The Cascades Butterfly Project: Survey routes, standard operating procedures, and field forms
Rochefort RM. 2017. The Cascades Butterfly Project: Survey routes, standard operating procedures, and field forms. North Cascades National Park Service Complex. Sedro-Woolley, Washington
The Cascades Butterfly Project (CBP) is a long-term monitoring program in which citizen scientists and National Park Service biologists monitor butterfly abundances and plant phenology in subalpine meadows of the Cascade Mountains. This report is a companion document to “The Cascades Butterfly Project: A Protocol for Monitoring Subalpine Butterflies and Plant Phenology in the Cascade Mountains of Washington” Natural Resource Report NPS/NOCA/NRR—2017/1440 https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2240282. The Protocol presents the projects broad goals and history of the project and this report contains descriptions of survey sites, the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for field data collection and butterfly data entry into an on-line data base. The CBP was initiated in 2011 with broad goals to understand the influence of climate change on high-elevation ecosystems, document changes in species distributions and abundances, communicate these impacts to the public, and provide these data to inform protection of National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service lands.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Rochefort, Regina
- Date of Issue
- 2017-05
- Publisher
- North Cascades National Park Service Complex
- Units
- MORA , NOCA
- Keywords
- abundance. richness, butterflies, citizen science, climate change, distribution, field form, monitoring, Mount Rainier National Park, North Cascades National Park Service Complex, phenology, plant, route, SOP, species, standard operating procedure, subalpine, survey
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Terrestrial Invertebrates