Butterflies losing habitats due to climate

Posted on February 5th, 2010 in News and Commentary

Butterflies losing habitats due to climate

USA TODAY:

A study of beleaguered butterflies in California provides some of the best clues yet as to how other animals may react to climate change, scientists say.

The unprecedented, 35-year analysis of butterfly populations in the  Sierra Nevade details how several species are fleeing to higher elevations to escape warming temperatures…

A separate study published in September in Biology Letters said climate change was one possible explanation for a sharp decline in female monarch butterflies in the eastern United States and Mexico. British researchers have tracked a decline in several species of butterflies since the 1960s.

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