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.