Fwd: Re: Weather deals serious blow to monarchs

[Erik Runquist]

Look what's been floating around today on the Ecology Society of America 
chat list...
Erik Runquist


>From: David Thomson <dthomson at HARVEYECOLOGY.COM>
>Reply-To: David Thomson <dthomson at HARVEYECOLOGY.COM>
>To: ECOLOG-L at LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
>Subject: Re: Weather deals serious blow to monarchs
>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:03:30 -0800
>
>Unfortunately I cannot remember the researcher's name but a Monarch
>researcher spoke on NPR just after the event and although I remember
>"catastrophic" he did not mention "extinction".  I think he estimated the
>loss at ~75% (my memory not a quote).
>
>Interestingly, he did say that the number of dead led him to believe that
>the population density in that area was much greater than he had thought.
>
>David Thomson
>(not a Monarch scientist)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
>[mailto:ECOLOG-L at LISTSERV.UMD.EDU]On Behalf Of Joseph Schwartz
>Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:42 PM
>To: ECOLOG-L at LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
>Subject: Re: Weather deals serious blow to monarchs
>
>
>My guess is that at some time over the millennia, this type of incident has
>occurred before, yet we still have Monarchs.
>
>But this issue brings up an interesting question.  Why would Monarchs 
>evolve
>to over winter in one location, susceptible to extinction by one
>catastrophic event?
>
>Joseph Schwartz
>Pollution Control Coordinator
>City of Carrollton Environmental Services
>972-466-3060
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karen Claxon [mailto:kclaxon at earthlink.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:34 PM
>To: ECOLOG-L at LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
>Subject: Weather deals serious blow to monarchs
>
>
>  http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0318monarch18.html
>Weather deals serious blow to monarchs
>
>
>Chicago Tribune
>March 18, 2002
>
>
>Scientists fear that as much as 80 percent of the monarch butterfly
>population may have been killed when a January storm struck the
>butterflies' winter colonies in Mexico, according to Journey North, a
>citizen science project funded by Annenberg/CPB, a partnership of the
>Annenberg Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
>
>
>As the butterflies migrate north this spring, people are asked to record
>monarch sightings for Journey North's Monarch Migration Project at
>www.learner.org/jnorth. The site also offers resources for teachers.
>Registration is required for families or classrooms that want to become
>monarch lookouts, but it is free and can be completed online.
>
>Butterfly reports assist analysis of how weather and other threats, both
>natural and human, affect butterflies.
>
>Journey North said that the monarch population is believed to be at its
>lowest in the 27 years the project has collected data.


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