PUBLICATION LIST
LINDA SUSAN FINK
July 2007

RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED (* = undergraduate author, presenter)

2007.   Fink, L.S. The monarch butterfly man: A Lincoln portrait.   Invited presentation, Symposium on Honour of Lincoln Pierson Brower.  Fifth International Conference on the Biology of Butterflies.  Villa Mondragone, Italy, 2-7 July.

2006. Fink, L.S., Brower, L.P. and T.Himelright Helton.* The limited freeze resistance of overwintering monarch butterflies.  Annual meeting of the Lepidopterists' Society, 14-18 June, Gainesville FL.

2006. Fink, L.S., T. Himelright* and L.P. Brower. The limited freeze resistance of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus, from Mexican overwintering sites.   Entomological Society of America Eastern Branch, annual meeting. Charlottesville VA, 14 March 2006.

2006. L.P. Brower, L.S. Fink, I. Ramirez, S. Weiss, D. Slayback and D. Perault. The physiological ecology of overwintering monarch butterflies. Invited paper in the symposium, Ecophysiology and conservation: the contributions of energetics. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, annual meeting.  Orlando FL, 4-8 January.

2005. L.P. Brower, L.S. Fink, D.E. Slayback, D. Perault. Deterioration of the prime overwintering habitat in the monarch butterfly biosphere reserve in Mexico. Invited paper in the symposium, Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly. Pacific Grove CA, 2 March.   Entomological Society of America Pacific Branch, annual meeting.

2005. D. Slayback, I. Ramirez, L.P. Brower, D. Perault, L.S. Fink. A remote-sensing overview of forest cover change in the monarch butterfly overwintering region in Mexico. Invited paper in the symposium, Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly. Pacific Grove CA, 2 March 2005.  Entomological Society of America Pacific Branch, annual meeting.

2004. Tannahill, C.* and L. Fink. The effects of Japanese stilt grass, Microstegium vimineum, on earthworm abundance and diversity in central Virginia.  Annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists, 14-17 April, Memphis TN.

2003. Chilton, R.*, Tannahill, C.*, Stassi, A*., and L. Fink. The effects of logging on the occurrence of an invasive exotic grass, Microstegium vimineum.   Annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists, 11 April, Arlington VA.

2002. Kellogg, S.K.*, L.S. Fink, and L.P. Brower. Parasitism of luna moths by the non-native tachinid fly, Compsilura concinnata, in central Virginia. The Lepidopterists' Society meeting, Charleston, S.C.

2002. Basten, C.S.B.*, L.S. Fink, and L.P. Brower. Changes in appetite of female migratory monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus). The Lepidopterists' Society meeting, Charleston, S.C.

2000. Perault, D. and L.S. Fink. GIS and GPS technology in forest research and management [lecture and workshop] Managing to Create the Ancient Forest conference, Sweet Briar College, 18 May

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed   (* Sweet Briar undergraduate)

Slayback, D.A., Brower, L.P., Ramirez, M.I. and Fink, L.S. 2007. Establishing the presence and absence of overwintering colonies of the monarch butterfly in Mexico by the use of small aircraft .  American Entomologist 53 (1): 28-40.

Brower, L. P., Fink, L.S. and P. Walford.  2006.  Fueling the fall migration of the monarch butterfly. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46: 1123-1142.

Kellogg, S.K.*, Fink, L.S., & Brower, L.P. 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

Fink, L.S. 1997. Using video production in teaching natural history. The American Biology Teacher 59(3): 142-146.

Fink, L.S. 1995. Foodplant effects on colour morphs of Eumorpha fasciata caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 56(3): 423-437.

Brower, L.P., Fink, L.S., Brower, A.V.Z., plus 11 additional authors. 1995. On the dangers of interpopulational transfers of monarch butterflies. BioScience 45(8): 540-544.

Brower, L.P., Ivie, M.A., Fink, L.S., Watts, J., & R.A. Moranz. 1993. Life history of Anetia briarea and its bearing on the evolutionary relationships of the Danainae. Tropical Lepidoptera 3(2): 64-73.

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

Fink, L.S. 1987. Green lynx spider egg sacs: sources of mortality and the function of female guarding. J. Arachnology 15: 231-239.

Fink, L.S. 1986. Costs and benefits of maternal behaviour in the green lynx spider (Oxyopidae, Peucetia viridans). Animal Behaviour 34: 1051-1059.

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

Fink, L.S. 1984. Venom spitting by the green lynx spider, Peucetia viridans. J. Arachnology 12: 372-73.

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

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

Other publications

Brower, L.P., Fink, L.S., Brower, A.V.Z., plus 11 additional authors. 1996. Reply to Keiper (Letter to the editor). BioScience 46(8): 563-564.

Fink, L.S. 1994. Book review of: Caterpillars: Ecological and Evolutionary Constraints on Foraging (1993). N.E. Stamp & T.M. Casey, eds. Chapman and Hall. Animal Behaviour 47(6): 1493-1494.

Fink, L.S. 1994. The Pond in the Dell. Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine (Fall): 8-9.

Fink, L.S. 1987. Behavioral differences among color morphs of sphingid caterpillars (abstract). Amer. Zoologist 27(4).