Climate-change and mass mortality events in overwintering monarch butterflies

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 817-824

  Barve, Narayani ^a   Bonilla, Alvin J ^a   Brandes, Julia ^a   Brown, J Christopher ^a   Brunsell, Nathaniel ^a   Cochran, Ferdouz V ^a   Crosthwait, Rebecca J ^a   Gentry, Jodi ^a   Gerhart, Laci M ^a   Jackson, Trish ^a   Kern, Anna J ^a   Oberhauser, Karen S ^a   Owens, Hannah L ^a   Peterson, A Townsend ^a   Reed, Alexis S ^a   Soberón, Jorge ^a   Sundberg, Adam D ^a   Williams, Linda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Lethal temperature; Monarch butterfly; Mortality; Winter

Indexed keywords

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 84873859827     PISSN: 18703453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7550/rmb.26460     Document Type: Article

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