Peering Into The Invisible Present
How datasets spanning decades and nature apps are expanding our ecological attention span into the long now
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How datasets spanning decades and nature apps are expanding our ecological attention span into the long now
The decades-long decline in butterfly populations across U.S. western states has researchers calling for improvement and expansion of habitat conservation methods. Butterfly decline was estimated using data from 72 locations with at least 10 years of data per location and more than 250 butterfly species, including this Adelpha bredowii, or California Sister. (Credit: Chris Halsch, University of Nevada, Reno) (CN) — The American West is in the grips of a consistent 40-year decline in butterfly populations, a trend researchers on Thursday said can be culled using expanded conservation as clim...