Claim · #6495208
Danaus plexippus · herbivory · Asclepias spp.
herbivory · effect: context_dependent
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“drought reduces milkweed availability, disrupting monarch breeding”
- Authors
- Halsch C.A., Shapiro A.M., Fordyce J.A., Nice C.C., Thorne J.H., Waetjen D.P., Forister M.L.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Drought-driven milkweed declines and altered monarch breeding/migration phenology are documented (Pleasants & Oberhauser, Saunders 2018); credible interaction.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Asclepias availability and quality drive monarch reproductive success; drought and precipitation-shift impacts are well-documented in monarch ecology literature.”
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