Welcome to the Canada Global Change Transect (CGCT), which includes long term butterfly monitoring data. This site enables butterfly observers to enter and map butterfly observations anywhere in Canada.
These data, which include specimen georeferencing but can also include photos, help test emerging hypotheses around the impacts of global change impacts on biodiversity. This site and related research are funded through an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation and by a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Due to a recent server problem, the butterfly database is not fully online. We are working on this and expect to have all data fully accessible in the coming weeks.
The Canada Global Change Transect Web-dynamic relational Butterfly Database is now live.
Click here to become a registered user of our database and start sharing your butterfly observations.
Global changes, particularly climate change and land use conversion, threaten Canada’s biodiversity and have precipitated rapid geographical shifts among many species. These shifts coincide closely with predictions from an array of macroecological models and prediction systems. How can we meet the conservation challenges posed by such widespread changes, when the targets for conservation are themselves shifting so quickly?
One way to begin to address this concern is to improve our capacity to predict global change impacts on species and links with known environmental changes. Accurate predictions of global change impacts are critical to any effort to address present-day, and ancticipated, conservation challenges. (Read More)
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