CLE Butterfly Survey — Conservation Lands Experiment
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Different prairie restoration schemes in the Common Land Experiment will affect the abundance and presence of butterflies. This table contains the result of transect surveys carried out on warm and calm days between the hours of 10 am and 4 pm.
This datatable is part of the Butterfly Surveys dataset.
Periodic Butterfly surveys from locations around KBS.
In order to prevent the loss of biodiversity, natural habitat must be incorporated in production landscapes. The LTER has been a leader in understanding how crop management affects ecosystem functions and productivity, however, many questions remain regarding how crop management affects biodiversity and ecosystem services at higher trophic levels. An understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem services is particularly important with the addition of the prairie strips in the LTER MCSE. Butterflies are a group of animals highly valued for pollination ecosystem services and cultural services. We sample butterflies across agricultural treatments, along prairie strips, and in Conservation Lands Experiment (CLE) plots in and around the LTER
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| Experiment: | Conservation Lands Experiment |
| Data available from: | July 2020 to September 2021 |
| Dataset: | KBS142 |
| Datatable ID: | KBS142-002.41 |
| Core Areas | Populations |
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| Last Updated | 2023-10-24 |
| Variate | Description | Units |
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| sample date | Sample Date in the Eastern Time zone | |
| site | Site sampled | |
| treatment | field treatment | |
| replicate | field replicate | |
| transect type | the type of transect performed | |
| transect length m | the length of the transect | |
| transect walking time min | the time it took to walk the transect | |
| local start time | the local time the transect was started | |
| start temperature c | the air temperature at the start of the transect | |
| cloud cover | the estimated cloud cover in percent | |
| wind speed avg kph | The average wind speed at the start of the transect measured with a Kestrel wind speed meter | |
| wind speed max kph | maximum wind speed recorded on the Kestrel meter at the start of the transect | |
| field species | preliminary field species identification | |
| family | family of the butterfly species observed | |
| species | species of the butterfly were observed and corrected for errors from the field identification. | |
| common name | common name of the butterfly observed | |
| comments | comments about the observation |
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| MCSE/CLE Butterfly Survey |
Data Excerpt
| sample_date | site | treatment | replicate | transect_type | transect_length_m | transect_walking_time_min | local_start_time | start_temperature_c | cloud_cover | wind_speed_avg_kph | wind_speed_max_kph | field_species | family | species | common_name | comments |
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| 2020-07-17 | CLE | No Till | strip | 100.0 | 8.0 | 15:23:00 | 31.0 | 0 | 3.4 | 7.6 | Monarch | Nymphalidae | Danaus plexippus | Monarch | ||
| 2020-07-17 | CLE | No Till | strip | 100.0 | 8.0 | 15:23:00 | 31.0 | 0 | 3.4 | 7.6 | Monarch | Nymphalidae | Danaus plexippus | Monarch | ||
| 2020-07-17 | CLE | Field Lab | strip | 100.0 | 8.0 | 15:20:00 | 30.5 | 10 | 6.6 | 11.9 | Crescent sp | Nymphalidae | Phyciodes sp | Crescent sp | ||
| 2020-07-17 | CLE | Field Lab | strip | 100.0 | 8.0 | 15:20:00 | 30.5 | 10 | 6.6 | 11.9 | Crescent sp | Nymphalidae | Phyciodes sp | Crescent sp | ||
| 2020-07-17 | CLE | Field Lab | strip | 100.0 | 8.0 | 15:20:00 | 30.5 | 10 | 6.6 | 11.9 | Monarch | Nymphalidae | Danaus plexippus | Monarch |