Population and critical habitat modeling of overwintering monarch butterflies [2024 INV#WO0000000109410]
Description
Monarch butterflies in the western United States overwinter at very specific locations across coastal California. As monarch population decline it become important to identify the characteristics of what makes an overwintering grove a suitable habitat.
Detailed example
Characteristics of what makes an overwintering grove a suitable habitat.
AI / analytics pattern
Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relationships.
Automation level / stage
b) Pilot – The use case has been deployed in a limited test or pilot capacity.
Expected benefit
Understanding the land cover and climatic factors that influence site selection by monarch can aid land managers in both making decisions to support existing critical habitat, and identify previously unknown locations where monarchs overwinter
Controls / human review
ATO: No; PIA: Not published
Data needed
High resolution land cover data, population abundance data, regional climate data