Economic measures of pollination services: shortcomings and future directions

TD Breeze, N Gallai, LA Garibaldi, XS Li - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2016 - cell.com
Over the past 20 years, there has been growing interest in the possible economic impacts of
pollination service loss and management. Although the literature area has expanded …

Monarch butterfly population decline in North America: identifying the threatening processes

WE Thogmartin, R Wiederholt… - Royal Society …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) population in North America has sharply declined
over the last two decades. Despite rising concern over the monarch butterfly's status, no …

Ecosystem services from transborder migratory species: implications for conservation governance

L Lopez-Hoffman, CC Chester… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
This article discusses the conservation challenges of volant migratory transborder species
and conservation governance primarily in North America. Many migratory species provide …

Restoring monarch butterfly habitat in the Midwestern US:'all hands on deck'

WE Thogmartin, L López-Hoffman… - Environmental …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The eastern migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) has
declined by> 80% within the last two decades. One possible cause of this decline is the loss …

Quasi-extinction risk and population targets for the Eastern, migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)

BX Semmens, DJ Semmens, WE Thogmartin… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The Eastern, migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus), an iconic
North American insect, has declined by~ 80% over the last decade. The monarch's multi …

Butterfly citizen scientists in the United States increase their engagement in conservation

EJ Lewandowski, KS Oberhauser - Biological Conservation, 2017 - Elsevier
Nature-based citizen science projects can educate their volunteers about conservation
issues and encourage them to engage in conservation actions. Theory and previous …

A citizen army for science: quantifying the contributions of citizen scientists to our understanding of monarch butterfly biology

L Ries, K Oberhauser - BioScience, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The first monarch citizen science program was launched in the 1950s and, since then,
thousands of volunteers have made fundamental contributions to our accumulating …

The worth of wildlife: A meta-analysis of global non-market values of threatened species

V Subroy, A Gunawardena, M Polyakov, R Pandit… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Clustered robust meta-regression analysis is applied to 109 willingness to pay (WTP)
estimates for threatened species from 47 stated-preference studies in 19 countries. Our …

Robotic bees for crop pollination: Why drones cannot replace biodiversity

SG Potts, P Neumann, B Vaissière… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The notion that robotic crop pollination will solve the decline in pollinators has gained wide
popularity recently (Fig. 1), and in March 2018 Walmart filed a patent for autonomous robot …

Traffic influences nutritional quality of roadside plants for monarch caterpillars

TS Mitchell, L Agnew, R Meyer, KL Sikkink… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Roadside habitats are increasingly being targeted for restoration and conservation.
Roadside habitats often exhibit altered soil and plant chemistry due to pollution from …