Alexander M. Shephard
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University
Publications
23
Citations
388
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
24
Publishing since 2003
Alexander M. Shephard studies how insects, especially monarch butterflies, respond to environmental changes caused by human activity. Much of the work examines how substances found along roadsides—such as salt (sodium), zinc, and other elements—affect butterfly survival, development, and behavior, along with broader questions about how organisms adjust their life histories to novel or stressful conditions. Additional studies explore learning and reproduction in crickets and the physiology of stress responses.
Publication activity has been steady with a recent increase, peaking in 2024.
Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026
- The potential of roadside verges as insect habitat: Road salt has few effects on monarch butterfly performance and migration
Conservation Science and Practice · 2024
- Butterfly species vary in sex‐specific sodium accumulation from larval diets
Ecological Entomology · 2024
- Supplementary data for Shephard et al. 2023 from Metabolic stress as a driver of life-history plasticity: flight promotes longevity and antioxidant production in monarch butterflies
Figshare · 2023
- Anthropogenic sodium influences butterfly responses to nitrogen-enriched resources: implications for the nitrogen limitation hypothesis
Oecologia · 2023
- Metabolic stress as a driver of life-history plasticity: flight promotes longevity and antioxidant production in monarch butterflies
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2023
- Anthropogenic Zinc Exposure Increases Mortality and Antioxidant Gene Expression in Monarch Butterflies with Low Access to Dietary Macronutrients
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry · 2022
- Traffic patterns, more than adjacent land use, influence element content of roadside forbs for insect pollinators
Ecological Solutions and Evidence · 2022
- Monarch caterpillars are robust to combined exposure to the roadside micronutrients sodium and zinc
Conservation Physiology · 2021
- Evaluating costs of heavy metal tolerance in a widely distributed, invasive butterfly
Evolutionary Applications · 2021
- Assessing zinc tolerance in two butterfly species: consequences for conservation in polluted environments
Insect Conservation and Diversity · 2020
- Butterflies do not alter oviposition or larval foraging in response to anthropogenic increases in sodium
Animal Behaviour · 2019
- Conspecific mortality cues mediate associative learning in crickets, Acheta domesticus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
Journal of Orthoptera Research · 2018
- Hormetic Effects of Early Juvenile Radiation Exposure on Adult Reproduction and Offspring Performance in the Cricket ( <i>Acheta domesticus</i> )
Dose-Response · 2018
- Mechanisms of Plastic Rescue in Novel Environments
Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2018
- Reverse Engineering the Febrile System
The Quarterly Review of Biology · 2016
- Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics×1
- Animal Behaviour×1
- Ecological Solutions and Evidence×1
- The Quarterly Review of Biology×1
- Evolutionary Applications×1
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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.
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