The monarch butterfly through time and space: The social construction of an icon

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 612-622

  Gustafsson, Karin M ^a   Agrawal, Anurag A ^a   Lewenstein, Bruce V ^a   Wolf, Steven A ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity; boundary object; conservation; coproduction; the monarch butterfly

Indexed keywords

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 84930412206     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv045     Document Type: Article

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