publications
Papers are listed chronologically, with chapters,
book reviews and other miscellany at the bottom of the page.
Papers are listed chronologically, with chapters,
book reviews and other miscellany at the bottom of the page.
Papers that use data from our long-term monitoring
work are marked with three asterisks (***).
In review
*** Gbolahan, R., Forister, M. L., Halsch, C., Dittemore, C., Shapiro, A. M., and Gompert, Z. (in review) Temporal occupancy distributions reveal multifaceted and heterogeneous effects of climatic variation on montane butterflies
Jahner, J. P., Forister, M. L., Parchman, T., Burdo, S., McFarlane, S. E., Buerkle, C. A., Nice, C. C., Fordyce, J. A., and Shapiro, A. M. (in review) Temporal dynamics of color polymorphism and hybridization in Colias butterflies
Anderson, A., Code, Aimee, Malfi, Rosemary, Forister, M. L. (in review) An initial assessment of risk to pollinators from mosquito control in residential settings
*** Christensen, T., Halsch, C., Dyer, L. A., Smilanich, A. M., Shapiro, A. M., and Forister, M. L. (in review). Specialized flower visitation in montane butterflies is associated with positive population trajectories over time
Agneray, A., Parchman, T., Forister, M. L., and Leger, E. A. (in review) Unexpected productivity and invasion resistance from plant communities assembled from allopatric populations
Dittemore, C. M., Anderson, A., Code, A., Lenard, A., Douglas, M. R., Halsch, C. A., and Forister, M. L. (in review) Pesticide contamination of two urban areas has implications for insect conservation and green space management
Lenzo, L., Forister, M. L., Olwell, P., and Leger, E. A. (in review). Climate change, weather, and geography shape seed mass variation and decline across western North America.
Bradford, T. A., Murphy, D. D., Gienger, C. M., Paulson, E. L., Balmaki, B., Connoers, C. J., Forister, M. L. (in review) Investigating population status, habitat, and ecological interactions for the Sand Mountain blue, one of North America's most geographically restricted butterflies.
Grames, E., Forister, M. L., Van Deynze, B., Thogmartin, W., Diffendorfer, J., Schultz, C., Crone, E., Fallon, C., Burls, K., Henry, E., Leuenberger, W., Bekris, Y., Edwards, C., Singh, D., Douglas, Margaret. (in review) Sampling bias across the continent: Are participatory science programs capturing the drivers of global change?
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 based on high-dimensional data in ecology and evolution
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
Published and in-press
2025
*** Henry, E., Edwards, C., Shirey, V., Pippen, J., Waetjen, D., Forister, M. L., Larsen, E., Schultz, C., Michielini, J., Brockman, N., Burls, K., Drum, R., Gatch, M., Glassberg, J., Hamlett, N., Hershcovich, S., Le, C., McGaffin, S., Meilinger, J., Richter, L., Rochefort, R., Schelz, C., Shapiro, A., Sullivan, K., Taron, D., Thogmartin, W., Walker, A., Westphal, A., Wiedmann, J., Wilcockson, I., Zaspel, J., and Ries, L. (2025) Twenty years (2000-2020) of butterfly monitoring data across the contiguous United States. Scientific Data
2024
2023
2022
2021
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
2019
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
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
*** 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
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
2009
2008
2007
2006
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
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.
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.