Monarchs in a changing world : biology and conservation of an iconic butterfly / edited by Karen S. Oberhauser, Kelly R. Nail, Sonia Altizer.
Monarch butterflies are among the most popular insect species in the world and are an icon for conservation groups and environmental education programs. Monarch caterpillars and adults are easily recognizable as welcome visitors to gardens in North America and beyond, and their spectacular migration...
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Model programs for citizen science, education, and conservation : an overview / Karen S. Oberhauser
- Environmental education and monarchs : reaching across disciplines, generations, and nations / Elisabeth Young-Isebrand, Karen S. Oberhauser, Kim Bailey, Sonya Charest, Brian Hayes, Elizabeth Howard, Jim Lovett, Susan Meyers, Erik Mollenhauer, Eneida B. Montesiños-Patino, Ann Ryan, Orley R. Taylor, and Rocío Treviño
- Contributions to monarch biology and conservation through citizen science : seventy years and counting / Karen S. Oberhauser, Leslie Ries, Sonia Altizer, Rebecca V. Batalden, Janet Kudell-Ekstrum, Mark Garland, Elizabeth Howard, Sarina Jepsen, Jim Lovett, Mía Monroe, Gail Morris, Eduardo Rendón-Salinas, Richard G. RuBino, Ann Ryan, Orley R. Taylor, Rocío Treviño, Francis X. Villablanca, and Dick Walton
- Monarch habitat conservation across North America : past progress and future needs / Priya C. Shahani, Guadalupe del Río Pesado, Phil Schappert, and Eligio García Serrano
- Part II. Monarchs as herbivores, prey, and hosts : an overview / Jacobus C. de Roode
- Macroevolutionary trends in the defense of milkweeds against monarchs : latex, cardenolides, and tolerance of herbivory / Anurag A. Agrawal, Jared G. Ali, Sergio Rasmann, and Mark Fishbein
- Invertebrate natural enemies and stage-specific mortality rates of monarch eggs and larvae / Alma De Anda and Karen S. Oberhauser
- Lacewings, wasps, and flies--oh my : insect enemies take a bite out of monarchs / Karen S. Oberhauser, Michael Anderson, Sophia Anderson, Wendy Caldwell, Alma De Anda, Mark Hunter, Matthew C. Kaiser, and Michelle J. Solensky
- Monarchs and their debilitating parasites : immunity, migration, and medicinal plant use / Sonia Altizer and Jacobus C. de Roode
- Part III. Monarchs in a changing climate : an overview / Kelly R. Nail and Karen S. Oberhauser
- What's too hot and what's too cold? : lethal and sublethal effects of extreme temperatures on developing monarchs / Kelly R. Nail, Rebecca V. Batalden, and Karen S. Oberhauser
- Microclimatic protection of overwintering monarchs provided by Mexico's high-elevation Oyamel fir forests : a review / Ernest H. Williams and Lincoln P. Brower
- Effect of the 2010-2011 drought on the lipid content of monarchs migrating through Texas to overwintering sites in Mexico / Lincoln P. Brower, Linda S. Fink, Ridlon J. Kiphart, Victoria Pocius, Raúl R. Zubieta, and M. Isabel Ramírez
- Estimating the climate signal in monarch population decline : no direct evidence for an impact of climate change? / Myron P. Zalucki, Lincoln P. Brower, Stephen B. Malcolm, and Benjamin H. Slager
- Part IV. Conserving North American monarch butterflies : an overview / Lincoln P. Brower and Linda S. Fink
- Understanding and conserving the western North American monarch population / Sarina Jepsen and Scott Hoffman Black
- Threats to the availability of overwintering habitat in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve : land use and climate change / M. Isabel Ramírez, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero, Gerald Rehfeldt, and Lidia Salas-Canela
- Monarch butterflies and agriculture / John M. Pleasants
- Fires and fire management in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve / Héctor Martínez-Torres, Mariana Cantú-Fernández, M. Isabel Ramírez, and Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup
- Project Milkweed : a strategy for monarch habitat conservation / Brianna Borders and Eric Lee-Mäder
- Grassland and roadside management practices affect milkweed abundance and opportunities for monarch recruitment / Kristen A. Baum and Elisha K. Mueller
- Part V. New perspectives on monarch migration, evolution, and population biology : an overview / Andrew K. Davis and Sonia Altizer
- Tracking the fall migration of eastern monarchs with Journey North roost sightings : new findings about the pace of fall migration / Elizabeth Howard and Andrew K. Davis
- Potential changes in eastern North American monarch migration in response to an introduced milkweed, Asclepias curassavica / Rebecca V. Batalden and Karen S. Oberhauser
- Migration and host plant use by the southern monarch, Danaus erippus / Stephen B. Malcolm and Benjamin H. Slager
- Monarchs in the mist : new perspectives on monarch distribution in the Pacific Northwest / Robert Michael Pyle
- Monarchs across the Atlantic Ocean : what's happening on the other shore? / Juan Fernández-Haeger, Diego Jordano, and Myron P. Zalucki
- Unraveling the mysteries of monarch migration and global dispersal through molecular genetic techniques / Amanda A. Pierce, Sonia Altizer, Nicola L. Chamberlain, Marcus R. Kronforst, and Jacobus C. de Roode
- Connecting eastern monarch population dynamics across their migratory cycle / Leslie Ries, Douglas J. Taron, Eduardo Rendón-Salinas, and Karen S. Oberhauser.