Monarch butterfly biology & conservation

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. 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.