The decline of the iconic monarch butterfly in North America has motivated research on the impacts of land use and land cover (LULC) change and climate variability on monarch habitat and population dynamics. We investigated spring and fall trends in LULC, milkweed and nectar resources over a 20-year period, and ~30 years of climate variables in Mexico and Texas, a key region supporting spring and fall migration during monarchs annual life cycle. We estimated a 2.9% decline in milkweed in Texas, but little to no change in Mexico. Fall and spring nectar resources declined <1% in both countries. Vegetation greenness increased in both the fall and spring in Mexico while the other climate variables, for both countries,...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Energy Resources,
Forestry,
Land Use Change,
Mexico,
Remote Sensing, All tags...
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
climate change,
land cover change,
migratory species,
milkweed resources,
monarch butterfly,
nectar resources, Fewer tags
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