publications
In review
Halsch, C. A., Elphic, C., Forister, M. L., Wagner, D., Ware, J., Grames, E. (in review) The interconnections among drivers of insect biodiversity loss
Carroll, C. F., Nussear, K. E., Enders-Niell, L., and Forister, M. L. (in review). While they’re still here: assessing status and habitat for the last populations of the Carson wandering skipper (Pseudocopaeodes eunus obscurus)
Jahner, J. P., Buerkle, C. Alex, Gannon, D. G., Grames, E. M., McFarlane, S. E., Sierfert, A., Bell, K. L., DeLeo, V. L., Forister, M. L., Harrison, J. G., Laughlin, D. C., Patternson, A. C., Powers, B. F., Werner, C. M., and Oleksy, I. A. (in review) Interpretable and predictive models to harness the life science data revolution
Edwards, C. B., Zipkin, E. F., Henry, E. H., Haddad, N. M., Forister, M. L., Burls, K. J., Campbell, S. P., Crone, E. E., Diffendorfer, J. Douglas, M. R., Drum, R. G., Fallon, C. E., Glassberg, J., Grames, E. M., Hatfield, R., Herschcovich, S., Hoffman-Black, S., Larsen, E. A., Leuenberger, W., Linders, M. J., Longcore, T., Marschalek, D. A., Michielini, J., Neupane, N., Ries, L., Shapiro, A. M., Swengel, A. B., Swengel, S. R., Van Deynze, B., Wiedmann, J., Thogmartin, W. E., and Schultz, C. B. (in review) Butterflies are declining rapidly in the United States during the 21st century
Grames, E. M., Flynn, M., Edwards, C., Thogmartin, W., Glassberg, J., and Forister M. L. (in review) An efficient method for generating extent of occurrence maps applied to North American butterflies
Christensen, T., Dyer, L. A., Forister, M. L., Bowers, M. D., Carper, A., Teglas, M. B., Hurtado, P., and Smilanich, A. M. (in review) Host plant-mediation of viral transmission and its consequences for a native butterfly.
Published and in-press
2024
Grames, E. M. Forister, M. L. (in press) Sparse modeling for climate variable selection across trophic levels.
Grele, A.J., Massad, T. J., Uckele, K. A., Dyer, L. A., Braga, L., Forister, M. L., Garro, L. S., Kato, M. J., Lopez, H. G., Nascimento, A. R., Simbana, W. R., Smilanich, A. M., Stireman, J. O, Tepe, E. J., Richards, L. A. (in press) Reduction of intraspecific and interspecific tropical plant diversity alters insect richness, herbivory, and ecosystem resilience.
Doan, L. M., Miller, J. S., Brown, J. W., Forister, M. L. and Dyer, L. A. (in press) New species of the hyperdiverse geometrid genus Eois (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae) from the New World tropics
2023
2022
2020
Forister, M. L., Philbin, C. S., Marion, Z. H., Buerkle, C. A., Dodson, C. D., Fordyce, J. A., Forister, G. W., Lebeis, S. L., Lucas, L. K., Nice, C. C., and Gompert, Z. (2020). Predicting patch occupancy reveals the complexity of host range expansion. Science Advances 6:eabc6852
2018
Forister, M. L., Fordyce, J. A., Nice, C. C., Thorne, J. H., Waetjen, D. P., and Shapiro, A. M. (2018) Impacts of a millennium drought on butterfly faunal dynamics. Climate Change Responses 5(1):3
Harrison, J. G., Parchman, T. L., Cook, D., Gardner, D. R., and Forister, M. L. (2018) A heritable symbiont and host-associated factors shape fungal endophyte communities across spatial scales. Journal of Ecology 1-13
Forister, M. L., Agosta , S. J. (2018) Evolution of specialization. Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. Ed. Karin Pfennig. New York: Oxford University Press.
2017
2014
2012
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Jahner, J. P., Shapiro, A. M., and Forister, M. L. (2012) Drivers of hybridization in a 66-generation record of Colias butterflies. Evolution 66:818-830
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2011
2010
Greeney, H.F., T.R. Walla, J. Jahner, and R. Berger. (2010) Shelter building behavior of Pyrrhopyge papius (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) and the use of the Mayfield method for estimating survivorship of shelter-building Lepidopteran larvae. Zoologia
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2009
2007
2005
2004
2003
2002
Books, book chapters, and book reviews
Books and book chapters
Lucas, L. K., Forister, M. L., Fordyce, J. A., and Nice, C. C. (2016) Mountains of detail: on the trail with Nabokov's blues. in S. G. Blackwell and K. Johnson, editors. Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art. Yale
Dyer, L. A., and Forister, M. L. (2015) The Lives of Lepidopterists. Springer
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Dyer, L. A., Massad, T. J., and Forister, M. L. (2015) The question of scale in trophic ecology. in T. C. Hanley and K. J. La Pierre, editors. Trophic Ecology: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interactions across Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems. Cambridge University Press.
Book reviews
Forister, M. L. (2021). The Disappearance of Butterflies, J. H. Reichholf & Nature's Best Hope, D. W. Tallamy. American Entomologist
Forister, M. L. (2018) Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, A Poisonous Plant, and their Remarkable Story of Coevolution. The Quarterly Review of Biology 93:32.
Forister, M. L. and McKay, J. K. (2005) Speciation, J. A. Coyne and H. A. Orr. Ecology 86: 808-809.
Miscellany
Forister, M. L. and Shapiro, A. M. (2018) Spring flight of California Central Valley Butterflies (updated), (eds. Milanes, C., Kadir, T., Lock, B., Monserrat, L., Pham, N., and Randles, K.) California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA).
Forister, M. L. (2017) Long-term data and long-term analyses on the population dynamics and ecology of Lepidoptera. News of the Lepidopterists Society
Forister, M. L. and Shapiro, A. M. (2013) Spring flight of California Central Valley Butterflies (updated), (eds. Kadir, T., Mazur, L., Milanes, C., and Randles, K.) California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA).
Forister, M. L. and Shapiro, A. M. (2009) Spring flight of California Central Valley Butterflies, in Indicators of Climate Change in California, (eds. Mazur, L., and Milanes, C.) California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA).
Forister, M. L. (2007) Butterflies and climate change. Wings, the magazine of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.