PollardBase (BISON-PollardBase)

PollardBase is a data entry and management system for butterfly monitoring programs that follow protocols similar to those described by Ernie Pollard and have become known in the butterfly world as “Pollard Walks”. All these programs use trained volunteers who walk set routes multiple times during each season and over several years. Butterfly monitoring data published by PollardBase collaborators includes the following collaborator’s datasets:
PollardBase - Cascades Butterfly Project;
PollardBase - Colorado Butterfly Monitoring Network;
PollardBase - Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network;
PollardBase - Iowa Butterfly Survey Network;
PollardBase - Michigan Butterfly network;
PollardBase - Missouri Botanical Garden;
PollardBase - Orange County Butterfly Monitoring Network;
PollardBase - Tennessee Butterfly Monitoring Network.

These data have been retrieved from a GBIF instance, which may be found here: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/6dc35c87-ff97-4708-9e45-6f764ddc1ef3 . This dataset is being provided as a service to SCAN users, please obtain data records directly from the GBIF instance.

Contact: Leslie Ries (Leslie.Ries@georgetown.edu)

Home Page: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/6dc35c87-ff97-4708-9e45-6f764ddc1ef3

Collection Type: Observations

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 3.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial)

• 117,169 occurrence
• 117,138 (100%) georeferenced
• 97,543 (83%) identified to species
• 6 families
• 95 genera
• 232 species
• 235 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)