The Ries Lab of Butterfly InformaticsNaresh Neupane
Publications
2025
Edwards, C.B., Zipkin, E.F., Henry, E.H., Haddad, N.M., Forister, M.L., Burls, K.J., Campbell, S.P., Crone, E.E., Diffendorfer, J., Douglas, M.R., Drum, R.G., Fallon, C.E., Glassberg, J., Grames, E.M., Hatfield. R., Herschovich, S., Hoffman Black, S., Larsen, E.A., Leuenberger, W., Linders, M.J., Longcore, T., Marschalek, D.A., Michielini, J., Neupane, N., Ries, L., Shapiro, A.M., Swengel, A.B., Swengel, S.R., Taron, D.J., Van Deynze, B., Wiedmann, J., Thogmartin, W.E., and Schultz, C.B. 2025. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century. Science, 387(6738), pp.1090-1094.
2024
Neupane, N., E.A. Larsen, and L.Ries (2024). Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa include winners and losers under future climate. Invited paper at Current Opinion in Insect Science: 101159
Neupane, N., Goswami, R., Harrison, K., Oberhauser, K., Ries, L., & McCormick, C. (2024). Artificial intelligence correctly classifies developmental stages of monarch caterpillars enabling better conservation through the use of community science photographs. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 27039.
Neupane, Naresh, Elise A. Larsen, and Leslie Ries. "Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate." Current Opinion in Insect Science 62 (2024): 101159.
Shirey, V., N. Neupane, R. Guralnick, & L. Ries. (2024). Rising minimum temperatures contribute to 50 years of occupancy decline among cold‐adapted Arctic and boreal butterflies in North America. Global Change Biology, 30(2), e17205.
2023
Courter, JN, Z Liu, N Neupane, A Arab, J Siegrist (2023). Satellite-based environmental variables complement traditional variables in spatio-temporal models of purple martin migration. Wildlife Research
2022
Neupane, N., E. Zipkin, S. Saunders, and L. Ries. 2022. Grappling with uncertainty in ecological projections for the migratory monarch butterfly using tailored climate models. Ecosphere doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3874
Neupane, N., M. Peruzzi, A. Arab, S.J. Mayor, J.C. Withey, L. Ries, and A.O. Finley. (2022). A novel model to accurately predict continental-scale timing of forest green-up. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 108: 102747
2021
Mushegian, A., N. Neupane, Z. Batz, M. Mogi, N. Truno, T. Toma, I. Miyagi, L. Ries and P. Armbruster (2021). Letter: Ecological mechanism of climate-mediated selection in a rapidly evolving invasive species. Ecology Letters 24:698-707. doi: 10.1111/ele.13686
Neupane, N., Goldbloom-Helzner, A., & Arab, A. (2021). Spatio-temporal modeling for confirmed cases of lyme disease in Virginia. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 12(6), 101822.
Degroot, D., Anchukaitis, K., Bauch, M. ..., Neupane, N., Newfield, T, et al. Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change. Nature 591, 539–550 (2021).
Zylstra, Erin R., Leslie Ries, Naresh Neupane, Sarah P. Saunders, M. Isabel Ramírez, Eduardo Rendón-Salinas, Karen S. Oberhauser, Matthew T. Farr, and Elise F. Zipkin. "Changes in climate drive recent monarch butterfly dynamics." Nature Ecology & Evolution (2021): 1-12.
2019
Saunders, S.P., L. Ries, N. Neupane, M. I. Ramirez, E.Garcia-Serrano, E. Rendon-Salinas, E.F. Zipkin. 2019. Multi-scale seasonal factors drive the size of winter monarch colonies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 201805114
2018
Ries, L., N. Neupane, K. A. Baum, E. F. Zipkin. (2018). Flying through hurricane central: impacts of hurricanes on migrants with a focus on monarch butterflies. Animal Migration 5(1): 94-103..