RESEARCH
PROFESSOR LINCOLN P. BROWER
(434) 277-5065
brower@sbc.edu
Education:
Ph.D. 1957 Yale University (Zoology)
B.A. 1953 Princeton University (Biology)
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PROFESSIONAL CAREER
1957-1958
Fulbright Scholar, Genetics Laboratory, Oxford University
1958-1980 Instructor - Stone Professor of Biology, Amherst
College
1980-1995 Professor of Zoology, The University of Florida
1995-1997 Distinguished Service Professor, Department of
Zoology,
The University of Florida (Emeritus,
1 July 1997)
1997- Research
Professor of Biology, Sweet Briar College
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Research
My current research is on
the overwintering, migration and conservation biology
of the monarch butterfly, which undergoes one of the
most extraordinary annual migrations on our planet.
I have been a student and admirer of the monarch for
more than forty years, as my publication list attests.
In
collaboration with Linda Fink and scientists from UNAM (Mexico
City), Lynchburg College, and NASA-Goddard, our lab is integrating
ecophysiology (cold tolerance and lipid metabolism), field exploration,
geographic information systems (GIS), and microclimate modeling,
to understand why monarchs are so selective in the habitats they
use for wintering. (Click
here for the abstract of the grant funding this research.)
In addition to my curiosity about the monarch's natural history,
my work is motivated by the desire to provide sound scientific
recommendations to the conservation organizations and government
agencies charged with protecting the monarchs' fragile and disappearing
habitat in Mexico, Canada and the United States.
My
broader areas of interest include mimicry, ecological chemistry,
chemical defense, scientific film making, riverine ecology, and
the conservation of endangered biological phenomena and ecosystems.
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Selected recent
publications (full publication
list)
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. download
PDF reprint
Bojórquez, -Tapia, Luis A., Brower, L.P.,
Castilleja, G., Sánchez-Colón, S., Hernández,
M., Calvert, W.H., Díaz, S., Gómez-Priego, P., Alcantar,
G., Melgarejo, E.D., Solares, M.J., Gutiérrez, L., &
Juárez, M.de.L. 2003. Mapping expert knowledge: redesigning
the monarch butterfly biosphere reserve. Conservation Biology
17: 367-379 .
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.
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