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DOI	10.3390/insects11040257
	Her Majesty's Desert Throne: The Ecology of Queen Butterfly Oviposition on Mojave Milkweed Host Plants
	Grodsky, Steven M.1; Saul-Gershenz, Leslie S.1,2; Moore-O'; Leary, Kara A.3,5; Hernandez, Rebecca R.1,4
通讯作者	Grodsky, Steven M.
来源期刊	INSECTS
EISSN	2075-4450
出版年	2020
卷号	11 期号:4
英文摘要	Butterfly-host plant relationships can inform our understanding of ecological and trophic interactions that contribute to ecosystem function, resiliency, and services. The ecology of danaid-milkweed (Apocynaceae) host plant interactions has been studied in several biomes but is neglected in deserts. Our objective was to determine effects of plant traits, seasonality, and landscape-level host plant availability on selection of Mojave milkweed (Asclepias nyctaginifolia A. Gray) by ovipositing monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) and queen butterflies (Danaus gilippus thersippus) in the Californian Mojave Desert. We surveyed all known Mojave milkweed locations in the Ivanpah Valley, California (n = 419) during early, mid-, and late spring in 2017. For each survey, we counted monarch and queen butterfly eggs on each Mojave milkweed plant. We also measured canopy cover, height, volume, and reproductive stage of each Mojave milkweed plant. We counted a total of 276 queen butterfly eggs and zero monarch butterfly eggs on Mojave milkweed host plants. We determined that count of queen butterfly eggs significantly increased with increasing Mojave milkweed canopy cover. Additionally, count of queen butterfly eggs was: (1) greater on adult Mojave milkweed plants than on juvenile and seedling plants and greater on juvenile Mojave milkweed plants than on seedling plants; and (2) greater during early spring than mid-spring-we recorded no eggs during late spring. Based on aggregation indices, queen butterfly eggs occurred on Mojave milkweed plants in a nonrandom, clustered pattern throughout the Ivanpah Valley. We provide the first evidence of trophic interactions between queen butterflies and Mojave milkweed at multiple spatial scales in the Mojave Desert, suggesting that conservation and management practices for both species should be implemented concurrently. Given its role as an herbivore, pollinator and prey, the queen butterfly may serve as a model organism for understanding effects of anthropogenic disturbance (e.g., solar energy development) on bottom-up and trophic interactions among soils, plants and animals in desert ecosystems.
英文关键词	Danaus host plant insect-plant interactions Mojave Desert Mojave milkweed oviposition queen butterfly
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000533910800028
WOS关键词	DANAUS-PLEXIPPUS L. ; MONARCH BUTTERFLIES ; SOLAR-ENERGY ; LEPIDOPTERA ; SELECTION ; GRANIVORY ; PATTERNS ; GILIPPUS ; LAND ; EAST
WOS类目	Entomology
WOS研究方向	Entomology
来源机构	University of California, Davis
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/318931
作者单位	1.Univ Calif Davis, John Muir Inst Environm, Wild Energy Initiat, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616 USA; 2.Univ Calif Davis, Dept Entomol & Nematol, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616 USA; 3.Univ Calif Davis, Ctr Populat Biol, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616 USA; 4.Univ Calif Davis, Dept Land Air & Water Resources, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616 USA; 5.US Fish & Wildlife Serv, Pacific Southwest Reg, 3020 State Univ Dr East, Sacramento, CA 95819 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Grodsky, Steven M.,Saul-Gershenz, Leslie S.,Moore-O',et al. Her Majesty's Desert Throne: The Ecology of Queen Butterfly Oviposition on Mojave Milkweed Host Plants[J]. University of California, Davis,2020,11(4).
APA	Grodsky, Steven M.,Saul-Gershenz, Leslie S.,Moore-O',Leary, Kara A.,&Hernandez, Rebecca R..(2020).Her Majesty's Desert Throne: The Ecology of Queen Butterfly Oviposition on Mojave Milkweed Host Plants.INSECTS,11(4).
MLA	Grodsky, Steven M.,et al."Her Majesty's Desert Throne: The Ecology of Queen Butterfly Oviposition on Mojave Milkweed Host Plants".INSECTS 11.4(2020).