Plant community spatial mapping (Pieridae)

Knowledge graph centered on Plant community spatial mapping (Pieridae) with 33 nodes and 113 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Lepidoptera, native plants, Penstemon strictus.

Method synopsis

All host plants in the study area were GPS-mapped and converted to a raster grid system to quantify plant community structure and host availability across different habitat types.

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 — Fitness costs of butterfly oviposition on a lethal non-native plant in a mixed native and non-native plant community (2013), Oecologia. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.

1. Map host plant distribution
   Recorded location of all host plants in study area using GPS. Searched for all visible host plants and recorded periphery of each host plant patch. Data converted to raster file with 25x25 cm cells, indicating dominant host plant species or absence of hosts in each cell.
   Quantities: 25x25 cm grid cells across entire 16 ha study areaDuration: Mid-July 2000, repeated in 2002Conditions: Summer field conditions
   Equipment: GPS (GeoXT, Trimble, CA, USA)

Typical Equipment

• GPS (GeoXT, Trimble, CA, USA)

Output Measurements

• plant spatial distribution
• host abundance
• habitat aridity levels

Papers Using This Protocol (1)

Species Studied With This Protocol

Places Where Used