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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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Start Date
1994
End Date
2021

Citation

Thogmartin, W.E., Pleasants, J., Stenoien, C., Taylor, O., and Oberhauser, K., 2023, Code and data for 'Confirmation of a decline in the summer population of the monarch butterfly due to habitat loss': U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Y3DQ3P.

Summary

This code describes graphical and analytical comparisons between monarch butterfly survey data collected during summer breeding, fall migration, and winter.

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MonarchSurveyComparison.R 96.31 KB text/x-rsrc
MonarchSurveyData1994-2021.csv 1.5 KB text/csv

Purpose

The code was created to demonstrate that, when properly contextualized, monarch butterflies surveyed during summer do demonstrate a long-term decline in abundance.

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  • USGS Data Release Products
  • Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC)

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9Y3DQ3P

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