EcologybioRxivPreprint
Spatiotemporal patterns of breeding challenge the successive broods model in a migratory butterfly
Aramee C. Diethelm, Cheryl B. Schultz, Stephanie R. Mcknight…·Elizabeth E. Crone
This study challenges the successive broods model by showing western monarch butterflies exhibit a diffusion-like expansion of breeding rather than sequential generational replacement.
DOI 10.64898/2026.04.01.715883