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Meinzen TC, Burkle LA, Debinski DM. Roadside habitat: Boon or bane for pollinating insects? Bioscience 2024; 74:54-64. [PMID: 38313561 PMCID: PMC10831221 DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biad111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2023] [Revised: 11/19/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/06/2024] Open
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Pollinators, which provide vital services to wild ecosystems and agricultural crops, are facing global declines and habitat loss. As undeveloped land becomes increasingly scarce, much focus has been directed recently to roadsides as potential target zones for providing floral resources to pollinators. Roadsides, however, are risky places for pollinators, with threats from vehicle collisions, toxic pollutants, mowing, herbicides, and more. Although these threats have been investigated, most studies have yet to quantify the costs and benefits of roadsides to pollinators and, therefore, do not address whether the costs outweigh the benefits for pollinator populations using roadside habitats. In this article, we address how, when, and under what conditions roadside habitats may benefit or harm pollinators, reviewing existing knowledge and recommending practical questions that managers and policymakers should consider when planning pollinator-focused roadside management.
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- Thomas C Meinzen
- Ecology Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States
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- Ecology Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States
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- Ecology Department, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States
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Green Ii DA. Tracking technologies: advances driving new insights into monarch migration. CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE 2023; 60:101111. [PMID: 37678709 DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Revised: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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Understanding the rules of how monarch butterflies complete their annual North American migration will be clarified by studying them within a movement ecology framework. Insect movement ecology is growing at a rapid pace due to the development of novel monitoring systems that allow ever-smaller animals to be tracked at higher spatiotemporal resolution for longer periods of time. New innovations in tracking hardware and associated software, including miniaturization, energy autonomy, data management, and wireless communication, are reducing the size and increasing the capability of next-generation tracking technologies, bringing the goal of tracking monarchs over their entire migration closer within reach. These tools are beginning to be leveraged to provide insight into different aspects of monarch biology and ecology, and to contribute to a growing capacity to understand insect movement ecology more broadly and its impact on human life.
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- Delbert A Green Ii
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 1105 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Fisher KE, Bradbury SP. Monarch butterfly-breeding habitat restoration: how movement ecology research can inform best practices for site selection. CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE 2023; 59:101108. [PMID: 37652200 DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2023.101108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Population dynamics, persistence, and distribution are emergent properties of animal movement behavior and the spatial configuration of resources. Monarch butterflies are a vagile species with an open-population structure. Selecting locations for monarch butterfly- breeding habitat restoration that aligns with natural movement behavior will facilitate efficient habitat utilization across the landscape, increase realized fecundity, and ultimately support increases in the overwintering population size in Mexico. Obtaining and interpreting empirical movement and space-use data through field and laboratory studies are fundamental to this effort. To gain insights into population responses at larger, spatially explicit landscape scales, the results from empirical studies can be incorporated into simulation models. Together, empirical and simulation studies can inform options for creating functional connectivity of monarch butterfly-breeding habitats. Given currently available information, we synthesize studies for the eastern monarch butterfly to illustrate how an improved understanding of movement ecology can assist in planning conservation practices.
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- Kelsey E Fisher
- Department of Entomology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA; Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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Gladson SL, Stepien TL. An Agent-Based Model of Biting Midge Dynamics to Understand Bluetongue Outbreaks. Bull Math Biol 2023; 85:69. [PMID: 37318632 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-023-01177-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Bluetongue (BT) is a well-known vector-borne disease that infects ruminants such as sheep, cattle, and deer with high mortality rates. Recent outbreaks in Europe highlight the importance of understanding vector-host dynamics and potential courses of action to mitigate the damage that can be done by BT. We present an agent-based model, entitled 'MidgePy', that focuses on the movement of individual Culicoides spp. biting midges and their interactions with ruminants to understand their role as vectors in BT outbreaks, especially in regions that do not regularly experience outbreaks. The results of our sensitivity analysis suggest that midge survival rate has a significant impact on the probability of a BTV outbreak as well as its severity. Using midge flight activity as a proxy for temperature, we found that an increase in environmental temperature corresponded with an increased probability of outbreak after identifying parameter regions where outbreaks are more likely to occur. This suggests that future methods to control BT spread could combine large-scale vaccination programs with biting midge population control measures such as the use of pesticides. Spatial heterogeneity in the environment is also explored to give insight on optimal farm layouts to reduce the potential for BT outbreaks.
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- Shane L Gladson
- Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Grant TJ, Fisher KE, Krishnan N, Mullins AN, Hellmich RL, Sappington TW, Adelman JS, Coats JR, Hartzler RG, Pleasants JM, Bradbury SP. Monarch Butterfly Ecology, Behavior, and Vulnerabilities in North Central United States Agricultural Landscapes. Bioscience 2022; 72:1176-1203. [PMID: 36451972 PMCID: PMC9699720 DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biac094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/02/2023] Open
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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.
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- Tyler J Grant
- Research scientist, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Chetcuti J, Kunin WE, Bullock JM. Species' movement influence responses to habitat fragmentation. DIVERS DISTRIB 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Jordan Chetcuti
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford UK
- Faculty of Biological Sciences University of Leeds Leeds UK
- Department of Botany, School of Natural Sciences Trinity College Dublin Dublin Ireland
- Department of Ecoscience Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark
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Fisher KE, Bradbury SP. Influence of habitat quality and resource density on breeding‐season female monarch butterfly
Danaus plexippus
movement and space use in north‐central USA agroecosystem landscapes. J Appl Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Department of Entomology Iowa State University Ames IA USA
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management Iowa State University Ames IA USA
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Fisher KE, Bradbury SP. Estimating Perceptual Range of Female Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) to Potted Vegetative Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and Blooming Nectar Resources. ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY 2021; 50:1028-1036. [PMID: 34184061 DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvab058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Habitat loss in the summer breeding range contributes to eastern North American monarch (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) population decline. Habitat restoration efforts include increasing native prairie plants for adult forage and milkweed (Asclepias spp.) for oviposition and larval development. As the monarch is a vagile species, habitat establishment at a grain that matches the monarch perceptual range will facilitate efficient movement, decrease fitness costs of dispersal, and increase oviposition. We released 188 experimental monarch females 5, 25, 50, and 75 m downwind from potted milkweed and blooming forbs in 4-32 ha sod fields. Perceptual range was estimated from monarchs that flew towards and landed on the milkweed and forbs. Flight patterns of 49 non-experimental monarchs that landed on the resources were also observed. In our experimental, resource-devoid setting, wind-facilitated movement occurred most frequently. Monarchs performed direct displacement as evidenced by shallow turn angles and similarity of Euclidian and total distances traveled. We hypothesize similar monarch flight behavior when traveling over other resource-devoid areas, such as crop fields. Although the majority of experimental monarchs flew downwind, eight experimental and 49 non-experimental monarchs were observed flying upwind toward, and landing on, the potted resources from distances ranging from 3 to 125 m (mean = 30.98 m, median = 25 m, mode = 25 m). A conservative estimate of the perceptual range is 125 m, as longer distances cannot be precluded; however, the majority of observations were ≤50 m. Our findings suggest establishing habitat patches ~ 50 m apart would create functional connectivity across fragmented agricultural landscapes.
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- Kelsey E Fisher
- Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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Grant TJ, Krishnan N, Bradbury SP. Conservation risks and benefits of establishing monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) breeding habitats close to maize and soybean fields in the north central United States: A landscape-scale analysis of the impact of foliar insecticide on nonmigratory monarch butterfly populations. INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT 2021; 17:989-1002. [PMID: 33629511 DOI: 10.1002/ieam.4402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Revised: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Establishing habitat in agricultural landscapes of the north central United States is critical to reversing the decline of North America's eastern monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) population. Insecticide use could create population sinks and threaten recovery. Discouraging habitat establishment within a 38-m zone around crop fields is a suggested risk mitigation measure. In Story County, Iowa, United States, this mitigation would discourage habitat establishment in 84% of roadsides and 38% of noncrop land. It is unclear if the conservation benefits from establishing habitat close to crop fields outweigh suppression of population growth owing to insecticide exposure. Consequently, monarch conservation plans require spatially and temporally explicit landscape-scale assessments. Using an agent-based model that incorporates female monarch movement and egg laying, the number and location of eggs laid in Story County were simulated for four habitat scenarios: current condition, maximum new establishment, moderate establishment, and moderate establishment only outside a 38-m no-plant zone around crop fields. A demographic model incorporated mortality from natural causes and insecticide exposure to simulate adult monarch production over 10 years. Assuming no insecticide exposure, simulated adult production increased 24.7% and 9.3%, respectively, with maximum and moderate habitat establishment and no planting restrictions. A 3.5% increase was simulated assuming moderate habitat establishment with a 38-m planting restriction. Impacts on adult production were simulated for six representative insecticides registered for soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) management. Depending on the frequency of insecticide applications over a 10-year period, simulated production increased 8.2%-9.3%, assuming moderate habitat establishment with no planting restrictions. Results suggest that the benefits of establishing habitat close to crop fields outweigh the adverse effects of insecticide spray drift; that is, metapopulation extirpation is not a concern for monarchs. These findings are only applicable to species that move at spatial scales greater than the scale of potential spray-drift impacts. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2021;17:989-1002. © 2021 The Authors. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC).
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- Tyler J Grant
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Toxicology Program and Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
- Toxicology Program and Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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Chowdhury S, Zalucki MP, Amano T, Woodworth BK, Venegas-Li R, Fuller RA. Seasonal spatial dynamics of butterfly migration. Ecol Lett 2021; 24:1814-1823. [PMID: 34145940 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Revised: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Understanding the seasonal movements of migratory species underpins ecological studies. Several hundred butterfly species show migratory behaviour, yet the spatial pattern of these migrations is poorly understood. We developed climatic niche models for 405 migratory butterfly species globally to estimate patterns of seasonal movement and the distribution of seasonal habitat suitability. We found strong seasonal variation in habitat suitability for most migratory butterflies with >75% of pixels within their distributions showing seasonal switching in predicted occupancy for 85% of species. The greatest rate of seasonal switching occurred in the tropics. Several species showed extreme range fluctuations between seasons, exceeding 10-fold for 53 species (13%) and more than 100-fold for nine species (2%), suggesting that such species may be at elevated extinction risk. Our results can be used to search for the ecological processes that underpin migration in insects, as well as to design conservation interventions for declining migratory insects.
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- Shawan Chowdhury
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Qld, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Qld, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Qld, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Qld, Australia
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Qld, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Qld, Australia
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Mullins AN, Bradbury SP, Sappington TW, Adelman JS. Oviposition Response of Monarch Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) to Imidacloprid-Treated Milkweed. ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY 2021; 50:541-549. [PMID: 34008844 DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvab024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) populations have declined over the last two decades, attributable in part to declines in its larval host plant, milkweed (Asclepias spp.), across its breeding range. Conservation efforts in the United States call for restoration of 1.3 billion milkweed stems into the Midwestern landscape. Reaching this goal will require habitat establishment in marginal croplands, where there is a high potential for exposure to agrochemicals. Corn and soybean crops may be treated with neonicotinoid insecticides systemically or through foliar applications to provide protection against insect pests. Here, we investigate whether ovipositing monarchs discriminate against milkweed plants exposed to the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid, either systemically or through foliar application. In our first experiment, we placed gravid females in enclosures containing a choice of two cut stems for oviposition: one in 15 ml of a 0.5 mg/ml aqueous solution of imidacloprid and one in 15 ml water. In a second experiment, females were given a choice of milkweed plants whose leaves were treated with 30 µl of a 0.825 mg/ml imidacloprid-surfactant solution or plants treated with surfactant alone. To evaluate oviposition preference, we counted and removed eggs from all plants daily for 3 d. We also collected video data on a subset of butterflies to evaluate landing behavior. Results indicate that neither systemic nor foliar treatment with imidacloprid influenced oviposition behavior in female monarchs. The implications of these findings for monarch conservation practices will be informed by the results of ongoing egg and larval toxicity studies.
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- Alexander N Mullins
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, 339 Science Hall II, 2310 Pammel Drive, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Interdepartmental Program, Iowa State University, 1009 Agronomy, 716 Farmhouse Lane, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, 339 Science Hall II, 2310 Pammel Drive, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Interdepartmental Program, Iowa State University, 1009 Agronomy, 716 Farmhouse Lane, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, 339 Science Hall II, 2310 Pammel Drive, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, 503 Science Hall II, 2310 Pammel Drive, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, 339 Science Hall II, 2310 Pammel Drive, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Interdepartmental Program, Iowa State University, 1009 Agronomy, 716 Farmhouse Lane, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Memphis, Life Sciences 239 Ellington Hall, 3700 Walker Avenue, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
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Krishnan N, Zhang Y, Aust ME, Hellmich RL, Coats JR, Bradbury SP. Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) Life-Stage Risks from Foliar and Seed-Treatment Insecticides. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 2021; 40:1761-1777. [PMID: 33590905 DOI: 10.1002/etc.5016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2020] [Revised: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Conservation of North America's eastern monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) population would require establishment of milkweed (Asclepias spp.) and nectar plants in the agricultural landscapes of the north central United States. A variety of seed-treatment and foliar insecticides are used to manage early- and late-season pests in these landscapes. Thus, there is a need to assess risks of these insecticides to monarch butterfly life stages to inform habitat conservation practices. Chronic and acute dietary toxicity studies were undertaken with larvae and adults, and acute topical bioassays were conducted with eggs, pupae, and adults using 6 representative insecticides: beta-cyfluthrin (pyrethroid), chlorantraniliprole (anthranilic diamide), chlorpyrifos (organophosphate), imidacloprid, clothianidin, and thiamethoxam (neonicotinoids). Chronic dietary median lethal concentration values for monarch larvae ranged from 1.6 × 10-3 (chlorantraniliprole) to 5.3 (chlorpyrifos) μg/g milkweed leaf, with the neonicotinoids producing high rates of arrested pupal ecdysis. Chlorantraniliprole and beta-cyfluthrin were generally the most toxic insecticides to all life stages, and thiamethoxam and chlorpyrifos were generally the least toxic. The toxicity results were compared to insecticide exposure estimates derived from a spray drift model and/or milkweed residue data reported in the literature. Aerial applications of foliar insecticides are expected to cause high downwind mortality in larvae and eggs, with lower mortality predicted for adults and pupae. Neonicotinoid seed treatments are expected to cause little to no downslope mortality and/or sublethal effects in larvae and adults. Given the vagile behavior of nonmigratory monarchs, considering these results within a landscape-scale context suggests that adult recruitment will not be negatively impacted if new habitat is established in close proximity of maize and soybean fields in the agricultural landscapes of the north central United States. Environ Toxicol Chem 2021;40:1761-1777. © 2021 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of SETAC.
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- Niranjana Krishnan
- Toxicology Program and Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Beijing Great-Agri Institute of Pesticide Technology, Beijing, China
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- Conservation Corp Minnesota and Iowa, Granger, Iowa, USA
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- US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Toxicology Program and Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Toxicology Program and Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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Chowdhury S, Fuller RA, Dingle H, Chapman JW, Zalucki MP. Migration in butterflies: a global overview. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2021; 96:1462-1483. [PMID: 33783119 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Revised: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Insect populations including butterflies are declining worldwide, and they are becoming an urgent conservation priority in many regions. Understanding which butterfly species migrate is critical to planning for their conservation, because management actions for migrants need to be coordinated across time and space. Yet, while migration appears to be widespread among butterflies, its prevalence, as well as its taxonomic and geographic distribution are poorly understood. The study of insect migration is hampered by their small size and the difficulty of tracking individuals over long distances. Here we review the literature on migration in butterflies, one of the best-known insect groups. We find that nearly 600 butterfly species show evidence of migratory movements. Indeed, the rate of 'discovery' of migratory movements in butterflies suggests that many more species might in fact be migratory. Butterfly migration occurs across all families, in tropical as well as temperate taxa; Nymphalidae has more migratory species than any other family (275 species), and Pieridae has the highest proportion of migrants (13%; 133 species). Some 13 lines of evidence have been used to ascribe migration status in the literature, but only a single line of evidence is available for 92% of the migratory species identified, with four or more lines of evidence available for only 10 species - all from the Pieridae and Nymphalidae. Migratory butterflies occur worldwide, although the geographic distribution of migration in butterflies is poorly resolved, with most data so far coming from Europe, USA, and Australia. Migration is much more widespread in butterflies than previously realised - extending far beyond the well-known examples of the monarch Danaus plexippus and the painted lady Vanessa cardui - and actions to conserve butterflies and insects in general must account for the spatial dependencies introduced by migratory movements.
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- Shawan Chowdhury
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Biosciences, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, TR10 9FE, UK.,College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
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Fisher KE, Dixon PM, Han G, Adelman JS, Bradbury SP. Locating large insects using automated VHF radio telemetry with a multi‐antennae array. Methods Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Department of Statistics Iowa State University Ames IA USA
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- Department of Statistics Iowa State University Ames IA USA
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- Department of Natural Resources, Ecology and Management Iowa State University Ames IA USA
- Department of Biological Sciences University of Memphis Memphis TN USA
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- Department of Entomology Iowa State University Ames IA USA
- Department of Natural Resources, Ecology and Management Iowa State University Ames IA USA
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Competition and pollen wars: simulations reveal the dynamics of competition mediated through heterospecific pollen transfer by non-flower constant insects. THEOR ECOL-NETH 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s12080-020-00490-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Brym MZ, Henry C, Lukashow-Moore SP, Henry BJ, van Gestel N, Kendall RJ. Prevalence of monarch (Danaus plexippus) and queen (Danaus gilippus) butterflies in West Texas during the fall of 2018. BMC Ecol 2020; 20:33. [PMID: 32532338 PMCID: PMC7291465 DOI: 10.1186/s12898-020-00301-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a conspicuous insect that has experienced a drastic population decline over the past two decades. While there are several factors contributing to dwindling monarch populations, habitat loss is considered the most significant threat to monarchs. In the United States, loss of milkweed, particularly in the Midwest, has greatly reduced the available breeding habitat of monarchs. This has led to extensive efforts to conserve and restore milkweed resources throughout the Midwest. Recently, these research and conservation efforts have been expanded to include other important areas along the monarch’s migratory path. Results During the fall of 2018, we conducted surveys of monarch eggs and larvae through West Texas. We documented monarch and queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) reproduction throughout the region and used the proportion of monarch and queen larva to estimate the number of monarch eggs. Peak egg densities for monarchs were as high as 0.78 per milkweed ramet after correction for the presence of queens. Despite our observations encompassing only a limited sample across one season, the peak monarch egg densities we observed exceeded published reports from when monarch populations were higher. Conclusions To our knowledge, this is the first study to correct for the presence of queens when calculating the density of monarch eggs. This research also provides insight into monarch utilization of less well-known regions, such as West Texas, and highlights the need to expand the scope of monarch monitoring and conservation initiatives. While the importance of monarch research and conservation in the Midwest is unquestionable, more comprehensive efforts may identify new priorities in monarch conservation and lead to a more robust and effective overall strategy, particularly given the dynamic and rapidly changing global environment.
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- Matthew Z Brym
- The Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Box 43290, Lubbock, TX, 79409-3290, USA
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- The Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Box 43290, Lubbock, TX, 79409-3290, USA
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- The Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Box 43290, Lubbock, TX, 79409-3290, USA
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- The Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Box 43290, Lubbock, TX, 79409-3290, USA
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- The Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
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- The Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory, Texas Tech University, Box 43290, Lubbock, TX, 79409-3290, USA.
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Grant TJ, Flockhart DTT, Blader TR, Hellmich RL, Pitman GM, Tyner S, Norris DR, Bradbury SP. Estimating arthropod survival probability from field counts: a case study with monarch butterflies. Ecosphere 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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- Tyler J. Grant
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
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- University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science – Appalachian Laboratory Frostburg Maryland USA
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- Department of Statistics Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
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- The Nature Conservancy of Canada Toronto Ontario Canada
- Department of Integrative Biology University of Guelph Guelph Ontario Canada
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- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
- Department of Entomology Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
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Fisher KE, Adelman JS, Bradbury SP. Employing Very High Frequency (VHF) Radio Telemetry to Recreate Monarch Butterfly Flight Paths. ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY 2020; 49:312-323. [PMID: 32159219 DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvaa019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The overwintering population of eastern North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) has declined significantly. Loss of milkweed (Asclepias sp.), the monarch's obligate host plant in the Midwest United States, is considered to be a major cause of the decline. Restoring breeding habitat is an actionable step towards population recovery. Monarch butterflies are highly vagile; therefore, the spatial arrangement of milkweed in the landscape influences movement patterns, habitat utilization, and reproductive output. Empirical studies of female movement patterns within and between habitat patches in representative agricultural landscapes support recommendations for habitat restoration. To track monarch movement at distances beyond human visual range, we employed very high frequency radio telemetry with handheld antennae to collect movement bearings on a biologically relevant time scale. Attachment of 220-300 mg transmitters did not significantly affect behavior and flight capability. Thirteen radio-tagged monarchs were released in a restored prairie, and locations were estimated every minute for up to 39 min by simultaneous triangulation from four operators. Monarchs that left the prairie were tracked and relocated at distances up to 250 m. Assuming straight flights between locations, the majority of steps within the prairie were below 50 m. Steps associated with exiting the prairie exceeded 50 m with high directionality. Because butterflies do not fly in straight lines between stationary points, we also illustrate how occurrence models can use location data obtained through radio telemetry to estimate movement within a prairie and over multiple land cover types.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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- Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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The importance of including habitat-specific behaviour in models of butterfly movement. Oecologia 2020; 193:249-259. [PMID: 32253493 PMCID: PMC7320960 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04638-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Dispersal is a key process affecting population persistence and major factors affecting dispersal rates are the amounts, connectedness and properties of habitats in landscapes. We present new data on the butterfly Maniola jurtina in flower-rich and flower-poor habitats that demonstrates how movement and behaviour differ between sexes and habitat types, and how this effects consequent dispersal rates. Females had higher flight speeds than males, but their total time in flight was four times less. The effect of habitat type was strong for both sexes, flight speeds were ~ 2.5 × and ~ 1.7 × faster on resource-poor habitats for males and females, respectively, and flights were approximately 50% longer. With few exceptions females oviposited in the mown grass habitat, likely because growing grass offers better food for emerging caterpillars, but they foraged in the resource-rich habitat. It seems that females faced a trade-off between ovipositing without foraging in the mown grass or foraging without ovipositing where flowers were abundant. We show that taking account of habitat-dependent differences in activity, here categorised as flight or non-flight, is crucial to obtaining good fits of an individual-based model to observed movement. An important implication of this finding is that incorporating habitat-specific activity budgets is likely necessary for predicting longer-term dispersal in heterogeneous habitats, as habitat-specific behaviour substantially influences the mean (> 30% difference) and kurtosis (1.4 × difference) of dispersal kernels. The presented IBMs provide a simple method to explicitly incorporate known activity and movement rates when predicting dispersal in changing and heterogeneous landscapes.
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Evans LC, Sibly RM, Thorbek P, Sims I, Oliver TH, Walters RJ. Behavior underpins the predictive power of a trait-based model of butterfly movement. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:3200-3208. [PMID: 32273981 PMCID: PMC7141018 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Dispersal ability is key to species persistence in times of environmental change. Assessing a species' vulnerability and response to anthropogenic changes is often performed using one of two methods: correlative approaches that infer dispersal potential based on traits, such as wingspan or an index of mobility derived from expert opinion, or a mechanistic modeling approach that extrapolates displacement rates from empirical data on short-term movements.Here, we compare and evaluate the success of the correlative and mechanistic approaches using a mechanistic random-walk model of butterfly movement that incorporates relationships between wingspan and sex-specific movement behaviors.The model was parameterized with new data collected on four species of butterfly in the south of England, and we observe how wingspan relates to flight speeds, turning angles, flight durations, and displacement rates.We show that flight speeds and turning angles correlate with wingspan but that to achieve good prediction of displacement even over 10 min the model must also include details of sex- and species-specific movement behaviors.We discuss what factors are likely to differentially motivate the sexes and how these could be included in mechanistic models of dispersal to improve their use in ecological forecasting.
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- Luke C. Evans
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of ReadingReadingUK
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- SyngentaJealott's Hill International Research CentreBracknellUK
- BASF SE, APD/EELimburgerhofGermany
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- SyngentaJealott's Hill International Research CentreBracknellUK
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of ReadingReadingUK
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of ReadingReadingUK
- Centre for Environmental and Climate ResearchUniversity of LundLundSweden
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Krishnan N, Zhang Y, Bidne KG, Hellmich RL, Coats JR, Bradbury SP. Assessing Field-Scale Risks of Foliar Insecticide Applications to Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) Larvae. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 2020; 39:923-941. [PMID: 31965612 DOI: 10.1002/etc.4672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Revised: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Establishment and maintenance of milkweed plants (Asclepias spp.) in agricultural landscapes of the north central United States are needed to reverse the decline of North America's eastern monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) population. Because of a lack of toxicity data, it is unclear how insecticide use may reduce monarch productivity when milkweed habitat is placed near maize and soybean fields. To assess the potential effects of foliar insecticides, acute cuticular and dietary toxicity of 5 representative active ingredients were determined: beta-cyfluthrin (pyrethroid), chlorantraniliprole (anthranilic diamide), chlorpyrifos (organophosphate), and imidacloprid and thiamethoxam (neonicotinoids). Cuticular median lethal dose values for first instars ranged from 9.2 × 10-3 to 79 μg/g larvae for beta-cyfluthrin and chlorpyrifos, respectively. Dietary median lethal concentration values for second instars ranged from 8.3 × 10-3 to 8.4 μg/g milkweed leaf for chlorantraniliprole and chlorpyrifos, respectively. To estimate larval mortality rates downwind from treated fields, modeled insecticide exposures to larvae and milkweed leaves were compared to dose-response curves obtained from bioassays with first-, second-, third-, and fifth-instar larvae. For aerial applications to manage soybean aphids, mortality rates at 60 m downwind were highest for beta-cyfluthrin and chlorantraniliprole following cuticular and dietary exposure, respectively, and lowest for thiamethoxam. To estimate landscape-scale risks, field-scale mortality rates must be considered in the context of spatial and temporal patterns of insecticide use. Environ Toxicol Chem 2020;39:923-941. © 2020 SETAC.
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- Niranjana Krishnan
- Toxicology Program and Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Beijing Great-Agri Institute of Pesticide Technology, Beijing, China
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- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, US Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Toxicology Program and Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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- Toxicology Program and Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
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Kang JY, Aldstadt J, Vandewalle R, Yin D, Wang S. A cyberGIS approach to spatiotemporally explicit uncertainty and global sensitivity analysis for agent-based modeling of vector-borne disease transmission. ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS 2020; 110:1855-1873. [PMID: 35106407 PMCID: PMC8803269 DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1723400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Revised: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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While agent-based models (ABMs) provide an effective means for investigating complex interactions between heterogeneous agents and their environment, they may hinder an improved understanding of phenomena being modeled due to inherent challenges associated with uncertainty in model parameters. This study uses uncertainty analysis and global sensitivity analysis (UA-GSA) to examine the effects of such uncertainty on model outputs. The statistics used in UA-GSA, however, are likely to be affected by the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP). Therefore, to examine the scale varying-effects of model inputs, UA-GSA needs to be performed at multiple spatiotemporal scales. Unfortunately, performing comprehensive UA-GSA comes with considerable computational cost. In this paper, our cyberGIS-enabled spatiotemporally explicit UA-GSA approach helps to not only resolve the computational burden, but also to measure dynamic associations between model inputs and outputs. A set of computational and modeling experiments shows that input factors have scale-dependent impacts on modeling output variability. In other words, most of the input factors have relatively large impacts in a certain region, but may not influence outcomes in other regions. Furthermore, our spatiotemporally explicit UA-GSA approach sheds light on the effects of input factors on modeling outcomes that are particularly spatially and temporally clustered, such as the occurrence of communicable disease transmission.
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- Jeon-Young Kang
- CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies; Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo
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- CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies; Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies; Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies; Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Lukens L, Kasten K, Stenoien C, Cariveau A, Caldwell W, Oberhauser K. Monarch Habitat in Conservation Grasslands. Front Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Ozcan K, Sharma A, Bradbury SP, Schweitzer D, Blader T, Blodgett S. Milkweed (
Asclepias syriaca
) plant detection using mobile cameras. Ecosphere 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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- Koray Ozcan
- Institute for Transportation Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
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- Institute for Transportation Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
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- Department of Entomology Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
- Natural Resource Ecology and Management Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
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- Department of Entomology Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
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- Department of Entomology Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
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- Department of Entomology Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
- Natural Resource Ecology and Management Iowa State University Ames Iowa USA
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Quaglietta L, Porto M, Ford AT. Simulating animal movements to predict wildlife-vehicle collisions: illustrating an application of the novel R package SiMRiv. EUR J WILDLIFE RES 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10344-019-1333-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Leone JB, Larson DL, Larson JL, Pennarola N, Oberhauser K. Adult Monarch (Danaus plexippus) Abundance Is Higher in Burned Sites Than in Grazed Sites. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Evans LC, Sibly RM, Thorbek P, Sims I, Oliver TH, Walters RJ. Quantifying the effectiveness of agri-environment schemes for a grassland butterfly using individual-based models. Ecol Modell 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Bampoh D, Earl JE, Zollner PA. Examining the relative influence of animal movement patterns and mortality models on the distribution of animal transported subsidies. Ecol Modell 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Cariveau AB, Anderson E, Baum KA, Hopwood J, Lonsdorf E, Nootenboom C, Tuerk K, Oberhauser K, Snell-Rood E. Rapid Assessment of Roadsides as Potential Habitat for Monarchs and Other Pollinators. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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MacDonald ZG, Acorn JH, Zhang J, Nielsen SE. Perceptual Range, Targeting Ability, and Visual Habitat Detection by Greater Fritillary Butterflies Speyeria cybele (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and Speyeria atlantis. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2019; 19:5525229. [PMID: 31254380 PMCID: PMC6599276 DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/iez060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Butterflies are widely invoked as model organisms in studies of metapopulation and dispersal processes. Integral to such investigations are understandings of perceptual range; the maximum distance at which organisms are able to detect patches of suitable habitat. To infer perceptual range, researchers have released butterflies at varying distances from habitat patches and observed their subsequent flight behaviors. It is often assumed that butterflies rely on visual senses for habitat detection; however, this assumption has not been explicitly investigated. Here, we assess the extent and sensory determinants of perceptual range for the great spangled fritillary (Speyeria cybele (Fabricius, 1775)) and Atlantis fritillary (Speyeria atlantis (W.H. Edwards, 1862)). This was achieved by experimentally releasing butterflies over open water at various distances from a lake island, representing an isolated habitat patch in a dichotomous habitat-matrix landscape. To infer whether butterflies rely on vision for habitat detection, we exposed a subset of butterflies to a series of intense light flashes before release to induce flash blindness (bleaching of photoreceptive rhodopsins) without affecting olfaction. Flashed individuals were 30.1 times less likely to successfully navigate to the target island after release, suggesting butterflies rely primarily on visual senses to navigate fragmented landscapes. For unflashed butterflies, the likelihood of successful navigation decreased by a factor of 2.1 for every 10 m increase in release distance. However, no specific distance threshold for perceptual range was observed. We therefore suggest that perceptual range is best viewed as a continuum of probabilities (targeting ability), reflecting the likelihood of habitat detection across a range of distances.
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- Zachary G MacDonald
- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Zhejiang Tiantong Forest Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China
- Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai, P.R. China
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- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Myers A, Bahlai CA, Landis DA. Habitat Type Influences Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Oviposition and Egg Survival on Asclepias syriaca (Gentianales: Apocynaceae). ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY 2019; 48:675-684. [PMID: 31074487 DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvz046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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As agricultural practices intensify, species once common in agricultural landscapes are declining in abundance. One such species is the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus L.), whose eastern North American population has decreased approximately 80% during the past 20 yr. One hypothesis explaining the monarch's decline is reduced breeding habitat via loss of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.) from agricultural landscapes in the north central United States due to the adoption of herbicide-tolerant row crops. Current efforts to enhance monarch breeding habitat primarily involve restoring milkweed in perennial grasslands. However, prior surveys found fewer monarch eggs on common milkweed in grassland versus crop habitats, indicating potential preference for oviposition in row crop habitats, or alternatively, greater egg loss to predation in grasslands. We tested these alternative mechanisms by measuring oviposition and egg predation on potted A. syriaca host plants. Our study revealed that habitat context influences both monarch oviposition preference and egg predation rates and that these patterns vary by year. We found higher monarch egg predation rates during the first 24 h after exposure and that much of the predation occurs at night. Overall, we documented up to 90% egg mortality over 72 h in perennial grasslands, while predation rates in corn were lower (10-30% mortality) and more consistent between years. These findings demonstrate that weekly monarch egg surveys are too infrequent to distinguish oviposition habitat preferences from losses due to egg predation and suggest that monarch restoration efforts need to provide both attractive and safe habitats for monarch reproduction.
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- Andrew Myers
- Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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- Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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Grant TJ, Bradbury SP. The Role of Modeling in Monarch Butterfly Research and Conservation. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cariveau AB, Holt HL, Ward JP, Lukens L, Kasten K, Thieme J, Caldwell W, Tuerk K, Baum KA, Drobney P, Drum RG, Grundel R, Hamilton K, Hoang C, Kinkead K, McIntyre J, Thogmartin WE, Turner T, Weiser EL, Oberhauser K. The Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program: From Design to Implementation. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Waterbury B, Potter A, Svancara LK. Monarch Butterfly Distribution and Breeding Ecology in Idaho and Washington. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Dinsmore SJ, Vanausdall RA, Murphy KT, Kinkead KE, Frese PW. Patterns of Monarch Site Occupancy and Dynamics in Iowa. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Wilcox AAE, Flockhart DTT, Newman AEM, Norris DR. An Evaluation of Studies on the Potential Threats Contributing to the Decline of Eastern Migratory North American Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus). Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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