Status of the regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) and effects of fire management on its abundance in northeastern Kansas, USA

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 299-308

  Powell, Alexis F L A ^a,b   Busby, William H ^a   Kindscher, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance sampling; Prescribed burning; Regal Fritillary Speyeria idalia; Tallgrass prairie remnants

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION STATUS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRAIRIE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

FRITILLARIA (ANGIOSPERM); HELICONIINAE; SPEYERIA IDALIA;

EID: 34250743105     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-006-9045-6     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Brown JA, Boyce MS (1998) Line transect sampling of Karner blue butterflies (Lycaeides melissa samuelis). Environ Ecol Stat 5:81-91
2. Buckland ST, Anderson DR, Burnham KP, Laake JL, Borchers DL, Thomas L (2001) Introduction to distance sampling: Estimating abundances of biological populations. Oxford University Press, New York
3. Cully J, Egbert SL, Harrington J, Hoernemann T, Kaufman G, Lauver C, Martinko E, Price KP (2003) The Kansas Gap Analysis Project: Final report. Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Manhattan
4. Debinski DM, Kelly L (1998) Decline of Iowa populations of the Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) Drury. J Iowa Acad Sci 105:16-22
5. Ely C, Schwilling MD, Rolfs ME (1986) An Annotated List of the Butterflies of Kansas. Fort Hays Studies (Science) 7, Fort Hays State University, Fort Hays, Kansas
6. Huebschman JJ, Bragg TB (2000) Response of Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia Drury) to spring burning in an eastern Nebraska tallgrass prairie, USA. Nat Areas J 20:386-388
7. Kelly L, Debinski DM (1998) Relationship of host plant density to size and abundance of the Regal Fritillary Speyeria idalia Drury (Nymphalidae). J Lepidopt Soc 52:262-276
8. Kindscher K, Busby WH, Delisle JM, Dropkin JA, Freeman CC (2005) A Natural Areas Inventory of Douglas, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, and Wyandotte Counties in Northeast Kansas. Open-File Report No. 124. Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence
9. Knapp AK, Seastedt TR (1998) Grasslands, Konza Prairie, and long-term ecological research. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL (eds) Grassland dynamics: Long-term ecological research in tallgrass prairie. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 3-15
10. Kopper BJ, Margolies DC, Charlton RE (2001a) Life history notes on the Regal Fritillary, Speyeria idalia (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), in Kansas tallgrass prairie. J Kansas Entomol Soc 74:172-177
11. Kopper BJ, Shu S, Charleton RE, Ramaswamy SB (2001b) Evidence for reproductive diapause in the fritillary Speyeria idalia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Ann Entomol Soc Am 94:427-432
12. Mason KR (2001) Comparison of prairie sites and classification of their habitat attributes in relation to abundance of the Regal Fritillary Butterfly (Speyeria idalia). Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
13. Nagel HG, Nightengale T, Dankert N (1991) Regal Fritillary butterfly population estimation and natural history on Rowe Sanctuary, Nebraska. Prairie Nat 23:145-152
14. NatureServe (2002) NatureServe element occurrence data standard. NatureServe, Arlington, VA. http://www.natureserve.org/prodServices/ eodata.jsp. Cited 28 Sept 2006
15. NatureServe (2005) Comprehensive report: Speyeria idalia (Regal fritillary). NatureServe explorer: An online encyclopedia of life. Version 4.7. NatureServe, Arlington, VA. http://www.natureserve.org/ explorer. Cited 24 May 2006
16. Panzer R (2002) Compatibility of prescribed burning with the conservation of insects in small, isolated prairie reserves. Conserv Biol 16:1296-1307
17. Reinking DL (2005) Fire regimes and avian responses in the central tallgrass prairie. Stud Avian Biol 30:116-126
18. Ries L, Debinski DM (2001) Butterfly responses to habitat edges in the highly fragmented prairies of Central Iowa. J Anim Ecol 70:840-852
19. Robbins MB, Peterson AT, Ortega-Huerta MA (2002) Major negative impacts of early intensive cattle stocking on tallgrass prairies: The case of the Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido). N Am Birds 56:239-244
20. Royer RA, Marrone GM (1992) Conservation status of the Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) in North and South Dakota. United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, Colorado
21. Samson FB, Knopf FL, Ostlie WR (1999) Grasslands. In: Mac MJ, Opler PA, Puckett Haecker CE, Doran PD (eds) Status and trends of the nation's biological resources biological resources division, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, pp 437-445
22. Schwartz M (1998) Letter. Ecology forum: Effects of fire and hay management on butterflies. RX Fire Notes 7:7-10
23. Shepherd S, Debinski DM (2005) Reintroduction of Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) to a restored prairie. Ecol Restor 23:244-250
24. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ (1995) Biometry: The principles and practice of statistics in biological research. W. H. Freeman and Company, New York
25. Swengel AB (1996) Effects of fire and hay management on abundance of prairie butterflies. Biol Conserv 76:73-85
26. Swengel AB (1997) Habitat associations of sympatric violet-feeding fritillaries (Euptoieta, Speyeria, Boloria) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in tallgrass prairie. Great Lakes Entomol 30:1-18
27. Swengel AB (1998) Effects of management on butterfly abundance in tallgrass prairie and pine barrens. Biol Conserv 83:77-89
28. Swengel AB (2001) A literature review of insect responses to fire, compared to other conservation managements of open habitat. Biodivers Conserv 10:1141-1169
29. Swengel AB, Swengel SR (2001) A 10-year study to monitor populations of the Regal Fritillary, Speyeria idalia, (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Wisconsin, U.S.A. Great Lakes Entomol 34:97-115
30. Thomas L, Laake JL, Strindberg S, Marques FFC, Buckland ST, Borchers DL, Anderson DR, Burnham KP, Hedley SL, Pollard JH, Bishop JRB, Marques TA (2005) Distance 5.0. Beta Release 4. Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment, University of St. Andrews, UK. http://www.ruwpa.st-and.ac.uk/distance. Cited 24 May 2006
31. Williams BL (2002) Conservation genetics, extinction, and taxonomic status: A case history of the Regal Fritillary. Conserv Biol 16:148-157
32. Williams BL, Brawn JD, Paige KN (2003) Landscape scale genetic effects of habitat fragmentation on a high gene flow species: Speyeria idalia (Nymphalidae). Mol Ecol 12:11-20