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LINCOLN PIERSON BROWER

Research Professor of Biology, Sweet Briar College

and

Distinguished Service Professor of Zoology, Emeritus

University of Florida

 

 

Telephone  (434) 277-5065

Email   brower@sbc.edu

 

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

 

Brower, L. P., D. R. Kust, E. Rendon-Salinas, E. G. Serrano, K. R. Kust, J. Miller, C. Fernandez del Rey, and K. Pape.  2004.  Catastrophic winter storm mortality of monarch butterflies in Mexico in January 2002.  In K. M. Oberhauser, and M. Solensky, editors. Monarch Butterfly Biology and Conservation. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

Brower, L. P. and R. M. Pyle.  In press.  Interchange of migratory monarchs between Mexico and the western United States, and the importance of floral corridors to the fall and spring migrations.  In Conservation and Pollination Biology in North America.  Edited by Gary Nabhan. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Kellogg, S.K., L.S. Fink, and L.P. Brower.  2003. Parasitism of native luna moths, Actias luna (L.) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) by the introduced Compsilura concinnata (Meigen) (Diptera: Tachinidae) in central Virginia, and their hyperparasitism by trigonalid wasps (Hymenoptera: Trigonalidae). Environmental Entomology 32: 1019-1027.

Bojorquez, -Tapia, Luis A., Brower, L.P., Castilleja, G., S‡nchez-Col—n, S., Hern‡ndez, M., Calvert, W.H., D’az, S., G—mez-Priego, P., Alcantar, G., Melgarejo, E.D., Solares, M.J., GutiŽrrez, L., & Ju‡rez, M.de.L.  2003. Mapping expert knowledge:  redesigning the monarch butterfly biosphere reserve. Conservation Biology, 17:  367-379 .

Ritland, David B. & Brower, Lincoln P. 2002. Mimicry-related variation in wing color of viceroy butterflies(Limenitis archippus): a test of the model-switching hypothesis (Nymphalidae). Holarctic Lepidoptera, 7, 5-11.

Brower, L. P., G. Castilleja, A. Peralta, J. Lopez-Garcia, L. Bojorquez-Tapia, S. Diaz, D. Melgarejo, and M. Missrie. 2002. Quantitative changes in forest quality in a principal overwintering area of the monarch butterfly in Mexico:  1971 to 1999. Conservation Biology 16:346-359.

Zalucki, M. P., S. B. Malcolm, T. D. Paine, C. C. Hanlon, L. P. Brower, and A. R. Clarke. 2001. It's the first bites that count: survival of first-instar monarch on milkweed. Austral Ecology 26:547-555.

Zalucki, M. P., L. P. Brower, and A. Alonso-M. 2001. Detrimental effects of latex and cardiac glycosides on survival and growth of first-instar monarch butterfly larvae Danaus plexippus feeding on the sandhill milkweed Asclepias humistrata. Ecological Entomology 26:212-224.

Altizer, S.M., Oberhauser, K.S., & Brower, L.P. 2000. Association between host migration and the prevalence of a protozooan parasite in natural populations of adult monarch butterflies. Ecological Entomology, 25, 125-139. [see Awards]

Brower, L.P. 1999. Para comprehendar la migracion de la mariposa monarca (1857-1995).  Instituto Nacional de Ecolog”a, Mexico, D.F., Mexico, pp. 1-141.

Knight, A.L., Brower, L.P., & Williams, E.H. 1999.  Spring remigration of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in north-central Florida:  estimating population parameters using mark-recapture. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 68, 531-556.

Brower, L. P.  1999.  Biological necessities for monarch butterfly overwintering in relation to the Oyamel forest ecosystem in Mexico. In: Paper presentations:  1997 North American Conference on the Monarch Butterfly (Morelia, Mexico.) Eds. Hoth, JŸrgen, Merino, Leticia, Oberhauser, Karen, Pisanty, Irene, Price, Steven and Wilkinson, Tara. Published by the Comission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Canada.  Pp. 11-28.

Brower, L. P.  1999.  Oyamel ecosystem conservation in Mexico is necessary to prevent the extinction of the butterfly migratory phenomenon  of the monarch butterfly in North America.  In:  Animal Migration Proceedings (UNEP/CMS Symposium, Gland Switzerland, 13 April 1997; Bonn/The Hague).  Technical Series Publication No. 2., 1999.  Ed:  Canevari. pp. 41-50.

Alonso-Meija, A., E. Montesinos-Patino, E. Rendon-Salinas, L. P. Brower, and K. Oyama. 1998. Influence of forest canopy closure on rates of bird predation on overwintering monarch butterflies Danaus plexippus L. Biological Conservation 85:151-159.

Moranz, R. A., and L. P. Brower. 1998. Geographic and temporal variation of the cardenolide-based chemical defenses of the Queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) in Northern Florida. Journal of Chemical Ecology 24: 905-932.

Alonso-Meija, A., Rendon-Salinas, E. Montesinos-Pati–o and L. P. Brower.  1997.  Use of lipid reserves by monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus L.) for overwintering in Mexico:  implications for conservation.  Ecological Applications 7(3):934-947.

Ae, S. A., T. Hirowatari, M. Ishii and L.P. Brower (Editors).  1996.  Decline and Conservation of Butterflies in Japan III.  Proceedings International Symposium on Butterfly Conservation, Osaka, Japan, 1994.  The Lepidopterological Society of Japan, Osaka. Pp. viii + 217.

Brower, L. P. 1996.  Forest thinning increases monarch butterfly mortality by altering the microclimate of the overwintering sites in Mexico. In:  Decline and Conservation of Butterflies in Japan III.  Proceedings International Symposium on Butterfly Conservation, Osaka, Japan, 1994, Eds: S. A. Ae, T. Hirowatari, M. Ishii and L.P. Brower, pp. 33-44.

Walton, R.K., and L.P. Brower. 1996. Monitoring the fall migration of the monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus L. (Nymphalidae: Danaidae) in eastern North America:  1991-1994. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 50:1-20.

Anderson, J.B., and L.P. Brower. 1996.  The fir forest as a thermal blanket and rain umbrella critical to the freeze-protection of overwintering monarch butterflies Danaus plexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) in Mexico. Ecological Entomology 21:107-116.

Brower, L. P. 1996.  Monarch butterfly orientation:  missing pieces of a magnificent puzzle. Journal of Experimental Biology 199:93-103.

Brower, L.P. 1995. Understanding and misunderstanding the migration of the monarch butterfly (Nymphalidae) in North America: 1857-1995. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 49:304-385.

Brower, L. P. 1995. Revision a los mitos de Jurgen Hoth. Ciencias No. 39 (July-Sept.):50-51.

Brower, L. P., L. S. Fink, A. V.Z. Brower, K. Leong, K. Oberhauser, S. Altizer, O. Taylor, D. Vickerman, W.H. Calvert, T. Van Hook, A. Alonso-M., S.B. Malcolm, D.F. Owen, and M.P. Zalucki. 1995. On the dangers of interpopulational transfers of monarch butterflies. Bioscience: 45:540-544.

Rowell-Rahier, M., J.M. Pasteels, A. Alonso-Mejia, and L.P. Brower. 1995.  Relative unpalatability of leaf-beetles with either biosynthesized or sequestered chemical defense.  Animal Behaviour 49:709-714.

Alonso-Mejia., A. and L. P.Brower. 1994.  From model to mimic: age-dependent unpalatability in monarch butterflies.  Experientia 50:176-181.

Alonso-M., A., J. I. Glendinning, and L. P. Brower.  1993.  The influence of temperature on crawling, shivering, and flying in overwintering monarch butterflies in Mexico.  In: Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly, Eds: S.B. Malcolm and M. P. Zalucki, Science Series No. 38, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, pp. 309-314.

Anderson, J. B. and L. P. Brower.  1993.  Cold-hardiness in the annual cycle of the monarch butterfly.  In: Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly, Eds: S.B. Malcolm and M. P. Zalucki, Science Series No. 38, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, pp. 157- 164.

Arellano-G., A, J. I. Glendinning, J. B. Anderson, and L. P. Brower.  1993.  Interspecific comparisons of the foraging dynamics of black-backed orioles and black-headed grosbeaks on overwintering monarch butterflies in Mexico.  In: Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly, Eds: S.B. Malcolm and M. P. Zalucki, Science Series No. 38, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, pp. 315-322.

Cockrell, B. J., S. B. Malcolm, and L. P. Brower.  1993.  Time, temperature, and latitudinal constraints on the annual recolonization of eastern North America by the monarch butterfly. In: Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly, Eds: S.B. Malcolm and M. P. Zalucki, Science Series No. 38, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, pp. 233-251.

Malcolm, S. B., B. J. Cockrell,  and  L. P. Brower.  1993.  Spring recolonization of eastern North America by the Monarch Butterfly:  Successive brood or single sweep migration?  In: Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly, Eds: S.B. Malcolm and M. P. Zalucki, Science Series No. 38, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, pp. 253-267.

Nagano, C. D., W. H. Sakai, S. B. Malcolm, B. J. Cockrell, J. P. Donahue and L. P. Brower.  1993.  Spring migration of monarch butterflies in California.  In: Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly, Eds: S.B. Malcolm and M. P. Zalucki, Science Series No. 38, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, pp. 219-232.

Ritland, D. B. and L. P. Brower.  1993.  A reassessment of the mimicry relationships among viceroys, queens, and monarchs in Florida.  In: Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly, Eds: S.B. Malcolm and M. P. Zalucki, Science Series No. 38, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, pp. 129-139.

Brower, L.P., M.A. Ivie, L.S. Fink, J.R. Watts, and R.A. Moranz.  1992. Life history of Anetia briarea and its bearing on the evolutionary relationships of the Danainae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).  Tropical Lepidoptera 3(2):64-73.

Zalucki, M.P., and L.P. Brower.  1992.  Survival of first instar larvae of Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Danainae) in relation to cardiac glycoside and latex content of Asclepias humistrata (Asclepiadaceae).  Chemoecology 3:81-93.

Alonso-Mejia, A. A., Arellano-Guillermo, A., and L.P. Brower. 1992. Influence of temperature, surface body moisture and height above ground on survival of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico.  Biotropica 24 (3): 415-419.

Martin, R.A., S.P. Lynch, L.P. Brower, S.B. Malcolm, and T. Van Hook. 1992. Cardenolide content, emetic potency, and thin layer chromatography profiles of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, and their larval host-plant milkweed, Asclepias humistrata, in Florida.  Chemoecology  3:1-13.

Calvert, W.H., L.P. Brower, and R.O. Lawton. 1992.  Mass flight response of overwintering monarch butterflies (Nymphalidae) to cloud-induced changes in solar radiation intensity in Mexico.  Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society  46(2):97-105.

Malcolm, S. B., B.J. Cockrell, and L.P. Brower. 1992.  Continental-scale host plant use by a specialist insect herbivore:  milkweeds, cardenolides and the monarch butterfly. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Insect - Plant Relationships, Eds. S. B. J. Menken, J. H. Visser and P. Harrewijn.   Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland, pp. 43-45.

Ritland, D.B. and L.P. Brower. 1991. The viceroy butterfly is not a batesian mimic. Nature 350:497-498.

Brower, L. P. and S. B. Malcolm.  1991.  Animal migrations:  endangered phenomena.  American Zoologist 31:265-276.

Glendinning, J.I., L.P. Brower, and C.A. Montgomery.  1990.  Responses of three mouse species to deterrent chemicals in the monarch butterfly.  1.  Taste and toxicity tests with artificial diets laced with digitoxin or monocrotaline.  Chemoecology 1: 114-123.

Glendinning, J. I.  and L. P. Brower.  1990.  Feeding and breeding responses of five mice species to overwintering aggregations of the monarch butterfly.  Journal of Animal Ecology 59:1091-1112.

Zalucki, M. P., L. P. Brower and S. B. Malcolm.  1990.  Oviposition by Danaus plexippus in relation to cardenolide content of three Asclepias species in the southeastern U.S.A.  Ecological Entomology 15:231-240.

Calvert, W. H., S. B. Malcolm, J. I. Glendinning, L. P. Brower, M. P. Zalucki, T. Van Hook, J. B. Anderson, and L. C. Snook.  1989.  Conservation biology of monarch butterfly overwintering sites in Mexico.  Vida Silvestre Neotropical 2:38-48.

Herman, W.S., L.P. Brower, and W.H. Calvert. 1989. Reproductive tract development in monarch butterflies overwintering in California and Mexico. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 43:50-58.

Malcolm, S. B., and L. P. Brower.  1989.  Evolutionary and ecological implications of cardenolide sequestering in the monarch butterfly.  Experientia 45:284-295.

Malcolm, S. B., B. J. Cockrell, and L. P. Brower.  1989.  The cardenolide fingerprint of monarch butterflies reared on the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca L.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 15:819-853.

Brower, L. P.  1988.  (Editor).  Mimicry and the Evolutionary Process.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago.  Pp. i-vii + 1-127.

Brower, L. P.  1988.  Preface (To the Vice Presidential Symposium on Mimicry).  American Naturalist (Supplement) 131:S1-S3.

Brower, L. P.  1988.  Avian predation on the monarch butterfly and its implications for mimicry theory.  American Naturalist (Supplement) 131: S4-S6.

Brower, L. P., C. J. Nelson, J. A. Seiber, L. S. Fink, and C. Bond.  1988.  Exaptation as an alternative to coevolution in the cardenolide-based chemical defense of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus L.) against avian predators.  In:  Chemical Mediation of Coevolution, Ed: K. C. Spencer, Pergamon Press, pp. 446-475.

Glendinning, J. I., A. Alonso Mejia., and L. P. Brower.  1988.  Behavioral and ecological inter­actions of foraging mice (Peromyscus melanotis) with overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in Mexico.  Oecologia 75:222-227.

Masters, A. R., S. B. Malcolm, and L. P. Brower.  1988.  Thermoregulatory behavior and adaptations for overwintering in the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) in Mexico.  Ecology  69:458-467.

Kelley, R. B., J. N. Seiber, A. D. Jones, H. J. Segall, and L. P. Brower.  1987.  Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) from Mexico.  Experientia 43:943-946.

Malcolm, S. B., B. J. Cockrell,  and L. P. Brower.  1987.  Monarch butterfly voltinism:  effects of temperature constraints at different latitudes.  Oikos 49: 77-82.

Brower, L. P.  1987.  Biological rationale for the conservation of the over­wintering sites of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus L., in the states of Michoacan and Mexico.  In: Primer Simposium Internacional de Fauna Silvestre 1, Ed: Anon.,  (Mexico City, May, 1985), pp. 66-88.

Brower, L. P.  1986.  New perspectives on the migration biology of the monarch but­ter­fly, Danaus plexippus L.  In:  Migration: Mechanisms and Adaptive Signifi­cance, Ed: M. A. Rankin.  Univ. Texas Contrib. Marine Science 27 (Supple­ment), pp. 748-785.

Malcolm, S. B.  and  L. P. Brower.  1986.  Selective oviposition by monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus L.) in a mixed stand of Asclepias curassavica L. and A. incarnata L. in south Florida.  Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 40: 255-263.

Calvert, W. H.  and L. P. Brower.  1986.  The location of monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus L.) overwintering colonies in Mexico in relation to topography and climate.  Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 40: 164-187.

Seiber, J. N., L. P. Brower, S. M. Lee, M. M. McChesney, H. T. A. Cheung, C. J. Nelson, and T. R. Watson.  1986.  The cardenolide connection between overwinter­ing monarch butterflies from Mexico and their larval foodplant, Asclepias syriaca.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 12: 1157-1170.

Brower, L. P. and W. H. Calvert.  1985.  Foraging dynamics of bird preda­tors on over­wintering monarch butterflies in Mexico.  Evolution 39: 852-868.

Seiber, J. N., S. M. Lee, M. M. McChesney, T. R. Watson, C. J. Nelson, and L. P. Brower.  1985.  New cardiac glycosides (cardenolides) from Asclepias species.  In: Plant Toxicology, Proceedings of the  Australia - U.S.A Poisonous Plants Symposium (1984), Eds: A. A. Seawright et al., pp. 427-437.

Brower, L. P. and L. S. Fink.  1985.  A natural toxic defense system:  cardenolides in butterflies versus birds. In:  Experimental Assessments and Clinical Applications of Conditioned Food Aversions,  Eds. N. S. Braveman and P. Bronstein, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, pp. 171-188.

Brower, L. P., B. E. Horner, M. M. Marty, C. M. Moffitt, and B. Villa-R.  1985.  Mice (Peromyscus maniculatus labecula, P. spicelegus and Microtus mexicanus) as predators of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in Mexico.  Biotropica 17: 89-99

Brower, L.P. 1984. Chemical defence in butterflies. In: The Biology of Butterflies,  Eds: R. I. Vane-Wright and P. R. Ackery,   Academic Press, London, pp. 109-134.

Brower, L. P., J. N. Seiber, C. J. Nelson, S. P. Lynch, M. P. Hoggard, and J. A. Cohen.  1984.  Plant-determined variation in cardenolide content and thin-layer chromatography profiles of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, reared on milkweed plants in California 3.  Asclepias californica.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 10: 1823-1857.

Brower, L. P., J. N. Seiber, C. J. Nelson, S. P. Lynch, and M. M. Holland.  1984.  Plant-determined variation in the cardenolide content, thin layer chromatography profiles, and emetic potency of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, reared on the milkweed, Asclepias speciosa in California.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 10: 601-639.

Fink, L. S., L. P. Brower, R. B. Waide, and P. R. Spitzer.  1983.  Overwintering monarch butterflies as food for insectivorous birds in Mexico.  Biotropica 15:151-153.

Calvert, W. H., W. Zuchowski and L. P. Brower.  1983.  The effect of rain, snow and freezing temperatures on overwintering monarch butterflies in Mexico.  Biotropi­ca 15 (1): 42-47.

Cohen, J. A. and L. P. Brower.  1983.  Cardenolide sequestration by the dogbane tiger moth (Cycnia tenera; Arctiidae).  Journal of Chemical Ecology 9: 521-532.

Calvert, W. H., W. Zuchowski, and L. P. Brower.  1982.  The impact of forest thinning on microclimate in monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus L.) overwintering areas of Mexico.  Boletin de la Sociedad de la Botanica de Mexico 42: 11-18.

Tilley, S. G., B. L. Lundrigan, and L. P. Brower.  1982.  Erythryism and mimicry in the salamander Plethodon cinereus.  Herpetologica 38(3):409-417.

Rodman, J., L. P. Brower, and J. Frey.  1982.  Cardenolides in North American Erysimum (Cruciferae), a preliminary chemotaxonomic report. Taxon 31 (3): 507-516.

Calvert, W. H. and L. P. Brower.  1982.  The importance of forest cover for the survival of overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus, Danaidae).  Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 35: 216-225.

Cohen, J. A. and L. P Brower.  1982.  Oviposition and larval success of wild monarch butterflies (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) in relation to host plant size and cardenolide concentration.  Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 55: 343-348.

Brower, L. P., J. N. Seiber, C. J. Nelson, P. Tuskes, and S. P. Lynch.  1982.  Plant-determined variation in the cardenolide content, thin layer chromato­graphy pro­files, and emetic potency of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, reared on the milkweed, Asclepias eriocarpa in California. Journal of Chemical Ecology 8: 579-633.

Nelson, C. J., J. N. Seiber, and L. P. Brower.  1981.  Seasonal and intraplant variation of cardenolide content in the California milkweed, Asclepias eriocarpa, and implications for plant defense.  Journal of Chemical Ecology 7: 981-1010.

Fink, L. S.  and L. P. Brower.  1981.  Birds can overcome the cardenolide defence of monarch butterflies.  Nature 291: 67-70.

Seiber, J. N., P. M. Tuskes, L. P. Brower, and C. N. Nelson.  1980.  Pharmacodynamics of some individual milkweed cardenolides fed to larvae of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus L.).  Journal of Chemical Ecology 6: 321-339.   

Calvert, W. H., L. E. Hedrick, and L. P. Brower.  1979.  Mortality of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus L.) due to avian predation at five overwintering sites in Mexico.  Science 204: 847-851 (Cover article).

Brower, L. P., D. O. Gibson, C. M. Moffitt, and A. L. Panchen.  1978.  Cardenolide content of Danaus chrysippus butterflies from three areas of East Africa.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 10: 251-273.

Tuskes, P. M., and L. P. Brower.  1978.  Overwintering ecology of the monarch butter­fly, Danaus plexippus, in California.  Ecological Entomology 3: 141-153.

Brower, L. P., W. H. Calvert, L. E. Hedrick, and J. Christian.  1977.  Biological obser­va­tions on an overwintering colony of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus L., Danaidae) in Mexico.  Journal of the  Lepidopterists' Society 31: 232-242.

Pough, F. H. and L. P. Brower.  1977.  Predation by birds on Great Southern White Butterflies as a function of palatability, sex, and habitat.  American Midland Naturalist 98: 50-58.

Roeske, C. N, J. N. Seiber, L. P. Brower, and C. M. Moffitt.  1976.  Milkweed cardeno­lides and their comparative processing by monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus L.).  Recent Advances in Phytochemistry 10: 93-167.

Brower, L. P., M. Edmunds, and C. M. Moffitt.  1975.  Cardenolide content and palata­bility of a population of Danaus chrysippus butterflies from West Africa.  Journal of Entomology (A) 49: 183-196.

Brower, L. P. and S. C. Glazier.  1975.  Localization of heart poisons in the monarch butterfly.  Science 188: 19-25.

Brower, L. P. and C. M. Moffitt.  1974.  Palatability dynamics of cardenolides in the monarch butterfly.  Nature 249: 280-283.

Pough, H. F., L. P. Brower, H. R. Meck, and S. R. Kessell.  1973.  Theoretical investiga­tions of automimicry:  multiple trial learning and the palatability spectrum.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 70: 2261-2265.

Brower, L. P., and J. V. Z. Brower  1972.  Parallelism, convergence, divergence, and the new concept of advergence in the evolution of mimicry.  Transactions of the  Connecticut Academy of Sciences 44: 59-67.

Brower, L.P., McEvoy, P.B., Williamson, K.L., & Flannery, M.A. (1972). Variation in cardiac glycoside content of monarch butterflies from natural populations in eastern North America. Science, 177, 426-429.

Brower, L. P. 1971. (Editor)  Proceedings of a Symposium, "Scientists' View of the Connecticut River Basin Plan". The Connecticut River Ecology Action Corporation (CREAC), Hadley, Massachusetts. pp. 1 - 24 (Pamphlet.)

Platt, A. P., L. P. Brower, and R. P. Coppinger.  1971.  Demonstration of the selective advan­tage of mimetic Limenitis butterflies presented to caged avian predators.  Evolu­tion 25: 692-701

Cook, L. M., K. Frank, and L. P. Brower.  1971.  Experiments on the demography of tropical butterflies.  I. Survival rate and density in two species of Parides.  Biotropica 3: 17-20.

Brower, L. P., J. Alcock, and J. V. Z. Brower.  1971.  Avian feeding behavior and the selective advantage of incipient mimicry.  In Ecological Genetics and Evolution, Essays in Honour of E. B. Ford, Ed: Robert Creed, Blackwell Scientific Publication, Oxford, pp. 261-274.

Brower, L.P.  1971. Biology of the annual flow cycle of the Connecticut River. In: Proceedings of a Symposium,  Scientists' View of the Connecticut River Basin Plan, Ed: L. P. Brower, Connecticut River Ecology Action Corporation (CREAC), Hadley, Massachusetts, pp. 14-24.

Brower, L. P.  1971.  Prey coloration and predator behavior.  In: Topics in the Study of Life:  The BIO Source Book, Section 6, Animal Behavior, Ed: Anne Kramer, Harper & Row Pub­lishers, N.Y., pp. 360-367.

Brower, L. P.  1970.  Plant poisons in a terrestrial food chain and implica­tions for mim­icry theory.  In: Biochemical Coevolu­tion, (29th Annual Biological Colloquium, 1968),  Ed: K. L. Chambers, Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, pp. 69-82.

Brower, L. P., F. H. Pough, and H. R. Meck.  1970.  Theoretical investigations of auto­mimicry.  I.  Single trial learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.  66: 1059-1066.

Myers, J.  and L. P. Brower.  1969.  A behavioural analysis of the courtship pheromone receptors of the queen butterfly, Danaus gilippus berenice.  Journal of  Insect Physiology 15: 2117-2130.

Cook, L. M. and L. P. Brower.  1969.  Observations on polymorphism in two species of Heliconiine butterflies from Trinidad, West Indies.  The Entomologist (June): 125-128.

Cook, L. M., L. P. Brower, and J. Alcock.  1969.  An attempt to verify mimetic advan­tage in a Neotropical environment.  Evolution 23: 339-345.

Brower, L. P.  1969.  Ecological chemistry.   Scientific American 220(2): 22-29. (Cover article).  (Offprint 1133, W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco.)

Brower, L. P.  1969.  Discussion of Robert K. Selander's paper, The ecological aspects of the systematics of animals.  In: Systematic Biology, Publication 1692, Ed: Anon., National Acad­emy of Sciences, Washington, pp. 239-242.

Platt, A. P. and L. P. Brower.  1968.  Mimetic versus disruptive coloration in intergrading populations of Limenitis arthemis and astyanax butterflies.  Evolution 22: 699-718.

Brower, L. P., W. N. Ryerson, L. L. Coppinger, and S. C. Glazier.  1968.  Ecological chemistry and the palatability spectrum.  Science 161: 1349-1351.

Brower, L. P., J. V. Z. Brower, and J. M. Corvino.  1967.  Plant poisons in a terrestrial food chain.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.  57: 893-898.

Brower, L. P., L. M. Cook, and H. J. Croze.  1967.  Predator responses to artificial Bates­ian mimics released in a Neotropical environment.  Evolution 21: 11-23.

Cook, L. M., L. P. Brower, and H. J. Croze.  1967.  The accuracy of a popula­tion estima­tion from multiple recapture data.  Journal of Animal Ecology 36: 57-60.

Meinwald, J., Y. C. Meinwald, J. W. Wheeler, T. Eisner, and L. P. Brower.  1966.  Major components in the exocrine secretion of a male butterfly (Lycorea).  Science 151: 583-585.

Brower, L. P. and M. A. Jones.  1965.  Precourtship interaction of wing and abdominal sex glands in male Danaus butterflies.  Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London A. 40: 147-151, 2 b&w plates.

Brower, J. V. Z. and L. P. Brower.  1965.  Experimental studies of mimicry.  8. Further investigations of honeybees (Apis mellifera) and their dronefly mimics (Eristalis spp.).  American Naturalist 99: 173-188.

Brower, L. P., J. V. Z. Brower, and F. P. Cranston.  1965.  Courtship behavior of the queen butterfly, Danaus gilippus berenice (Cramer).  Zoologica 50: 1-39, 7 b&w plates.

Brower, L. P. and J. V. Z. Brower.  1964.  Birds, butterflies, and plant poisons:  a study in ecological chemistry.  Zoologica 49: 137-159.

Brower, L. P., J. V. Z. Brower, F. G. Stiles, H. J. Croze  and A. S. Hower.  1964.  Mim­icry:  differential advantage of color patterns in the natural environment.  Science 144: 183-185.

Brower, L. P., J. V. Z. Brower and C. T. Collins.  1963.  Experimental studies of mimi­cry.  7. Relative palatability and Mullerian mimicry among Neotropical butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae.  Zoologica 48: 65-84, 1 color plate.

Brower, L.P. 1963. (Editor). Mimicry.  A Symposium Organized for the XVI International Congress of Zoology. XVI International Congress of Zoology Proceedings 4, Washington, D.C. Pp. 145-186.  (Pamphlet.)

Brower, L.P.  1963.  The evolution of sex-limited mimicry in butterflies. In: Mimicry.  A Symposium, Ed: L. P. Brower, XVI International Congress of Zoology Proceedings 4, Washington, D.C., pp. 173-179.

Brower, L. P.  1962.  Evidence for interspecific competition in natural populations of the monarch and queen butterflies, Danaus plexippus and D. gilippus berenice in south central Florida.  Ecology 43: 549-552.

Brower, J. V. Z. and L. P. Brower.  1962.  Experimental studies of mimicry.  6. The reaction of toads (Bufo terrestris) to honeybees (Apis mellifera) and their dronefly mimics (Eristalis vinetorum).  American Naturalist 96: 297-307.

Brower, L. P. and J. V. Z. Brower.  1962.  The relative abundance of model and mimic butterflies in natural populations of the Battus philenor mimicry complex.  Ecology 43: 154-158.

Brower, J. V. Z., and L. P. Brower.  1961.  Palatability of North American model and mimic butterflies to caged mice.  Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 15: 23-24.

Brower, L. P.  1961.  Experimental analyses of egg cannibalism in the monarch and queen butterflies, Danaus plexippus and D. gilippus berenice.  Physiological Zoology 34: 287-296.

Brower, L. P.  1961.  Studies on the migration of the monarch butterfly.  I.  Breeding populations of Danaus plexippus and D. gilippus berenice in south central Florida.  Ecology 42: 76-83.

Brower, L. P., J. V. Z. Brower, and P. W. Westcott.  1960.  Experimental studies of mimicry.  5. The reaction of toads (Bufo terrestris) to bumblebees (Bombus americanorum) and their robberfly mimics (Mallophora bomboides), with a discussion of aggressive mimicry.  American Naturalist 94: 343356.

Brower, L. P.  Speciation in butterflies of the Papilio glaucus group.  II. Ecological relationships and interspecific sexual behavior.  Evolution 13: 212-228.        

Brower, L. P.  1959.  Speciation in butterflies of the Papilio glaucus group.  I.  Mor­phological relationships and hybridization.  Evolution 13: 40-63.

Brower, L. P.  1958.  Peale's Lepidoptera Americana and the correct name for Papilio multicaudatus.  The Lepidopterists' News 12: 101-102.

Brower, L. P.  1958.  Larval foodplant specificity in butterflies of the Papilio glaucus group. The Lepidopterists' News 12: 103-114.

Brower, L. P.  1958.  Bird predation and foodplant specificity in closely related procryptic insects.  American Naturalist 92: 183-187.

Brower, L. P. and  J. V. Z. Brower.  1956.  Cryptic coloration in the anthophilous moth Rhododipsa masoni.  American Naturalist 90: 177-182.

Brower, L. P. and J. V. Z. Brower.  1954.  The heredity of some spot aberrations in Lycaena phlaeas and L. hypophlaeas.  The Lepidopterists' News 8: 125-129.

GENERAL SCIENCE AND NON-REFEREED ARTICLES AND ABSTRACTS

Brower, L.P., Castilleja, G., & Gil, P.R. 2003. Monarch butterflies. In Wildlife Spectacles (eds R.A. Mittermeier, P.R. Gil, C.G. Mittermeier, T. Brooks, M. Hoffmann, W.R. Konstant, G.A.B. da Fonseca & R.B. Mast), pp. 298--303, 308-309, 313. Cemex-Agrupacion Sierra Madre-Conservation International, Mexico

Brower, L.P. 2003. Monarchs. In Encyclopedia of Insects (eds V.H. Resh & R. Ring CardŽ), pp. 739-743. Academic Press, Elsevier Science, San Diego, California.

Brower, L. P. 2001. Canary in the cornfield: the monarch and the Bt corn controversy. Orion 20:32-41.

Brower, L.P., & Zalucki, M.P. 1999. Bt corn and its effects on monarch butterflies:  a note of caution. Monarch News, 10, 1, 4-5.

Walton, R.K., & Brower, L.P. 1999. What we know that ain't so.....the 1998 fall Atlantic Coast monarch migration. American Butterflies: 7(3): 18-25.

Brower, L. P.  1999.  Will biotechnology doom the monarch?  Defenders (The Conservation Magazine of Defenders of Wildlife) 74(4): 39-41.

Brower, L. P. 1999.  Estimating the size of the fall breeding population of the monarch butterfly in eastern North America. Monarch News 9(2).

Brower, Lincoln, and Monica Missrie. 1999.  State of the Monarchy in Mexico:  an early update on the 1998-99 season. Monarch News 9(1): 3-4.

Brower, L. P., & Missrie, M. 1998.  Fires in the monarch butterfly sanctuaries in Mexico, Spring 1998.  Que Pasa 3(3):9-11..

Brower, L. P., & Missrie, M. 1998. Wildfires in Mexico:  the spring 1998 fires at monarch sanctuaries.  Monarch News 8(10):1, 3-4.

Brower, L. P.  1997.  A new paradigm in conservation of biodiversity conservation:  endangered biological phenomena (revised and updated).  In: Principles of Conservation Biology, 2nd edition. Eds: G. K. Meffe and C. R. Carroll, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, pp.115-118.

Alonso-Meija, A., L. Tennant de Alonso, and L. Brower. 1996. The president's column.  Maintaining migratory phenomena:  the Mexican monarch butterfly challenge. Society for Conservation Biology Newsletter 3: 1, 17.

Aridjis, H. and L.P. Brower.  1996.  Twilight of the monarchs.  Op-Ed page, The New York Times,  Friday, January 26, 1996. p. A-15.

Brower, L. P., M. Monroe, and K. Snow. 1996. The monarch habitat handbook. Xerces Society Special Publication January, 1996: 1-16.

Brower, L. P., L.S. Fink, A. V.Z. Brower, K. Leong, K. Oberhauser, S. Altizer, O. Taylor, D. Vickerman, W.H. Calvert, T. Van Hook, A. Alonso-M., S.B. Malcolm, D.F. Owen, and M.P. Zalucki. 1995. Reply to J. B. Keiper's letter: "Monarch transfer: a real concern?" Bioscience 46: 563-564.

Brower, L. P.  1994.  A new paradigm in conservation of biodiversity:  endangered biological phenomena.  In: Principles of Conservation Biology, Eds: G. K. Meffe and C. R. Carroll, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, pp. 104-106.

Bell, E., L.P. Brower, W.H. Calvert, J. Dayton, D. Frey, K. Leong, D. Murphy, R.M. Pyle, W. Sakai, K.B. Snow, and S. Weiss. 1993. The Monarch Project's Conservation and Management Guidelines for Preserving the Monarch Butterfly Migration and Monarch Overwintering Habitat in California.  Special Report of the Xerces Society,  pp. 1-43, + Appendices A-K.

Brower, L. P.  1993.  Deciphering the spring migration of the monarch butterfly.  Lore (Publication of the Milwaukee Public Museum), June 6-11.

Ishii, M., L.P. Brower, and T. Van Hook.  1993.  Autumnal movements of monarch butterflies along the Gulf Coast of Florida.  Proceedings of the XIX International Congress of Entomology, Beijing, China. p. 178. (1992). (abstract)

Brower, L.P.  1992.  The current status of butterfly royalty.  Monarchs and viceroys revisited.  Terra (Los Angeles County Museum publication) 30(4):4-15. (Includes reproductions of 12 of Brower's 35mm color slides.)

Ritland, D. B. and L.P. Brower.  1991. Letter to editor.  Mimicry and viceroy butterflies. Nature 353: 24.

Brower, L.P., M. Guinon, J. Lane, W.J. Libby, S.B. Malcolm, T. Moss, and K.B. Snow. 1990. The Monarch Project's Conservation and Management Program for the George Washington Park Forest & Monarch Butterfly Winter Habitat;  Conceptual Plan. The Monarch Project of the Xerces Society, Portland, Oregon. pp. vii + 31 + 1 map.

Brower, L. P. and S. B. Malcolm.  1989.  Endangered phenomena.  Wings 14(2):3-10.

Brower, L. P.  1989.  Practicing to deceive.  In: Science Year (1990), The World Book Annual Supplement, Ed: Anon., Chicago, pp. 68-83.

Brower, L.P. 1989.  Coevolutionary interactions of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, with avian predators and the North American milkweed (Asclepias) flora.  Second Congress  European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Rome (25-29 September 1989), p. 15. (abstract)

Brower, L. P.  1988.  Direct and indirect evidence on the modus operandi of chemical defense in the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).  Proceedings of the 18th International Ethology Congress, Brisbane, Australia, p. 39. (abstract)

Brower, L. P.  1988.  A place in the sun.  Animal Kingdom 91(July-Aug.):42-51.

Brower, L. P., B. E. Horner, M. A. Marty, C. M. Moffitt and B. Villa-R.  1988.  Errata.  Biotropica 20:135.

Brower, L. P.  1987.  A royal voyage to an enchanted forest.  Orion 6(3): 26-35.

Calvert, W. H., L. P. Brower, S. B. Malcolm, M. P. Zalucki, L. C. Snook, T. Van Hook, J. I. Glendinning, J. B. Anderson and C. Nagano.  1987.   Recommendations for the protection and management of monarch butterfly biological reserves in Mexico.  Report, presented to, Sr. Juan Jose Reyes Rodrigues, National Forestry Commission , Mexico City.  June 1987,  pp. 1-29.

Malcolm S. B.  and L. P. Brower.  1987.  Letter to editor.  White monarchs.  Antenna 11(1):2-3.

Brower, L. P.  1987.  Status of conservation of monarch butterflies in Mexico.  Atala 15(1-2):16. (abstract)

Brower, L.P. 1986.  Commentary:  the potential impact of dipel spraying on the monarch butterfly overwintering phenomenon. Atala 14(1): 17-19.

Brower, L. P.  1986.  The migrating monarch.  In:  Science Year (1987), The World Book Annual Supplement, Ed: Anon., Chicago, pp. 12-27.

Brower, L. P.  1985.  The yearly flight of the monarch butterfly.  Pacific Discovery 38(1):4-12.

Calvert, W. H., W. Zuchowski, and L. P. Brower.  1984.  Monarch butterfly conservation:  interactions of cold weather, forest thinning and storms on the survival of overwintering monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus L.) in Mexico.  Atala 9: 2-6.  (Published simultaneously in Spanish, pp. 24-28.)

Brower, L. P.  1984.  Una straordinaria migrazione a svernare sotto zero.  Airone 43 (November): 110-121.

Brower, L.P. 1984. Reflections in honour of E.B. Ford. Preface In R. I. Vane-Wright and P. R. Ackery (eds.), The Biology of Butterflies,  Academic Press, London, p. xxiv.

Brower, L. P.  1983.  Chemo-behavioral bases in vertebrates for the evolution of apose­ma­tism in insects.  Proceedings of the 18th International Ethological Congress Brisbane, Australia, p. 39. (abstract)

Brower, L. P. and W. H. Calvert.  1981.  Recommendations for the conserva­tion of overwintering monarch butterflies in Mexico.  Report to the World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D. C.  26 August 1981.

Brower, L. P.  1980. Remarks on endangered wildlife spectacles.  In:  Minutes of the 54th Meeting of the Commission, International Union of the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Survival Service Commission, Gainesville, Florida,  p.  26.

Brower, L. P. and P. Walford.  1979.  Model Zeta:  potential effects of diverting Connecti­cut River flood waters to Boston.  Newsletter of Connecticut River Watershed Council, November 1979, pp. 7-8.

Brower, L. P.  1977.  Monarch migration.  Natural History 86(June-July): 40-53. (Cover article.)

Brower, L. P.  1977.  Butterfly habitats and the natural phenomenon of flood­ing.  News of the Lepidopterists' Society 6: 6.

Brower, L. P., J. G. Collins, and J. W. Olver.  1977.  (Legislative Bill).  An act to investigate alternate water supply sources for various Connecticut Valley com­munities.  Massachusetts House of Representa­tives Bill 5368.

Brower, L. P.  1973.  Summary remarks on the Connecticut Wetlands Symposium (20 June 1973).  In: Proceedings of the First Wetlands Conference (In­stitute of Water Resources, University of Connecticut, Storrs), Eds: T Helfgott, M.W. Lefor and W.C. Kennard. Report No. 21, December, pp. 151-158.

Brower, L. P.  1968.  Automimicry, an extension of mimicry theory.  American  Zoologist 8: 475. (abstract)

Brower, L. P. and J. V. Z. Brower.  1962.  Investigations into mimicry.  Natural History 71(4): 8-19. (Cover article.)

Brower, L. P.  1962.  Biology of the monarch butterfly.  The Monarch Butterfly, 1960, by F.A. Urquhart, The University of Toronto Press.  Ecology 43: 181-182. (book review)

Brower, L.P., J.V.Z. Brower, and C.T. Collins.  1962.  Experimental studies of MŸllerian mimicry in Neotropical butterflies. American Zoologist 3(4). (Abstract 97).

Brower, L. P.  1961. Speciation.  In: The Encyclopedia of Biological Sciences,  Ed: Peter Gray, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, N.Y., pp. 952-953.

Brower, J.V.Z., and L.P. Brower. 1961. Further experimental studies of mimicry of honeybees (Apis mellifera) by syrphid flies (Eristalis vinetorum) with southern toads (Bufo terrestris) as predators. American Zoologist 1(4): (Abstract 30).

Brower, L. P.  1959. Autecological relationships and interspecific sexual behavior in butterflies of the Papilio glaucus group.  Proceedings of the  XVth. International Congress of  Zoology, London: 810-812. (abstract)

Brower, J. V. Z. and L. P. Brower.  1958.  Mimicry in butterflies.  The Times Science Review  30: 17-18.

 

1977    Brower, L. P. and J. C. Huberth. Strategy for survival:  behavioral ecology of the monarch butterfly.  Copyright 1976, Amherst College, revised 1977. (30 minutes, 16 mm, color, sound).  Released by Harper and Row Media, September 1977. Script by L. P. Brower, photography by L. Brower, J. Huberth,  N. Doob and J. Strawbridge (animation). (See Awards.)     

1974    Brower, L. P. Planning for floods:  a critique of federal flood control policy.  Copyright 1974, Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. (28 minutes, 16 mm, color, sound. Script by L. P. Brower, photography by L.P. Brower and S. Brown, narrated by Hugh Downs.  Note:  Following the 1993 flooding of the Mississippi River, The Environmental Defense Fund reissued this film as a Videotape  (EDF Letter 24(6):7).     

1972    Brower, L. P. The flooding river:  a study in riverine ecology.  Copyright 1972, John Wiley, Inc. (34 minutes, 16 mm, color, sound).  Script by L. P. Brower, photography by L. P. Brower,  R. Hubley, and J. Strawbridge (animation); narrated by J. Huberth.  (See Awards.)

1968    Brower, L. P. Patterns for survival:  study of mimicry and protective coloration in tropical insects.  Copyright 1968, Amherst College.  Library of Congress Cat. Card No. Fi-A-68.  (28 minutes, 16 mm. color, sound).

Two 8mm educational film loops were derived from this film:

            1) Brower, L. P.  1966.  Animal camouflage.  Insects.  Ealing Corp. Film Loop 81-336.  Library of Congress Cat. Card No. Fi-A-66-43.

            2) Brower, L. P.  1966.  Warning coloration and behavior.  Insects.  Ealing Corp. Film Loop 81-337.  Library of Congress Cat. Card No. Fi-A-66-42.

1962    Brower, L. P., and F. P. Cranston. Courtship behavior of the queen butterfly, Danaus gilippus berenice.  Copyright 1962, L.P. Brower (18 minutes, 16mm, color, sound). Pennsylvania State University Psychological Cinema Register Film No. 2123K.  Library of Congress Card Cat. No. Fi-A-63-822.  Script, photography and narration by L.P. Brower.

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