The Cascades Butterfly Project: Survey routes, standard operating procedures, and field forms, version 2.0
Rochefort RM. 2024. The Cascades Butterfly Project: Survey routes, standard operating procedures, and field forms, version 2.0. North Cascades National Park Service Complex. Sedro-Woolley, Washington
This document contains survey site descriptions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for field data collection and data entry for the Cascades Butterfly Project (CBP). The CBP is a long-term monitoring program in which community scientists and National Park Service biologists monitor butterfly abundances and plant phenology in subalpine meadows of the Cascade Mountains. CBP surveys were 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 (NPS) and U.S. Forest Service lands. The CBP Protocol presents broad goals and a history of the project and is available on the NPS Data Store: “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 original version of the SOPs was published in 2017; version 2.0 has been updated based on our experiences over the last six years.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Rochefort, Regina
- Date of Issue
- 2024-01
- Publisher
- North Cascades National Park Service Complex
- Units
- MORA , NOCA
- Keywords
- abundance. richness, butterflies, climate change, community science, 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