List of works - Matthew L. Forister

A Neutral Model for the Evolution of Diet Breadth

scientific article published on 05 May 2017

A complete record from colonization to extinction reveals density dependence and the importance of winter conditions for a population of the silvery blue, Glaucopsyche lygdamus

scientific article published on January 2011

A hierarchical bayesian approach to ecological count data: a flexible tool for ecologists

scientific article

A hierarchical perspective on the diversity of butterfly species' responses to weather in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

scientific article published on August 2014

A nonlinear relationship between genetic diversity and productivity in a polyphagous seed beetle

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

Additive genetic effects in interacting species jointly determine the outcome of caterpillar herbivory

scientific article published in 2022

Admixture and the organization of genetic diversity in a butterfly species complex revealed through common and rare genetic variants

scientific article published on 16 June 2014

After 60 years, an answer to the question: what is the Karner blue butterfly?

scientific article published on 22 December 2010

Ant association facilitates the evolution of diet breadth in a lycaenid butterfly.

scientific article published on 3 November 2010

Anthropogenic islands in the arid West: comparing the richness and diversity of insect communities in cultivated fields and neighboring wildlands

scientific article

Bayesian analysis of molecular variance in pyrosequences quantifies population genetic structure across the genome of Lycaeides butterflies

scientific article published on 21 May 2010

Caterpillars on a phytochemical landscape: The case of alfalfa and the Melissa blue butterfly

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Challenges and advances in the study of latitudinal gradients in multitrophic interactions, with a focus on consumer specialization

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity

scientific article

Contribution of urban expansion and a changing climate to decline of a butterfly fauna

scientific article

Differential hippocampal gene expression is associated with climate-related natural variation in memory and the hippocampus in food-caching chickadees

scientific article

Distinguishing nutrient-dependent plant driven bacterial colonization patterns in alfalfa

scientific article published on 15 December 2019

Does a history of population co‐occurrence predict plant performance, community productivity, or invasion resistance?

scientific article published in 2023

Ecological and Evolutionary Processes Drive the Origin and Maintenance of Imperfect Mimicry ⬇️

scientific article published on April 12, 2013

Embracing Colonizations: A New Paradigm for Species Association Dynamics.

scientific article published on 4 November 2017

Extreme heterogeneity of population response to climatic variation and the limits of prediction

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Family-Level Divergences in the Stinging Wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata), with Correlations to Angiosperm Diversification

scholarly article by Joseph S. Wilson et al published 10 June 2012 in Evolutionary Biology

Genomic evidence of genetic variation with pleiotropic effects on caterpillar fitness and plant traits in a model legume

article

Genomic evidence of genetic variation with pleiotropic effects on caterpillar fitness and plant traits in a model legume

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Genomic regions with a history of divergent selection affect fitness of hybrids between two butterfly species

scientific article

Geographically multifarious phenotypic divergence during speciation

scientific article published on 4 February 2013

Geological barriers and restricted gene flow in the holarctic skipper Hesperia comma (Hesperiidae).

scientific article published on November 2004

Global weather and local butterflies: variable responses to a large-scale climate pattern along an elevational gradient

scientific article published on November 2015

Growth, Root Formation, and Nutrient Value of Triticale Plants Fertilized with Biosolids ⬇️

scientific article published on April 19, 2012

Homoploid hybrid speciation in an extreme habitat

scientific article published on 30 November 2006

Host conservatism, geography, and elevation in the evolution of a Neotropical moth radiation

scientific article published on 21 October 2017

Host conservatism, host shifts and diversification across three trophic levels in two Neotropical forests

scientific article published on 23 January 2012

Host plant-dependent effects of microbes and phytochemistry on the insect immune response

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Host range evolution is not driven by the optimization of larval performance: the case of Lycaeides melissa (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and the colonization of alfalfa.

scientific article published on 7 March 2009

Hybrid speciation and independent evolution in lineages of alpine butterflies.

scientific article

Identification of source‐sink dynamics in mountain lions of the Great Basin ⬇️

scientific article published on August 30, 2012

Identifying units for conservation using molecular systematics: the cautionary tale of the Karner blue butterfly

scientific article

Impact of individual movement and changing resource availability on male–female encounter rates in an herbivorous insect

article by Mark D. Preston et al published December 2015 in Ecological Complexity

In Search of an Honest Butterfly: Sexually Selected Wing Coloration and Reproductive Traits From Wild Populations of the Cabbage White Butterfly

scientific article published in 2021

Increased resistance to generalist herbivores in invasive populations of the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

scientific article published in 2005

Increasing neonicotinoid use and the declining butterfly fauna of lowland California

scientific article

Independent inheritance of preference and performance in hybrids between host races of Mitoura butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).

scientific article published on May 2005

Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts

scientific article published on 12 January 2021

Insects and recent climate change

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars

scientific article (publication date: October 2016)

Larval Performance in the Context of Ecological Diversification and Speciation inLycaeidesButterflies

article by Cynthia F. Scholl et al published 2012 in International Journal of Ecology

Loss of dominant caterpillar genera in a protected tropical forest

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Midpoint attractors and species richness: Modelling the interaction between environmental drivers and geometric constraints

scientific article

Missing the bigger picture: Why insect monitoring programs are limited in their ability to document the effects of habitat loss

scientific article published in 2023

Morphological outcomes of gynandromorphism in Lycaeides butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).

scientific article published on 5 April 2015

North American velvet ants form one of the world's largest known Müllerian mimicry complexes

scientific article published in August 2015

Permutation tests for analyzing cospeciation in multiple phylogenies: applications in tri-trophic ecology ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2013

Phytochemical diversity drives plant-insect community diversity

scientific article published on 17 August 2015

Population genetic structure and its implications for adaptive variation in memory and the hippocampus on a continental scale in food‐caching black‐capped chickadees ⬇️

scientific article published on August 7, 2012

Predicting patch occupancy reveals the complexity of host range expansion

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Quantifying diet breadth through ordination of host association

scientific article

Rarity does not limit genetic variation or preclude subpopulation structure in the geographically restricted desert forb Astragalus lentiginosus var. piscinensis

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Recent colonization and radiation of North American Lycaeides (Plebejus) inferred from mtDNA.

scientific article published on May 2008

Recent hybrids recapitulate ancient hybrid outcomes

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Repeated evolution in overlapping mimicry rings among North American velvet ants.

scientific article published on January 2012

Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect-plant interactions

scientific article published on May 2012

Secondary contact between Lycaeides idas and L. melissa in the Rocky Mountains: extensive admixture and a patchy hybrid zone.

scientific article published on August 2010

Species with more volatile population dynamics are differentially impacted by weather

scientific article

Specificity, rank preference, and the colonization of a non-native host plant by the Melissa blue butterfly ⬇️

scientific article published on October 4, 2012

Strong patterns of intraspecific variation and local adaptation in Great Basin plants revealed through a review of 75 years of experiments.

scientific article

Synchronous population dynamics in California butterflies explained by climatic forcing

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

The Lives of Lepidopterists

book

The Many Dimensions of Diet Breadth: Phytochemical, Genetic, Behavioral, and Physiological Perspectives on the Interaction between a Native Herbivore and an Exotic Host ⬇️

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

The ecology of individuals: incidence and implications of individual specialization

scientific article published on 11 December 2002

The evolution of novel host use is unlikely to be constrained by trade-offs or a lack of genetic variation

scientific article published on June 2015

The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

scientific article

The predictability of genomic changes underlying a recent host shift in Melissa blue butterflies.

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

The race is not to the swift: Long-term data reveal pervasive declines in California's low-elevation butterfly fauna ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Thistledown velvet ants in the Desert Mimicry Ring and the evolution of white coloration: Müllerian mimicry, camouflage and thermal ecology

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

Two new species of the hyperdiverse geometrid moth genus Eois (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Ecuador, with descriptions of early stages

scientific article published in 2024

Understanding a migratory species in a changing world: climatic effects and demographic declines in the western monarch revealed by four decades of intensive monitoring.

scientific article

Use of an exotic host plant affects mate choice in an insect herbivore

scientific article

Use of exotic hosts by Lepidoptera: widespread species colonize more novel hosts ⬇️

scientific article published on April 22, 2011

Vertical differentiation in tropical forest butterflies: a novel mechanism generating insect diversity?

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Vertical stratification of the foliar fungal community in the world's tallest trees

scientific article

Widespread mito-nuclear discordance with evidence for introgressive hybridization and selective sweeps in Lycaeides

scientific article published on December 2008

Wolbachia infection and Lepidoptera of conservation concern

scientific article

List of works by Matthew L. Forister

A Neutral Model for the Evolution of Diet Breadth

A complete record from colonization to extinction reveals density dependence and the importance of winter conditions for a population of the silvery blue, Glaucopsyche lygdamus

A hierarchical bayesian approach to ecological count data: a flexible tool for ecologists

A hierarchical perspective on the diversity of butterfly species' responses to weather in the Sierra Nevada Mountains

A nonlinear relationship between genetic diversity and productivity in a polyphagous seed beetle

Additive genetic effects in interacting species jointly determine the outcome of caterpillar herbivory

Admixture and the organization of genetic diversity in a butterfly species complex revealed through common and rare genetic variants

After 60 years, an answer to the question: what is the Karner blue butterfly?

Ant association facilitates the evolution of diet breadth in a lycaenid butterfly.

Anthropogenic islands in the arid West: comparing the richness and diversity of insect communities in cultivated fields and neighboring wildlands

Bayesian analysis of molecular variance in pyrosequences quantifies population genetic structure across the genome of Lycaeides butterflies

Caterpillars on a phytochemical landscape: The case of alfalfa and the Melissa blue butterfly

Challenges and advances in the study of latitudinal gradients in multitrophic interactions, with a focus on consumer specialization

Compounded effects of climate change and habitat alteration shift patterns of butterfly diversity

Contribution of urban expansion and a changing climate to decline of a butterfly fauna

Differential hippocampal gene expression is associated with climate-related natural variation in memory and the hippocampus in food-caching chickadees

Distinguishing nutrient-dependent plant driven bacterial colonization patterns in alfalfa

Does a history of population co‐occurrence predict plant performance, community productivity, or invasion resistance?

Ecological and Evolutionary Processes Drive the Origin and Maintenance of Imperfect Mimicry ⬇️

Embracing Colonizations: A New Paradigm for Species Association Dynamics.

Extreme heterogeneity of population response to climatic variation and the limits of prediction

Family-Level Divergences in the Stinging Wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata), with Correlations to Angiosperm Diversification

Genomic evidence of genetic variation with pleiotropic effects on caterpillar fitness and plant traits in a model legume

Genomic evidence of genetic variation with pleiotropic effects on caterpillar fitness and plant traits in a model legume

Genomic regions with a history of divergent selection affect fitness of hybrids between two butterfly species

Geographically multifarious phenotypic divergence during speciation

Geological barriers and restricted gene flow in the holarctic skipper Hesperia comma (Hesperiidae).

Global weather and local butterflies: variable responses to a large-scale climate pattern along an elevational gradient

Growth, Root Formation, and Nutrient Value of Triticale Plants Fertilized with Biosolids ⬇️

Homoploid hybrid speciation in an extreme habitat

Host conservatism, geography, and elevation in the evolution of a Neotropical moth radiation

Host conservatism, host shifts and diversification across three trophic levels in two Neotropical forests

Host plant-dependent effects of microbes and phytochemistry on the insect immune response

Host range evolution is not driven by the optimization of larval performance: the case of Lycaeides melissa (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) and the colonization of alfalfa.

Hybrid speciation and independent evolution in lineages of alpine butterflies.

Identification of source‐sink dynamics in mountain lions of the Great Basin ⬇️

Identifying units for conservation using molecular systematics: the cautionary tale of the Karner blue butterfly

Impact of individual movement and changing resource availability on male–female encounter rates in an herbivorous insect

In Search of an Honest Butterfly: Sexually Selected Wing Coloration and Reproductive Traits From Wild Populations of the Cabbage White Butterfly

Increased resistance to generalist herbivores in invasive populations of the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

Increasing neonicotinoid use and the declining butterfly fauna of lowland California

Independent inheritance of preference and performance in hybrids between host races of Mitoura butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).

Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts

Insects and recent climate change

International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

Intraspecific phytochemical variation shapes community and population structure for specialist caterpillars

Larval Performance in the Context of Ecological Diversification and Speciation inLycaeidesButterflies

Loss of dominant caterpillar genera in a protected tropical forest

Midpoint attractors and species richness: Modelling the interaction between environmental drivers and geometric constraints

Missing the bigger picture: Why insect monitoring programs are limited in their ability to document the effects of habitat loss

Morphological outcomes of gynandromorphism in Lycaeides butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).

North American velvet ants form one of the world's largest known Müllerian mimicry complexes

Permutation tests for analyzing cospeciation in multiple phylogenies: applications in tri-trophic ecology ⬇️

Phytochemical diversity drives plant-insect community diversity

Population genetic structure and its implications for adaptive variation in memory and the hippocampus on a continental scale in food‐caching black‐capped chickadees ⬇️

Predicting patch occupancy reveals the complexity of host range expansion

Quantifying diet breadth through ordination of host association

Rarity does not limit genetic variation or preclude subpopulation structure in the geographically restricted desert forb Astragalus lentiginosus var. piscinensis

Recent colonization and radiation of North American Lycaeides (Plebejus) inferred from mtDNA.

Recent hybrids recapitulate ancient hybrid outcomes

Repeated evolution in overlapping mimicry rings among North American velvet ants.

Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect-plant interactions

Secondary contact between Lycaeides idas and L. melissa in the Rocky Mountains: extensive admixture and a patchy hybrid zone.

Species with more volatile population dynamics are differentially impacted by weather

Specificity, rank preference, and the colonization of a non-native host plant by the Melissa blue butterfly ⬇️

Strong patterns of intraspecific variation and local adaptation in Great Basin plants revealed through a review of 75 years of experiments.

Synchronous population dynamics in California butterflies explained by climatic forcing

The Lives of Lepidopterists

The Many Dimensions of Diet Breadth: Phytochemical, Genetic, Behavioral, and Physiological Perspectives on the Interaction between a Native Herbivore and an Exotic Host ⬇️

The ecology of individuals: incidence and implications of individual specialization

The evolution of novel host use is unlikely to be constrained by trade-offs or a lack of genetic variation

The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

The predictability of genomic changes underlying a recent host shift in Melissa blue butterflies.

The race is not to the swift: Long-term data reveal pervasive declines in California's low-elevation butterfly fauna ⬇️

Thistledown velvet ants in the Desert Mimicry Ring and the evolution of white coloration: Müllerian mimicry, camouflage and thermal ecology

Two new species of the hyperdiverse geometrid moth genus Eois (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Ecuador, with descriptions of early stages

Understanding a migratory species in a changing world: climatic effects and demographic declines in the western monarch revealed by four decades of intensive monitoring.

Use of an exotic host plant affects mate choice in an insect herbivore

Use of exotic hosts by Lepidoptera: widespread species colonize more novel hosts ⬇️