Predicting monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) movement and egg-laying with a spatially-explicit agent-based model: The role of monarch perceptual range and spatial memory
Predicting monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) movement and egg-laying with a spatially-explicit agent-based model: The role of monarch perceptual range and spatial memory
Tyler J. Grant,Hazel R. Parry,M. Zalucki,S. Bradbury
2018 · DOI: 10.1016/J.ECOLMODEL.2018.02.011
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TLDR
A spatially-explicit, agent-based model for summer breeding, non-migratory female monarch butterfly movement and egg-laying on an Iowa, USA landscape is developed that provides the foundation to link national and regional monarch conservation goals to fine scale spatial configurations of habitat patches in defined landscapes.