Selected Publications
Books
Boggs, C.L., Watt, W.B. and Ehrlich, P.R., eds., Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight. University of Chicago Press.
Journal articles, published or in press:
Boggs, C.L. and Freeman, K.D. 2005. Larval food limitation in butterflies: effects on adult resource allocation and fitness. Oecologia in press.
O'Brien, D.M., C.L. Boggs, C.L. and Fogel, M.L.. 2005. The amino acids used in reproduction by butterflies: a comparative study of dietary sources using compound specific stable isotope analysis. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology in press.
Stjernholm, F., Karlsson, B. and Boggs, C.L. 2005. Flight muscle breakdown: a possible route to increased reproductive potential in butterflies? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society in press.
Ellers, J., and Boggs, C.L. 2004a. Functional ecological implications of intraspecific differences in wing melanization in Colias butterflies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 82:79-87. (pdf).
O'Brien, D.M, C.L. Boggs and M.L. Fogel. 2004b. Making eggs from nectar: Connections between butterfly life history and the importance of nectar carbon in reproduction. Oikos 105:279-291. (pdf).
Ellers, J., and Boggs, C.L. 2004c. Evolutionary genetics of dorsal wing color in Colias butterflies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17:752-758. (pdf).
Fischer, K., O'Brien, D.M., and Boggs, C.L. 2004d. Allocation of larval and adult resources to reproduction in a fruit-feeding butterfly. Functional Ecology 18:656-663. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L., and Dau, B. 2004e. Resource specialization in puddling Lepidoptera. Environmental Entomology 33:1020-1024. (pdf).
Ellers, J., and Boggs, C.L. 2003a. The evolution of wing color: Male mate choice opposes adaptive wing color divergence in Colias butterflies. Evolution 57:1100-1106. (pdf).
Hellmann, J.J., Weiss, S.B., McLaughlin, J.H., Boggs, C.L., Ehrlich, P.R., Launer, A.E., and Murphy, D.D. 2003b. Do Hypotheses from short-term studies hold in the long-term?. Ecological Entomology 28:74-84. (pdf).
Horner-Devine, M.C., Daily, G.C., Ehrlich, P.R. and Boggs, C.L. 2003c. Countryside biogeography of tropical butterflies. Conservation Biology 17:168-177. (pdf).
O'Brien, D.M, C.L. Boggs and M.L. Fogel. 2003d. Pollen feeding in the butterfly Heliconius charitonia: isotopic evidence for essential amino acid transfer from pollen to eggs. Proceedings of the Royal Society London 270:2631-2636. (pdf).
O'Brien, D.M., Fogel, M.L., and Boggs, C.L. 2002a. Renewable and non-renewable resources: The role of amino acid turnover in allocation to reproduction in Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99:4413-4418. (pdf).
McLaughlin, J.F., Hellmann, J., Boggs, C.L. and Ehrlich, P.R. 2002b. Climate change hastens population extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99: 6070-6074. (pdf).
Ellers, J. and Boggs, C.L. 2002c. Evolution of wing color in Colias butterflies: heritability, sex-linkage, and population divergence. Evolution 56:836-840. (pdf).
Fleishman, E., Ray, C., Sjögren-Gulve, P., Boggs, C.L., and Murphy, D.D. 2002d. Assessing the relative roles of patch quality, area, and isolation in predicting metapopulation dynamics. Conservation Biology 16:706-716. (pdf).
McLaughlin, J.F., Hellmann, J., Boggs, C.L. and Ehrlich, P.R. 2002e. The route to extinction: population dynamics of a threatened butterfly. Oecologia 132:538-548. (pdf).
Heal, G., Daily, G.C., Ehrlich, P.R., Salzman, J., Boggs, C.L., Hellmann, J.J., Hughes, J.B., Kremen, C. and Ricketts, T.H. 2001. Protecting natural capital: Ecosystem service districts. Stanford Environmental Law Journal 20:333-364. (pdf).
Fleishman, E., Launer, A.E., Weiss, S.B., Reed, J.M., Boggs, C.L., Murphy, D.D., and Ehrlich, P.R. 1997 (2000). Effects of microclimate and oviposition timing on prediapause larval survival of the Bay checkerspot butterfly, Euphydryas editha bayensis. Journal of Research on Lepidoptera 36:31-44. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1997a. Reproductive allocation from reserves and income in butterfly species with differing adult diets. Ecology 78:181-191. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1997b. Dynamics of reproductive allocation from juvenile and adult feeding: radiotracer studies. Ecology 78:192-202. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. and Murphy, D.D. 1997c. Community composition in mountain ecosystems: climatic determinants of montane butterfly distributions. Global Ecology & Biogeography Letters 6:39-48. (pdf).
Sculley, C.E. and Boggs, C.L. 1996a. Mating systems and sexual division of foraging effort affect puddling behavior by butterflies. Ecological Entomology 21:193-197. (pdf).
Launer, A.E., Murphy, D.D., Boggs, C.L., Baughman, J., Weiss, S. and Ehrlich, P.R. 1993 (1996b). Puddling behavior by Bay checkerspot butterflies (Euphydryas editha bayensis). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 32:45-52. (pdf).
Cushman, J.H., Boggs, C.L., Weiss, S.B., Murphy, D.D., Harvey, A.W. and Ehrlich, P.R. 1994. Estimating female reproductive success of a threatened butterfly: Influence of emergence time and hostplant phenology. Oecologia 99:194-200. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. and Ross, C.L. 1993. The effect of adult food limitation on life history traits in Speyeria mormonia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Ecology 74:433-441. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1992. Resource allocation: exploring connections between foraging and life history strategies. Functional Ecology 6:508-518. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. and Jackson, L.A. 1991. Mud puddling by butterflies is not a simple matter. Ecological Entomology 16:123-127. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1990. A general model of the role of male-donated nutrients in female insects' reproduction. American Naturalist 136:598-617. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1988. Rates of nectar feeding in butterflies: effects of sex, size, age and sugar concentration. Functional Ecology 2:289-295. (pdf).
Watt, W.B. and Boggs, C.L. 1987a. Allelic isozymes as probes of the evolution of metabolic organization. Isozymes 15:27-47. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1987b. Demography of the unsilvered morph of Speyeria mormonia (Nymphalidae) in Colorado. Journal of the Lepidopterist Society 41:94-97. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1987c. Within population variation in the demography of Speyeria mormonia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Holarctic Ecology 10:175-184. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. and Gilbert, L.E. 1987d. Spatial and temporal distribution of Lantana mites phoretic on Lepidoptera. Biotropica 19:301-305. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1986a. Reproductive strategies of female butterflies: Variation in and constraints on fecundity. Ecological Entomology 11:7-15. (pdf).
Springer, P. and Boggs, C.L. 1986b. Resource allocation to oocytes: heritable variation with altitude in Colias philodice eriphyle (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). American Naturalist 127:252-256. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1981a. Nutritional and life history determinants of resource allocation in holometabolous insects. American Naturalist 117:692-709. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L., Smiley, J.T., and Gilbert, L.E. 1981b. Patterns of pollen exploitation by Heliconius butterflies. Oecologia 48:284-289. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1981c. Selection pressures affecting male nutrient investment at mating in heliconiine butterflies. Evolution 35:931-940. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. and Watt, W.B. 1981d. Population structure of pierid butterflies IV. Genetic and physiological investment in offspring by male Colias. Oecologia 50:320-324. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. and Gilbert, L.E. 1979. Male contribution to egg production in butterflies: Evidence for transfer of nutrients at mating. Science 206:83-84. (pdf).
Dunlap-Pianka, H., Boggs, C.L., and Gilbert, L.E. 1977a. Ovarian dynamics in heliconiine butterflies: Programmed senescence versus eternal youth. Science 197:487-490. (pdf).
Allen, H.M., Boggs, C.L., Norris, E. and Doering, M. 1977b. Parental behavior of captive willow grouse Lagopus l. lagopus. Ornis Scandinavica 8:175-183. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L., Norris, E. and Steen, J.B. 1977c. Behavioral and physiological temperature regulation of young chicks of the willow grouse (Lagopus lagopus). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 58A:371-372. (pdf).
Myrberget, S., Norris*, C. and Norris, E. 1975a. Grit in Norwegian Lagopus spp. Norwegian
Journal of Zoology 23:205-212. (pdf).
Norris, E., Norris*, C. and Steen, J.B. 1975b. Regulation and grinding ability of grit in the gizzard of Norwegian willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus). Poultry Science 54:1839-1843. (pdf).
* former name of C.L. Boggs
Book Chapters:
Published or in press:
Boggs, C.L. and Nieminen, M. 2004a. Checkerspot reproductive biology. In Ehrlich, P.R. and Hanksi, I., eds., On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for Population Biology. Oxford University Press. pp. 92-111.
Sacchari, I., Boggs, C.L., Hanski, I. and Ehrlich, P.R. 2004b. Genetics of checkerspot populations. In Ehrlich, P.R. and Hanksi, I., eds., On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for Population Biology. Oxford University Press. pp. 199-218.
Wahlberg, N., Ehrlich, P.R., Boggs, C.L. and Hanski, I. 2004c. Bay checkerspot and Glanville fritillary compared with other species. In Ehrlich, P.R. and Hanksi, I., eds., On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for Population Biology. Oxford University Press. pp. 219-244.
Hanski, I., Hellmann, J., Boggs, C.L. and McLaughlin, J. 2004d. Checkerspots as model systems in population ecology. In Ehrlich, P.R. and Hanksi, I., eds., On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for Population Biology. Oxford University Press. pp. 245-263.
Hanski, I., Ehrlich, P.R., Nieminen, M., Murphy, D.D., Hellmann, J., Boggs, C.L., and McLaughlin, J. 2004e. Checkerspots and conservation biology. In Ehrlich, P.R. and Hanksi, I., eds., On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for Population Biology. Oxford University Press. pp. 264-287.
Ehrlich, P.R., Hanski, I. and Boggs, C.L. 2004f. What have we learned? In Ehrlich, P.R. and Hanksi, I., eds., On the Wings of Checkerspots: A Model System for Population Biology. Oxford University Press. pp. 288-300.
Boggs, C.L. 2003a. Environmental variation, life histories, and allocation. In Boggs, C.L., Watt, W.B. and Ehrlich, P.R., eds., Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight. University of Chicago Press. pp. 185-206. (pdf).
Watt, W.B. and Boggs, C.L. 2003b. Butterflies as model systems in ecology and evolution: Present and future. In Boggs, C.L., Watt, W.B. and Ehrlich, P.R., eds., Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight. University of Chicago Press. pp. 603-613. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 2001. Species and Speciation. In Smelser, N. and Baltes, P., eds., International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier, Oxford. pp. 14855-14861. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. and Roughgarden, J. 1999a. Biodiversity: Result of speciation and extinction. in Ernst, W.G., ed., Earth Systems: Processes and Issues. Cambridge Univ. Press. pp. 255-266.
Boggs, C.L. and Roughgarden, J. 1999b. Evolution: Adaptation and environmental change. in Ernst, W.G., ed., Earth Systems: Processes and Issues. Cambridge Univ. Press. pp. 267-277.
Boggs, C.L. 1997a. Resource allocation in variable environments: Comparing insects and plants. in Bazzaz, F. & J. Grace, eds., Plant Resource Allocation. Academic Press. pp. 73-92. (pdf).
Merenlender, A.M., Boggs, C.L. and Murphy, D.D. 1997b. The role of insects in conservation management. in Chiariello, N. and Dasmond, R., eds., Proceedings of the Symposium on Biodiversity of the Central California Coast. pp. 105-112. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1995. Male nuptial gifts: Phenotypic consequences and evolutionary implications. in Leather, S.R. & J. Hardie, eds., Insect Reproduction. CRC Press. pp. 215-242. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1994. The role of resource allocation in understanding reproductive patterns. in Leather, S.R. A.D. Watt, N.I. Mills & K.E.A. Walters, eds, Individual, populations and patterns in ecology. Intercept Press, United Kingdom. pp. 25-33. (pdf).
Boggs, C.L. 1987. Ecology of nectar and pollen feeding in Lepidoptera. in: Slansky, Jr., F. and Rodriguez, J.G. (eds), Nutritional ecology of insects, mites and spiders and related Invertebrates. John Wiley & Sons, New York. pp. 369-391. (pdf).
