Arthur M. Shapiro
Distinguished Professor
amshapiro@ucdavis.edu
Evolution and Ecology
Office
6347 Storer Hall
752-2176
752-2225
Degrees:
1970
PhD
Cornell University
Entomology
1966
BA
University of Pennsylvania
Biology
Research Contribution to Society:
Basic and applied data on the biology and conservation of butterflies, including endangered or threatened taxa and the conservation and encouragement of the urban-suburban butterfly fauna, and the biology of naturalized exotics
Research Interests:
Evolution, ecology, phylogeny, and biogeography of the pierid butterflies. Evolution of seasonality. Insect-host plant interactions. Phenotypic plasticity and canalization. Biogeography of the Andean region and Patagonia. History and philosophy of biology, especially the creation-evolution question.
Awards:
Fellow, CA Academy of Sciences
Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, UCD
Outstanding Adviser Award, UCD
Fellow, Davis Humanities Institute
Department and Center Affiliations:
Center for Population Biology
Professional Societies:
Fellow,AAAS; Fellow, Royal Entomological Society
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Population Biology
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
Grad. Group. Ecology, and Grad. Group Geography
Publications:
Last updated 7/19/2012
Gompert,Z., C.C.Nice, J.A.Fordyce, M.L.Forister and A.M.Shapiro.2006.
Identifying units for conservation using molecular taxonomy: the
cautionary tale of the Karner Blue butterfly. Molecular Ecology 15: 1759-
1768.
Gompert,Z., J.A. Fordyce, M.L.Forister, A.M. Shapiro and C.C. Nice. 2006. Homoploid hybrid speciation in an extreme habitat. Science 314: 1923-1925.
Oliver, J.C. and A.M. Shapiro. 2007. Genetic isolation and cryptic variation within the Lycaena xanthoides species-group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Molecular Ecology 16: 4308-4320.
Shapiro, A.M., M.L. Forister and J.A. Fordyce. 2007. Extreme high-altitude Asian and Andean Pierid butterflies are not each others' closest relatives. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 39: 137-142.
Shapiro, A.M. and T.D. Manolis. 2007. Field Guide to the Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions. California Natural History Guides, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. 346 pp.
Forister, M.L., C.C. Nice, J.A. Fordyce, Z. Gompert and A.M. Shapiro. 2008. Considering evolutionary processes in the use of single-locus genetic data for conservation, with examples from the Lepidoptera. Journal of Insect Conservation 12: 37-51.
Shapiro, A.M. 2009. The neo-riparian butterfly fauna of western Argentina. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 41: 24-30.
Shapiro, A.M. 2009. Revisiting the pre-European butterfly fauna of the Sacramento Valley, California. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 41: 31-39.
Forister, M.L., J.P.Jahner,K.L.Casner,J.S.Wilson and A.M. Shapiro. 2011. The race is not to the swift: long-term data reveal pervasive declines in California's low-elevation butterfly fauna. Ecology 92: 2222-2235.
O'Brien, J.M., J.H. Thorne, M.L.Forister and A.M.Shapiro.2011. Once-yearly sampling for the detection of trends in biodiversity: the case of Willow Slough, California. Biological Conservation 144: 2012-2019.
Forister,M.L.,J.A.Fordyce,A.C.McCall and A.M. Shapiro. 2011. A complete record from colonization to extinction reveals density-dependence and the importance of winter conditions for a population of Silvery Blues, Glaucopsyche lygdamus. Journal of Insect Science 11, article 130: 1-9.
Jahner,J.P.,M.M.Bonilla,K.J.Badik,A.M.Shapiro and M.L.Forister.2011. Use of exotic hosts by Lepidoptera: widespread species colonize more novel hosts. Evolution 65: 2719-2724.
Jahner,J.P.,A.M.Shapiro and M.L.Forister.2012. Drivers of hybridization in a 66-generation record of Colias butterflies. Evolution 66: 818-830.
Laboratory Personnel:
Shapiro
Heather Dwyer, Melissa Whitaker
Field Sites:
Andean region from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego; Patagonia; Western, eastern and boreal North America
Teaching Interests:
Ecology of tropical latitudes. Systematics. Biogeography. Evolution of ecological systems. One-time seminars on biotic responses to global change, philosophical issues in biology including postmodernism, structuralism and Marxism, phylogeography, the genetics and linguistics of the peopling of the Americas, post-Pleistocene range dynamics, and the role of host specialization in speciation of phyto
Courses:
EVE
138
Eco Trop Latitudes
EVE
141
Principles Systematics
EVE
147
Biogeography
EVE
149
Evol Ecol Syst
EVE
220
Species and Speciation
EVE
190
Undergraduate Seminar
I
PBG
296
Seminar in Geographical Ecology
III
Key Words:
butterfly, Pieridae, exotic species, weeds, urban ecology, California, plant communities, Sierra Nevada,Sacramento Valley, Andes, Patagonia, speciation, insect-plant interactions, hybridization, high-altitude adaptation, speciation