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The Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program (IMMP) is a powerful research protocol designed to guide monarch conservation at local and national levels. Its data have contributed to numerous studies, including those highlighted below, as well as many local efforts to better understand and protect monarchs and their habitat. If you are interested in utilized IMMP data for your research, please click here.

IMMP Publications & News Articles

  • Cariveau AB, Holt HL, Ward JP, Lukens L, Kasten K, Thieme J, Caldwell W, Tuerk K, Baum KA, Drobney P, Drum RG, Grundel R, Hamilton K, Hoang C, Kinkead K, McIntyre J, Thogmartin WE, Turner T, Weiser EL, Oberhauser K (2019) The Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program: From Design to Implementation. Front Ecol Evol 7:167. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00167
  • Weiser EL, Diffendorfer JE, Lopez-Hoffman L, Semmens D, Thogmartin WE (2020) Challenges for leveraging citizen science to support statistically robust monitoring programs. Biol Conserv 242:108411. doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108411
  • Weiser EL, Diffendorfer JE, Grundel R, López-Hoffman L, Pecoraro S, Semmens D, Thogmartin WE (2019) Balancing sampling intensity against spatial coverage for a community science monitoring programme. J Appl Ecol 56(10):2252-2263. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13491
  • Editor’s Choice 56:10 – How to conduct citizen science that works. (2019) https://appliedecologistsblog.com/

Papers Using IMMP Data and/or Protocols:

  • McIntyre P, Ceasar H, Young BE (2024) Mapping migration habitat for western monarch butterflies reveals need for public-private approach to conservation. Front Ecol Evol 12. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1460363
  • Cariveau AJB, Haynes GA, Perish P, Tuerk K, Nootenboom C, Mitchell T, Lonsdorf E, Oberhauser K, Snell-Rood EC (2024) Host plants and landscape predict use of roadside habitat by breeding monarchs. Insect Conserv Diver 17:5. doi.org/10.1111/icad.12758
  • Lukens L, Thieme J, Thogmartin W (2024) Milkweed and floral resource availability for monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in the United States. Front Ecol Evol 12. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1330583
  • Keele EC, McNeil DJ, Duchamp JE, Bastidas E, Larkin JL (2023) Assessing the benefits of managed golden-winged warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) nesting habitat for breeding monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in the western Great Lakes. J Insect Conserv 27. doi.org/10.1007/s10841-023-00505-8
  • Keele EC, McNeil DJ, Duchamp JE, Larkin JL (2023) Factors driving bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus) and butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) use of sheared shrubland and young forest communities of the western Great Lakes. Environ Entomol 52:6. doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvad101
  • Bruce AS, Thogmartin WE, Trosen C, Oberhauser K, Gratton C. (2021) Landscape- and local-level variables affect monarchs in Midwest grasslands. Landscape Ecol 37. doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01341-4
  • Lukens L, Kasten K, Stenoien C, Cariveau A, Caldwell W, Oberhauser K (2020) Monarch habitat in conservation grasslands. Front Ecol Evol 8:13. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00013
  • Cariveau AB, Anderson E, Baum KA, Hopwood J, Lonsdorf E, Nootenboom C, Tuerk K, Oberhauser K, Snell-Rood E (2019) Rapid assessment of roadsides as potential habitat for monarchs and other pollinators. Front Ecol Evol 7:386. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00386