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67
Citations
11353
World Ranking
1644
National Ranking
602

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1960 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lincoln P. Brower was affiliated with Sweet Briar College in the United States and focused on research within agricultural and biological sciences. Their work concentrated on topics related to plant and animal studies, insect pheromone research and control, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, archaeology and natural history, insect and pesticide research, and animal behavior and reproduction.

The main fields of study in which Brower published included:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields of particular interest were:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science
  • Genetics
  • Anthropology

Brower contributed to knowledge through publications in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent published papers include:

  • The price of defence: toxins, visual signals and oxidative state in an aposematic butterfly, 2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The price of defence: toxins, visual signals and oxidative state in an aposematic butterfly, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors working with Brower were:

  • Jonathan D. Blount
  • Hannah M. Rowland
  • Christopher Mitchell
  • Michael P. Speed
  • Graeme D. Ruxton

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Brower was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1960.

Best Publications

  • Decline of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico: is the migratory phenomenon at risk?

    Lincoln P. Brower;Orley R. Taylor;Ernest H. Williams;Daniel A. Slayback

  • Understanding and misunderstanding the migration of the monarch butterfly (Nymphalidae) in North America: 1857-1995

    Lincoln P. Brower

  • Plant poisons in a terrestrial food chain.

    L P Brower;J van Brower;J M Corvino

  • Ecological Chemistry and the Palatability Spectrum

    Lincoln P. Brower;William N. Ryerson;Lorna L. Coppinger;Susan C. Glazier

  • Associations between host migration and the prevalence of a protozoan parasite in natural populations of adult monarch butterflies

    Sonia M. Altizer;Karen S. Oberhauser;Lincoln P. Brower

  • Localization of heart poisons in the monarch butterfly.

    Lincoln P. Brower;Susan C. Glazier

  • Birds, butterflies, and plant poisons: A study in ecological chemistry

    Lincoln P. Brower;Jane Van Zandt Brower

  • Monarch butterfly orientation: missing pieces of a magnificent puzzle

    Lincoln P. Brower

  • Mortality of the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus L.): Avian Predation at Five Overwintering Sites in Mexico.

    William H. Calvert;Lee E. Hedrick;Lincoln P. Brower

  • Animal Migrations: Endangered Phenomena

    Lincoln P. Brower;Stephen B. Malcolm

  • Detrimental effects of latex and cardiac glycosides on survival and growth of first‐instar monarch butterfly larvae Danaus plexippus feeding on the sandhill milkweed Asclepias humistrata

    Myron P. Zalucki;Lincoln P. Brower;Alfonso Alonso-M

  • Evolutionary and ecological implications of cardenolide sequestration in the monarch butterfly

    S. B. Malcolm;L. P. Brower

  • Fueling the fall migration of the monarch butterfly

    Lincoln P. Brower;Linda S. Fink;Peter Walford

  • Variation in Cardiac Glycoside Content of Monarch Butterflies from Natural Populations in Eastern North America

    Lincoln P. Brower;Peter B. McEvoy;Kenneth L. Williamson;Maureen A. Flannery

  • Experimental Studies of Mimicry. 5. The Reactions of Toads (Bufo terrestris) to Bumblebees (Bombus americanorum) and Their Robberfly Mimics (Mallophora bomboides), with a Discussion of Aggressive Mimicry

    Lincoln P. Brower;Jane Van Zandt Brower;Peter W. Westcott

  • Quantitative changes in forest quality in a principal overwintering area of the Monarch Butterfly in Mexico, 1971-1999

    Lincoln P. Brower;Guillermo Castilleja;Armando Peralta;Jose Lopez‐Garcia

  • Milkweed Cardenolides and Their Comparative Processing by Monarch Butterflies ( Danaus plexippus L.)

    C. N. Roeske;J. N. Seiber;L. P. Brower;C. M. Moffitt

  • Birds can overcome the cardenolide defence of monarch butterflies in Mexico

    Linda S. Fink;Linda S. Fink;Lincoln P. Brower

  • Oviposition by Danaus plexippus in relation to cardenolide content of three Asclepias species in the southeastern U.S.A.

    M. P. Zalucki;L. P. Brower;S. B. Malcolm

  • The viceroy butterfly is not a batesian mimic

    David B. Ritland;Lincoln P. Brower

  • Taxonomists Glossary of Genitalia in Insects

    Lincoln P. Brower

Frequent Co-Authors

Myron P. Zalucki
Myron P. Zalucki University of Queensland
Karen S. Oberhauser
Karen S. Oberhauser University of Wisconsin–Madison
Orley R. Taylor
Orley R. Taylor University of Kansas
Sonia Altizer
Sonia Altizer University of Georgia
Andrew K. Davis
Andrew K. Davis University of Georgia
Leonard I. Wassenaar
Leonard I. Wassenaar University of Ottawa
Diane M. Debinski
Diane M. Debinski Montana State University
John Alcock
John Alcock Arizona State University
Ken Oyama
Ken Oyama National Autonomous University of Mexico
Alfonso Alonso
Alfonso Alonso Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

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