Habitat Assessment of Myrtle’s Silverspot Butterfly at Point Reyes National Seashore

National Park Service. 2007. Habitat Assessment of Myrtle’s Silverspot Butterfly at Point Reyes National Seashore. Pacific Coast Science and Learning Center

Project summary for a 2002-2003 study investigating whether dunes and grasslands grazed by cattle at Point Reyes National Seashore provide adequate habitat for the endangered Myrtle's silverspot butterfly. The project compared the plants crucial to the lifecycle of the Myrtle’s silverspot butterfly and the numbers of Myrtle's silverspot butterflies seen between grazed and ungrazed dunes and grasslands.

Type
Resource Brief
Authors
National Park Service
Date of Issue
2007-08
Publisher
Pacific Coast Science and Learning Center
Units
PORE , SFAN
Keywords
butterflies, endangered, grassland, grazing, Myrtle’s Silverspot, Speyeria zerene myrtleae
Subjects
Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Terrestrial Invertebrates , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | At-risk Biota | T&E Species and Communities

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