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Code and data for 'Confirmation of a decline in the summer population of the monarch butterfly due to habitat loss'
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This code describes graphical and analytical comparisons between monarch butterfly survey data collected during summer breeding, fall migration, and winter. -
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Eastern migratory monarch butterfly population estimates and associated early warning signals (2006-2022)
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The long decline of the eastern migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) appears to have abated in recent years and the population now persists... -
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Data for Conservation Genetics and Genomics of the Narrowly Endemic Island Marble Butterfly: Assessing Population Structure, Facilitating Supportive Breeding, and Identifying Adaptive Potential
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This study used DNA extracted from island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus) meconium, exuviae, and natural mortalities to generate microsatellite loci,... -
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INHABIT species potential distribution across the contiguous United States (ver. 4.0, June 2024)
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This is a dataset containing the potential distribution of 259 invasive terrestrial plant species. We developed habitat suitability models for invasive plant species... -
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Clothianidin concentrations in milkweed leaves that leads to prepupal mortality in monarch butterflies
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A set of experiments was conducted to determine the dietary clothianidin exposures that cause prepupal mortality in the absence of other adverse effects. Monarch... -
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Effects of warming on development rates on Karner Blue Butterfly laboratory data (2011-2012)
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The dataset is associated with a project that examines effects of climate change on the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) by... -
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Monarch Butterfly Relevant Land Cover Data Set for the Conterminous United States of America
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The USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center developed a Monarch Butterfly Relevant Land Cover data set covering the conterminous United States of America.... -
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Surveying butterfly populations of prairie restorations in South Louisiana
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In this study our objective was to establish baseline abundance numbers of butterflies and to evaluate a monitoring system that can be used by persons with relatively... -
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Data release for Quantifying ecosystem service flows at multiple scales across the range of a long-distance migratory species
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Migratory species provide ecosystem goods and services throughout their annual cycles, often over long distances. Designing effective conservation solutions for... -
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Data on Zerene silverspot butterfly and early blue violet responses to herbicide treatments from 2018-2019 greenhouse experiments
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Herbicide treatments were applied to Zerene silverspot (Speyeria = Argynnis zerene zerene) post-diapause larvae and early blue violets (Viola adunca), the larval host... -
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SNP data for Karner blue butterfly samples from across the species range
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This dataset contains sample information about the origin of the butterflies sequenced, and their corresponding SNP genotype data. These data were used to examine... -
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Samoan swallowtail, host plant and habitat, stand characteristics, 2013-2014
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Surveys for immature life stages of the Samoan swallowtail butterfly (Papilio godeffroyi) were conducted on 117 individually marked host trees (Micromelum minutum) in... -
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Monarch Threats Analysis
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Data are population size estimates for monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico as well as 76 potential stressors and 3 correlates. These stressors include... -
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Uptake and toxicity of clothianidin to monarch butterflies from milkweed consumption (ver. 2.0, January 2020)
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Recent concern for the adverse effects from neonicotinoid insecticides has centered on risk for insect pollinators in general and bees specifically. However, natural... -
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Butterfly community abundance and distribution along a gradient of woody vegetation density at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Hoosier Prairie Nature Preserve, and Tefft Savanna Nature Preserve, Indiana 1998-1999.
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The dataset consists of abundance information of butterfly species (61 species) collected at 25 sites in northwest Indiana in 1998 and 1999. Each site was surveyed 21... -
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Karner blue butterfly densities, resource densities, and resource use at Sandhill Wildlife Area, Wisconsin, 2016
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Insects with morphologically different life stages can face a time tradeoff between foraging and egg-laying behavior when larval and adult resources are spatially... -
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Pesticides in pollinator tissue collected from margins near agricultural fields in Conservation Areas of Missouri
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Wild bee and butterfly samples were collected from the margins of agricultural fields located on five Conservation Areas in Missouri. In 2016 and 2017, samples were... -
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Samoan swallowtail butterfly reproductive life history and parasitism, 2013-2014
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This data release includes metadata and tabular data documenting the reproductive demography of the Samoan swallowtail butterfly (Papilio godeffroyi), including rates... -
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Marine Arctic polygon distribution of Butterfly Sculpin (Hemilepidotus papilio) (Bean, 1880)
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Region(s) of distribution of Butterfly Sculpin (Hemilepidotus papilio) (Bean, 1880) in the Arctic as digitized for U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations... -
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Data release for Monarch Habitat as a Component of Multifunctional Landscape Restoration Using Continuous Riparian Buffers
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Stabilizing the eastern, migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) is expected to require substantial habitat restoration on agricultural land in...