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[lili4ever]

Butterfly Feels Effect of Warming

Post on Butterflies Website, excerpted from the Los Angeles Times Article by Robert Lee Hotz

"In what experts are calling the first direct biological consequence of global warming, a delicate species of butterfly is being driven north through California to escape rising temperatures."

"Known as Edith's checkerspot butterfly, the insect is prized by collectors for the distinctive orange and black patterns on its wings - which, folded together, are the size of a pair of postage stamps - and by ecologists because it is especially sensitive to subtle climate changes."

Camille Parmesan, a research fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis , "surveyed 151 locations in western North America where the butterfly has flourished."

"In research published in the journal Nature, she found rising temperatures were killing of the butterfly at the southern extremes of its range, while at the same time allowing it to expand to the north. Populations in Mexico were four times as likely to be extinct as those in Canada, Parmesan discovered."

"She also found that in those southern areas where the butterflies persisted, the insects had shifted to higher elevations where temperatures would be slightly cooler."

For the full article, go to Effects of Global Warming on Butterflies

[Keith R]

Lilli, please provide date and direct link. Excerpts should be kept to under 250 words to be safely under the "fair use" rule and not get DR1 into copyright trouble (yes, folks, DR1 does get people come after them for full cut-and-paste of copyrighted articles).

Thanks,
Keith R
Environment Forum moderator

[leekiv]

Originally Posted by Keith R

Lilli, please provide date and direct link. Excerpts should be kept to under 250 words to be safely under the "fair use" rule and not get DR1 into copyright trouble (yes, folks, DR1 does get people come after them for full cut-and-paste of copyrighted articles).

Thanks,
Keith R
Environment Forum moderator

but I have a question in regards to this Keith. If you put up a link is that ok?

[Keith R]

Yes, leekiv, that's fine if you're linking to a your own online photo album or just posting a link to a related story (i.e., no spam please!). In fact, that's what I was asking Lilli for -- the direct link to the story she posted. Usually it's best to include title, author, date, publishing source (NYT, Science mag, etc.), with a short excerpt (such as opening paragraph or so), with direct hyperlink to full story for those who want to read on.

Where DR1 can get into trouble (and I will delete cut-and-paste jobs that might get us into trouble) is if an entire long story is posted, with no link and little to no attribution.

[leekiv]

Originally Posted by Keith R

Yes, leekiv, that's fine if you're linking to a your own online photo album or just posting a link to a related story (i.e., no spam please!). In fact, that's what I was asking Lilli for -- the direct link to the story she posted. Usually it's best to include title, author, date, publishing source (NYT, Science mag, etc.), with a short excerpt (such as opening paragraph or so), with direct hyperlink to full story for those who want to read on.

Where DR1 can get into trouble (and I will delete cut-and-paste jobs that might get us into trouble) is if an entire long story is posted, with no link and little to no attribution.

I have no plans on getting DR1 in trouble If I was not sure I would pm you first and ask

[Keith R]

No prob. It's a good question and I welcomed the opportunity to clear up any confusion about it.

[lili4ever]

Effects of Global Warming on Butterflies

Originally Posted by Keith R

Lilli, please provide date and direct link. Excerpts should be kept to under 250 words to be safely under the "fair use" rule and not get DR1 into copyright trouble (yes, folks, DR1 does get people come after them for full cut-and-paste of copyrighted articles).

Thanks,
Keith R
Environment Forum moderator

[Keith R]

Hmm, there's a problem with that excerpted article. It's from the Butterfly Website, which does not fully attribute the original article. I checked the LA Times website, and while they have many stories by Science writer Hotz, none with that title. Checking further, I only find one reference of a Hotz article on Edith's checkerspot butterfly, and that dates from 1996 and is not available online:

Robert Lee Hotz, “Butterflies Head North to Beat the Rising Heat; Climate:
Researchers Say They Have Found the First Biological Consequence of Global
Warming as Insects Shift to Cooler Habitats,” Los Angeles Times, August 29, 1996

I think I'll have to do a bit of surgery on that post.

[Keith R]

Originally Posted by lili4ever

Effects of Global Warming on Butterflies

Thanks, Lilli.

[Chirimoya]

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