Historical climate trend analysis (Pieridae)

Knowledge graph centered on Historical climate trend analysis (Pieridae) with 24 nodes and 95 connections. Top connected: Lepidoptera, climate change, elevational gradients, Colias, thermal performance.

Method synopsis

Analysis of long-term temperature records from weather station data to characterize climate change trends and temperature frequency distributions over multi-decade periods.

Synthesized from method descriptions across 1 paper using this protocol.

Procedure from a recent peer-reviewed implementation

Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — Geographic differences and microevolutionary changes in thermal sensitivity of butterfly larvae in response to climate (2014), Functional Ecology. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.

1. Obtain historical climate data
   Daily minimum and maximum air temperatures obtained for appropriate growing season of each population from National Climate Data Center Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily for weather stations within 25 km of field sites
   Quantities: Data from 1961-2011 for all sites, 2001-2011 for Montrose CO onlyDuration: 50 year period (40 years for most comparisons)Conditions: Growing seasons: Sacramento Valley/Chapel Hill March-November, Montrose Valley April-October, Gunnison May-September
   Equipment: National Climate Data Center database access

Typical Equipment

• National Climate Data Center database

Output Measurements

• temperature trends
• frequency of extreme temperatures
• growing season temperatures

Papers Using This Protocol (1)

Species Studied With This Protocol