Research Publications of Interest (not comprehensive)
“Field distribution and effects of Bt-expressing corn anthers on survival, development, and behavior of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (L)”, Iowa State University, Ames, 2004.
, “Occurrence of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) in cropland and adjacent areas.”, Crop Protection, vol. 19, pp. 363-366, 2000.
, “Road Worrier”, American Entomologist, vol. 61, pp. 5-8, 2015.
, “Oviposition preference and larval performance of North American monarch butterflies on four Asclepias species”, Entom. Exp. Appl., vol. 116, pp. 9-20, 2005.
, “Crowding and disease: effects of host density on response to infection in a butterfly-parasite interaction”, Ecological Entomology, vol. 34, pp. 551-561, 2009.
, “Temporal and spatial overlap between monarch larvae and corn pollen”, PNAS, vol. 98, pp. 11913-11918, 2001.
, “Milkweed loss in agricultural fields because of herbicide use: effect on the monarch butterfly population”, Insect Conservation and Diversity, vol. 6, pp. 135-144, 2013.
, “Butterfly responses to habitat edges in the highly fragmented prairies of Central Iowa”, J. Animal Ecology, vol. 70, pp. 840-852, 2001.
, “Natal origins of migratory monarch butterflies at wintering colonies in Mexico: new isotopic evidence”, PNAS, vol. 95, pp. 15436-15439, 1998.
, “Dispersal and egg shortfall in Monarch butterflies: what happens when the matrix is cleaned up?”, Ecological Entomol., vol. 35, pp. 84-91, 2010.
, “Tracking climate impacts on the migratory monarch butterfly.”, Global Change Biology, vol. 18, pp. 3039-3049, 2012.
, “Performance of early instar monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus L.) on nine milkweed species native to Iowa”, Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society , vol. 71, no. 3, 2017.
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“Milkweed Matters: Monarch Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Survival and Development on Nine Midwestern Milkweed Species”, Environmental Entomology , 2017.
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“Monarch butterflies do not place all of their eggs in one basket: oviposition on nine Midwestern milkweed species”, Ecosphere, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018.
, “Predicting monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) movement and egg-laying with a spatially-explicit agent-based model: The role of monarch perceptual range and spatial memory”, Ecological Modelling, vol. 374, 2018.
, “Monarch Butterflies Show Differential Utilization of Nine Midwestern Milkweed Species”, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018.
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