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Characterizing New Wintering Sites for Monarch Butterfly Colonies in Sierra Nevada, Mexico
Every year, Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) travels to hibernate in oyamel fir forests located between the limits of the states of Michoacán and Mexico in Mexico. Climate change and anthropogenic actions are diminishing oyamel fir forests in Mexico, putting pressure on the habitats of monarch butt...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7349808/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32575885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11060384 |
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author | Pérez-Miranda, Ramiro Arriola-Padilla, Víctor Javier Romero-Sanchez, Martín Enrique |
author_facet | Pérez-Miranda, Ramiro Arriola-Padilla, Víctor Javier Romero-Sanchez, Martín Enrique |
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description | Every year, Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) travels to hibernate in oyamel fir forests located between the limits of the states of Michoacán and Mexico in Mexico. Climate change and anthropogenic actions are diminishing oyamel fir forests in Mexico, putting pressure on the habitats of monarch butterflies. In the last decade, new colonies outside their usual range have been predicted through modeling and reported by the National Commission on Protected Areas of Mexico. The objectives of the study were to recover information on the historical and new hibernation sites, reported or modeled, from different literature sources. We also aimed to perform a bioclimatic and forest biometric characterization of new monarch butterfly colonies located in Sierra Nevada in Mexico to provide information to aid in conservation strategies for the monarch butterfly population. We conducted field trips to georeference the colonies at sites located in the Atlautla municipality in Mexico State. Climatic, topographic, and forest biometric variables were used to characterize the sites physically. It was found that the butterfly’s roosts occurred at a higher elevation than those recorded by other sources. The locations where the monarch’s colonies were established, in the east of Mexico State, provide information relevant to defining and developing policies for their conservation. |
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spelling | pubmed-73498082020-07-15 Characterizing New Wintering Sites for Monarch Butterfly Colonies in Sierra Nevada, Mexico Pérez-Miranda, Ramiro Arriola-Padilla, Víctor Javier Romero-Sanchez, Martín Enrique Insects Article Every year, Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) travels to hibernate in oyamel fir forests located between the limits of the states of Michoacán and Mexico in Mexico. Climate change and anthropogenic actions are diminishing oyamel fir forests in Mexico, putting pressure on the habitats of monarch butterflies. In the last decade, new colonies outside their usual range have been predicted through modeling and reported by the National Commission on Protected Areas of Mexico. The objectives of the study were to recover information on the historical and new hibernation sites, reported or modeled, from different literature sources. We also aimed to perform a bioclimatic and forest biometric characterization of new monarch butterfly colonies located in Sierra Nevada in Mexico to provide information to aid in conservation strategies for the monarch butterfly population. We conducted field trips to georeference the colonies at sites located in the Atlautla municipality in Mexico State. Climatic, topographic, and forest biometric variables were used to characterize the sites physically. It was found that the butterfly’s roosts occurred at a higher elevation than those recorded by other sources. The locations where the monarch’s colonies were established, in the east of Mexico State, provide information relevant to defining and developing policies for their conservation. MDPI 2020-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7349808/ /pubmed/32575885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11060384 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Pérez-Miranda, Ramiro Arriola-Padilla, Víctor Javier Romero-Sanchez, Martín Enrique Characterizing New Wintering Sites for Monarch Butterfly Colonies in Sierra Nevada, Mexico |
title | Characterizing New Wintering Sites for Monarch Butterfly Colonies in Sierra Nevada, Mexico |
title_full | Characterizing New Wintering Sites for Monarch Butterfly Colonies in Sierra Nevada, Mexico |
title_fullStr | Characterizing New Wintering Sites for Monarch Butterfly Colonies in Sierra Nevada, Mexico |
title_full_unstemmed | Characterizing New Wintering Sites for Monarch Butterfly Colonies in Sierra Nevada, Mexico |
title_short | Characterizing New Wintering Sites for Monarch Butterfly Colonies in Sierra Nevada, Mexico |
title_sort | characterizing new wintering sites for monarch butterfly colonies in sierra nevada, mexico |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7349808/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32575885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11060384 |
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