Overview
Project Name
Trinational Monarch Knowledge Network
Access Level
Open
Year started
2016
Year Ended
From June 2016 to present
Dataset
Mission Monarch
About
Dataset summary
The main objective of Mission Monarch is to locate and quantify monarch reproduction habitats in North America.
Season(s) and frequency
Updated Annually
Geographic area covered
North America
Primary species covered
monarch (Danaus plexippus) and milkweeds (Asclepias spp.)
Goals
The main objective of Mission Monarch is to locate and quantify monarch reproduction habitats in North America.
Methods
Sampling Design
The Mission Monarch protocol consists in looking at milkweed plants and documenting the abundance of monarchs at any life stage. Examined milkweed stems and monarchs are counted. Number of examined milkweed stems is up to the observer.
Field methods
Drapeau Picard, Charest & Larrivée. 2019. Mission Monarch: Engaging citizens for the conservation of a species at risk. Being written.
QA/QC
All observations are vetted by a regional expert. Prior to upload into the TMKN, data are screened to remove duplicates and outliers.All removed observations can be requested to the data owner.
