Camille Parmesan, Selected Publications
Global Change
Parmesan, C, N Ryrholm, C Stefanescu, JK Hill, CD Thomas, H Descimon, B Huntley, L Kaila, J Kullberg, T Tammaru, J Tennent, JA Thomas, M Warren (1999). Poleward shift of butterfly species’ ranges associated with regional warming. Nature 399:579-583. (pdf file)
Parmesan C. (1996) Climate and species range. Nature 382:765-766.
Easterling, D.R., G.A. Meehl, C. Parmesan, S. Chagnon, T. Karl, L. Mearns (2000). Climate extremes: observations, modeling, and impacts. Science 289: 2068-2074. (pdf file)
Parmesan, C., T.L. Root & M. Willig. Impacts of extreme weather and climate on terrestrial biota. (2000) Bull. American Meteorological Soc. 81: 443-450. (pdf file)
(part of 5 paper series: Climatic extremes and climate change: the trends, their impacts on society and ecosystems, and how to improve linkages among scientists and the policy community, T.R. Karl, J. Meehl and S. Chagnon, eds.).
Insect/Plant interactions
Parmesan C. (2000) Unexpected density-dependent effects of herbivory in a wild population of the annual Collinsia torreyi. Journal of Ecology 88:392-400. (pdf file)
Parmesan C, MC Singer, I Harris. (1995) Absence of adaptive learning from the oviposition foraging behaviour of a checkerspot butterfly. Animal Behaviour 50: 161-175. (pdf file)
Singer MC and C Parmesan (1993) Sources of variation in patterns of plant-insect association. Nature 361:251-253
Parmesan C. (1991) Evidence against plant "apparency" as a constraint on evolution of insect search efficiency (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). J. Insect Behav. 4(4):417-430
Policy
Lead Author: Impacts, Adaptations and Vulnerabilities, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report (WG II), Cambridge Univ. Press
Book Chapters
Parmesan, C. (in press) Detection of range shifts: general methodological issues and case studies using butterflies. In: Fingerprints of Climate Change. Ed. by G-R Walther, C.A. Burga and P.J. Edwards. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers.
Parmesan, C. (in press) Butterflies as bio-indicators of climate change impacts. In: Evolution and Ecology Taking Flight: Butterflies as Model Systems. Ed. by C.L Boggs, W.B.Watt, and P.R., Ehrlich. University of Chicago Press.
Parmesan, C. (2001) Coping with modern times? Insect movement and climate change. In: Insect Movement: Mechanisms and Consequences. Ed. By I. Woiwod, D.R. Reynolds and C.D. Thomas. CAB International, Wallingford.