Population trends of monarchs at a northern monitoring site: Analyses of 19 years of fall migration counts at peninsula point, MI

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 700-706

  Badgett, Gina ^a   Davis, Andrew K ^b  

^a Peninsula Point Monarch Monitoring Project   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Danaus plexippus; long term trend; migration; Monarch butterfly; population estimate

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BUTTERFLY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIGRATION; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TRAJECTORY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHIGAN; PENINSULA POINT; UNITED STATES;

DANAUS PLEXIPPUS;

EID: 84944081269     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aesa/sav060     Document Type: Article

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