar monarch larvae / Tammi Hoevenaar and Stephen B. Malcolm -- 8. Behavioral and genetic components of male mating success in monarchs / Michelle J. Solensky and Karen S. Oberhauser -- 9. Survival of experimental cohorts of monarch larvae following exposure to transgenic Bt corn pollen and anthers / Laura C. H. Jesse and John J. Obrycki -- 10. Overview of monarch migration / Michelle J. Solensky -- 11. Monarch butterflies' migratory behavior persists despite changes in environmental conditions / Sandra M. Perez and Orley R. Taylor -- 12. Stopover ecology of monarchs in coastal Virginia : using ornithological techniques to study monarch migration / Andrew K. Davis and Mark S. Garland -- 13. Characteristics of fall migratory monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, in Minnesota and Texas / Jane Borland, Carol C. Johnson, Thomas William Crumpton III, Markisha Thomas, Sonia M. Altizer and Karen S. Oberhauser -- 14. Documenting the spring movements of monarch butterflies with journey north, a citizen science program / Elizabeth Howard and Andrew K. Davis -- 15. Overview of monarch overwintering biology / Michelle J. Solensky -- 16. Two methods estimating overwintering monarch population size in Mexico / William H. Calvert -- 17. Locations and area occupied by monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico from 1993 to 2002 / Eligio Garcia-Serrano, Jaime Lobato Reyes and Blanca Xiomara Mora Alvarez -- 18. Can't see the forest for the butterflies : the need for understanding forest dynamics at monarch overwintering sites / Andres F. Keiman and Miguel Franco -- 19. Design and implementation of a new protected area for overwintering monarch butterflies in Mexico / Monica Missrie -- 20. Catastrophic winter storm mortality of monarch butterflies in Mexico during January 2002 / Lincoln P. Brower, David R. Kust, Eduardo Rendon Salinas, Eligio Garcia-Serrano, Katherine R. Kust, Jacob Miller, Concha Fernandez del Rey and Karen Pape -- 21. Spatial and temporal pattern of monarch overwintering abundance in Western North America / Dennis Frey and Andrew Schaffner -- 22. Analysis of the pattern of distribution and abundance of monarch overwintering sites along the California coastline / Kingston L. H. Leong, Walter H. Sakai, Walter Bremer, Dan Feuerstein and Gwen Yoshimura -- 23. Environmental factors influencing postdiapause reproductive development in monarch butterflies / Liz Goehring and Karen S. Oberhauser -- 24. Modeling the distribution and abundance of monarch butterflies / Karen S. Oberhauser -- 25. Transmission of the protozoan parasite Ophryocystis elekroscirrha in monarch butterfly populations : implications for prevalence and population-level impacts / Sonia M. Altizer, Karen S. Oberhauser and Karl A. Geurts -- 26. Spatial and temporal population dynamics of monarchs down-under : lessons for North America / Myron P. Zalucki and Wayne A. Rochester -- 27. Simulating the development and migration of the monarch butterfly / Johannes J. Feddema, Jason Shields, Orley R. Taylor and David Bennett.

ISBN

0801441889 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2004000884
• R8-442396

OCLC

• 54046294
• ocm54046294
• SCSB-5093533

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries