Lincoln Brower

Lincoln Pierson Brower (born 1931) is an entomologist and ecologist, known for his work on monarch butterflies through six decades, including on their automimicry and conservation.[1][2][3] G. Pasteur called this Browerian mimicry, after Lincoln and his wife Jane Van Zandt Brower.[4]

Life

Brower has studied monarch butterflies for six decades.

Brower was born in New Jersey in 1931. At high school he met Jane Van Zandt. He was educated at Princeton University where he gained a BA in biology in 1953. He and Jane married and took their PhDs in zoology together at Yale University in 1957, his on speciation in the Papilio glaucus group of butterflies, hers doing the first ever controlled experiment on Batesian mimicry in butterflies. He spent two years at Oxford University, the first as a Fulbright scholar, in E. B. Ford's ecological genetics laboratory. He then lectured at Amherst College from 1958. In 1980 he became professor of zoology at the University of Florida. On retiring in 1997, he moved to Sweet Briar College as a research professor.[5][6]

He began studying the monarch butterfly while a postgraduate at Yale in 1954, and became a world expert on the species over six decades.[7][8] He has contributed to over 200 papers, combining research, public education about the monarch butterfly, and conservation work. He received the E. O. Wilson Award in 2016 for his work.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Brower, Lincoln Pierson; Cook, Laurence M.; Croze, Harvey J. (March 1967). "Predator Responses to Artificial Batesian Mimics Released in a Neotropical Environment". Evolution. 21 (1): 11. doi:10.2307/2406736.
  2. ↑ Brower, L. P. (1970). "Plant poisons in a terrestrial food chain and implications for mimicry theory". In Chambers, K. L. Biochemical Coevolution. Corvallis, Oregon, USA: Oregon State Univ. pp. 69–82.
  3. ↑ Brower, L. P.; Van Brower, J. V. Z.; Corvino, J. M. (1967). "Plant poisons in a terrestrial food chain". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 57 (4): 893–98. Bibcode:1967PNAS...57..893B. PMC 224631 Freely accessible. PMID 5231352. doi:10.1073/pnas.57.4.893.
  4. ↑ Pasteur, G. (1982). "A Classificatory Review of Mimicry Systems". Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 13: 169–199. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.13.110182.001125.
  5. ↑ Fink, Linda S.; Vane-Wright, R. I. (2007). "Lincoln Brower’s European Tour" (PDF). Antenna. 31 (4): 203–207. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "Lincoln P. Brower". Sweet Briar College. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "Lincoln Brower". Monarch Conservation. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  8. ↑ Maeckle, Monica (16 February 2015). "Q & A: Dr. Lincoln Brower talks Ethics, Endangered Species, Milkweed and Monarchs". Texas Butterfly Ranch. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  9. ↑ Curry, Tierra (30 November 2016). "Monarch Butterfly Expert Lincoln Brower to Be Honored Friday With E.O. Wilson Award: 4th Annual Award Presented for Lifetime of Monarch Study, Advocacy". Center for Biological Diversity.
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