MBF is pleased to share peer-reviewed scientific publications resulting from work we support. Please also see links to general publications below.
Scientific Research Publications
Peer-reviewed papers on research funded partially or completely by MBF.
Assisted Migration
- Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero (2024) Mexican forest ‘relocated’ in attempt to save iconic monarch butterflies. Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03377-3
- Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero, Véronica Osuna-Vallejo, Patricia Herrejon-Calderón, Legna A. Pérez-Cruz, M. Guadalupe Joaquin-Juan, Ana Laura Cruzado-Vargas, Gregory A. O'Neill, Ana Gabriela Zacarias-Correa, Gyorgy E. Manzanilla-Quijada, Roberto Lindig-Cisneros, Arnulfo Blanco-García, Angel R. Endara-Agramont, Leonel Lopez-Toledo (2024) Establishing monarch butterfly overwintering sites for future climates: Abies religiosa upper altitudinal limit expansion by assisted migration. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Volume 7, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1440517
- Bryce Richardson, Gerald Rehfeldt, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero, Elizabeth Milano (2024) A climate analog approach to evaluate seed transfer and vegetation transitions Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Vol. 7, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1325264
- Erika Gómez-Pineda, Arnulfo Blanco-García, Roberto Lindig-Cisneros, Greg A. O'Neill, Leonel Lopez-Toledo, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero (2021) Pinus pseudostrobus assisted migration trial with rain exclusion: maintaining Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve forest cover in an environment affected by climate change, New Forests 52, pp. 995–1010, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007-s11056-201-09838-1
- Ana Laura Cruzado-Vargas, Arnulfo Blanco-García, Roberto Lindig-Cisneros, Mariela Gómez-Romero, Leonel Lopez-Toledo, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero (2021) Reciprocal Common Garden Altitudinal Transplants Reveal Potential Negative Impacts of Climate Change on Abies religiosa Populations in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve Overwintering Sites. Forests, Volume 12, Issue 1, DOI: 10.3390/f12010069
- Aglaen Lucero Carbajal Navarro, Ana Laura Cruzado-Vargas, Arnulfo Blanco-García, Erika Gómez Pineda, et.al, (2019) Ecological Restoration of Abies religiosa Forests Using Nurse Plants and Assisted Migration in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 7, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00421
- M.A. Ortiz-Bibian, A. Blanco-García, R.A. Lindig-Cisneros, M. Gómez Romero, D. Castellanos-Acuña, Y. Herrerías-Diego, N.M. Sánchez-Vargas, C. Sáenz-Romero (2017) Genetic Variation in Abies religiosa for Quantitative Traits and Delineation of Elevational and Climatic Zoning for Maintaining Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Sites in Mexico, considering Climatic Change Silvae Genetica, Volume 66: Issue 1, pp: 14 - 23, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sg-2017-0003
Forest Health
- Ma. Isabel Ramírez, Jovanka Špirić, Francisco Orozco-Meléndez, Ana Merlo-Reyes (2024) Sustainability of the community model of avocado production in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Michoacán, México GeoJournal, Volume 89, article 189, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-024-11195.3
- Erika Gómez-Pineda, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero, Miguel Ángel Salinas-Melgoza, M. Isabel Rámirez (2023) Drought occurrence and forest management: Interrelated drivers of sanitary logging in central México temperate forests Trees, Forests and People, Volume 13, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2023.100413
- Erika Gómez-Pineda, William M. Hammond, Oscar Trejo-Ramirez, Margarita Gil-Fernández, Craig D. Allen, Arnulfo Blanco-García, Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero (2022) Drought years promote bark beetle outbreaks in Mexican forests of Abies religiosa and Pinus pseudostrobus Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 505, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119944
Monarch Monitoring
- Delbert A. Green II (2023) Tracking technologies: advances driving new insights into monarch migration Current Opinion in Insect Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2023.101111
Flight Challenge
- Inhee Lee, Roger Hsiao, Gordy Carichner, Chin-Wei Hsu, Mingyu Yang, Sara Shoouri, Katherine Ernst, Tess Carichner, Yuyang Li, Jaechan Lim, Cole R. Julick, Eunseong Moon, Yi Sun, Jamie Phillips, Kristi L. Montooth, Delbert A. Green II, Hun-Seok Kim, and David Blaauw (2022) mSAIL: Milligram-Scale Multi-Modal Sensor Platform for Monarch Butterfly Migration Tracking ACM MobiCom ’21, January 31-February 4, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3447993.3483263
Lincoln Brower Award Publications
- Ana Merlo Reyes, Christine Baduel, Céline Duwig, M. Isabel Ramírez (2024) Risk assessment of pesticides used in the eastern Avocado Belt of Michoacan, Mexico: A survey and water monitoring approach Science of the Total Environment, DOI: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1iUsiB8cd0GUC
- Cody Prouty, Lewis J. Bartlett, Vera Krischik, Sonia Altizer (2023) Adult monarch butterflies show high tolerance tomneonicotinoid insecticides Ecological Entomology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13245
- Anna Skye Bruce, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Chris Trosen, Karen Oberhauser, Claudio Gratton (2021) Landscape- and local-level variables affect monarchs in Midwest grasslands Landsc Ecology, 37, pp. 93-108, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01341-4
General Publications
Field Guides for the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
