ISBN0801453151 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801453151 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Extentx, 321 pages, 16 pages of plates : ; 27 cm
Contributoredited by Karen S. Oberhauser, Kelly R. Nail, Sonia Altizer.
Note (General)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, and others -- Contributions to monarch biology and conservation through citizen science: seventy years and counting / Karen S. Oberhauser, Leslie Ries, Sonia Altizer, and others -- Monarch habitat conservation across North America: past progress and future needs / Priya C. Shahani, Guadalupe del Rio Pesado, Phil Schappert, and Eligio Garcia Serrano -- 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, and others -- Monarchs and their debilitating parasites: immunity, migration, and medicinal plant use / Sonia Altizer and Jacobus C. de Roode -- III. Monarchs in a changing climate: an overview / Kelly R. Nail 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, and others -- 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 -- 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 Ramirez, 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 Martinez-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 -- 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. David -- 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-Dalinas, and Karen S. Oberhauser.