Monarch Butterfly Ecology, Behavior, and Vulnerabilities in North Central United States Agricultural Landscapes

dc.contributor.author Grant, Tyler J.
dc.contributor.author Fisher, Kelsey E.
dc.contributor.author Krishnan, Niranjana
dc.contributor.author Mullins, Alexander N.
dc.contributor.author Hellmich, Richard
dc.contributor.author Sappington, Thomas
dc.contributor.author Adelman, James S.
dc.contributor.author Coats, Joel
dc.contributor.author Hartzler, Robert G.
dc.contributor.author Pleasants, John M.
dc.contributor.author Bradbury, Steven
dc.contributor.department Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology
dc.contributor.department Department of Agronomy
dc.contributor.department Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (CALS)
dc.contributor.department Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management
dc.contributor.department Pollinator Working Group
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-10T15:37:02Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-10T15:37:02Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.description.abstract The North American monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a candidate species for listing under the Endangered Species Act. Multiple factors are associated with the decline in the eastern population, including the loss of breeding and foraging habitat and pesticide use. Establishing habitat in agricultural landscapes of the North Central region of the United States is critical to increasing reproduction during the summer. We integrated spatially explicit modeling with empirical movement ecology and pesticide toxicology studies to simulate population outcomes for different habitat establishment scenarios. Because of their mobility, we conclude that breeding monarchs in the North Central states should be resilient to pesticide use and habitat fragmentation. Consequently, we predict that adult monarch recruitment can be enhanced even if new habitat is established near pesticide-treated crop fields. Our research has improved the understanding of monarch population dynamics at the landscape scale by examining the interactions among monarch movement ecology, habitat fragmentation, and pesticide use.
dc.description.comments This article is published as Tyler J Grant, Kelsey E Fisher, Niranjana Krishnan, Alexander N Mullins, Richard L Hellmich, Thomas W Sappington, James S Adelman, Joel R Coats, Robert G Hartzler, John M Pleasants, Steven P Bradbury, Monarch Butterfly Ecology, Behavior, and Vulnerabilities in North Central United States Agricultural Landscapes, BioScience, 2022;, biac094, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac094.<br/><br/>Works produced by employees of the U.S. Government as part of their official duties are not copyrighted within the U.S. The content of this document is not copyrighted.
dc.identifier.uri https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/Qr9m9Ydr
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences
dc.source.uri https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac094 *
dc.subject.disciplines DegreeDisciplines::Life Sciences::Entomology
dc.subject.disciplines DegreeDisciplines::Life Sciences::Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
dc.subject.disciplines DegreeDisciplines::Life Sciences::Ecology and Evolutionary Biology::Behavior and Ethology
dc.subject.disciplines DegreeDisciplines::Life Sciences::Agriculture
dc.subject.disciplines DegreeDisciplines::Life Sciences::Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health::Toxicology
dc.subject.keywords monarch butterfly conservation
dc.subject.keywords spatially explicit agent-based modeling
dc.subject.keywords movement ecology
dc.subject.keywords pesticide toxicology
dc.subject.keywords habitat connectivity
dc.title Monarch Butterfly Ecology, Behavior, and Vulnerabilities in North Central United States Agricultural Landscapes
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