Andrew Hogan, ávido mariposas y usuario de eButterfly desde hace mucho tiempo, comparte con nosotros sus hallazgos del Tohono Chul Park en Arizona, donde ha realizado un recuento semanal de mariposas desde 2014. Conozca algunos de sus hallazgos y tal vez se inspire para comenzar un recuento semanal cerca de ti!
Los paseos con mariposas no solo son una actividad relajante, sino también una fuente invaluable de datos para la ciencia. Únete al Dr. Federico Riva mientras analiza la importancia de las listas de verificación registradas en eButterfly para su trabajo: (i) el uso de listas de verificación de mariposas para comprender los cambios de población e informar las prácticas de conservación; (ii) la importancia de la “detección imperfecta” – nuestra incapacidad para ver todas las mariposas cuando las estamos buscando – y cómo podemos maximizar el número de mariposas que vemos en un sitio; (iii) su trabajo actual con eButterfly, que aprovecha miles de observaciones de científicos comunitarios para ayudar a comprender las regiones de prioridad de conservación en América del Norte. (Video en Ingles)
Estamos muy contentos de que el Dr. Federico Riva se una a nosotros para una breve estancia. Durante los próximos meses, trabajará para mapear la distribución de las mariposas de América del Norte, evaluar las tendencias en sus poblaciones y ayudar a informar las prácticas de monitoreo efectivas. Le pedimos que compartiera un poco sobre su experiencia y su trabajo con las mariposas. Bienvenido al equipo de eButterfly Dr. Riva!
Con meses de preparación, acabamos de realizar mejoras y correcciones sustanciales en la columna vertebral taxonómica de eButterfly. Esto mejorará drásticamente la experiencia del usuario al ingresar listas de verificación y explorar datos. Conozca todos los detalles …
(English) The 4th of July Butterfly Count season is here! Each year, hundreds of butterfly enthusiasts participate in a cooperative effort to count butterflies within established 15-mile diameter survey circles. Most counts depend on the efforts of multiple parties, with each individual or team checking different parts of the survey circle, then combining their counts into a final count total. These tallies are then used to compare between years. The counts are an important and long-running survey that help understand changes in butterfly populations at large scales. Your checklists can also be important for eButterfly too!
(English) Our new eButterfly Projects tool allows you to easily and quickly create a hub for your event, club, class, or organization. An eButterfly Project creates a space for you that pools observations of eButterfly users together. You can automatically include all of the checklists and observations that fit the places, taxa, users, or dates that you specify. Whether you’re starting a community science effort, creating a home for your user group, or running a butterfly bioblitz; eButterfly Projects is the new tool for you.
(English) Every time butterfly watchers raise binoculars and cameras to record a butterfly sighting, they collect important data. Recording the number, date, and location of each and every butterfly, no matter how common or rare, may seem trivial, even repetitive— but this detailed information can be invaluable to science and conservation. Join Rodrigo Solis Sosa, our Human Network and Data Coordinator, as he explains how to use eButterfly in this recorded webinar from April 27.
Forecasting species responses to climate change is integral to the development of adaptive and practical conservation decisions. Butterflies are climate-constrained in at least two ways, as ectotherms, the climate has a defining role in dictating where butterflies can live. Additionally, a warming climate may have huge impacts on their host plant availability. These constraints could mean certain butterfly species may have to move north, or up in elevation, to stay within their preferred temperature range. Predicting how butterflies might respond to such temperature and host plant shifts could inform decisions involving conservation prioritization, species management, and natural resource management.
(English) We’re excited to announce some great improvements and new tools for eButterfly that we just released, with even more on the way. Our team has worked hard all winter to improve how the communications center operates, adding additional languages, upgrading the checklist submission process, improving the user experience for viewing checklists, updates that increase the performance of eButterfly, and many minor bug fixes.
(English) In 2010 when the largest butterfly in North America fluttered among Ardys Fisher’s flowers at the end of July, she knew it was something neat. Now, our study published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution this week shows an unusually rapid northward range shift by the Eastern Giant Swallowtail over the last two decades.
