Temporal matches and mismatches between monarch butterfly and milkweed population changes over the past 12,000 years
J. Boyle, S. R. Strickler, A. Twyford, A. Ricono, A. Powell, J. Zhang, H. Xu, H. J. Dalgleish, G. D. Jander, A. Agrawal, J. R. Puzey
The paper analyzes the demographic history of monarch butterflies and milkweed over 12,000 years, finding concurrent range expansions but no recent population contractions in either species.
bioRxiv · Feb 25, 2022 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology