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Monitoring of the Thorne's hairstreak and mapping Tecate cypress. (1) Conduct occupancy surveys for Thorne's hairstreak adults and juveniles. (2) Characterize habitat associated with Thorne's hairstreak presence. (3) Age trees (by coring) in sampled stands of Tecate cypress. (4) Conduct larval and adult experiments to assess the importance of tree age for Thorne's hairstreak. (5) Analyze data from 2009 and 2010 and prepare final report.

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SDMMP41 Thorne's Hairstreak Monitoring

Project Focus

Target species: Tecate cypress, Thorne's hairstreak butterfly

Target vegetation: southern interior cypress forest

Investigator: Matthew Forister

Main implementing entity: University of Nevada, Reno

Point of contact: Matthew Forister

SDMMP lead: Yvonne Moore

Study lead: Amy Lucas

Strategic Elements

pre FY15-1

Project Location

County: San Diego

General: South-central, South-west

MU: 3

File name	Lead Author	Year	Type
Thorne's Hairstreak (Callophrys [Mitoura] thornei) Monitoring Final report	Forister, Matthew; Lucas, Amy	2012	report
Thorne's Hairstreak (Callophrys [Mitoura] thornei) Monitoring Plan First annual report, covering 2009	Forister, Matthew; Lucas, Amy	2010	report
Thorne's Hairstreak (Callophrys [Mitoura] thornei) Monitoring Second annual report, covering 2010	Forister, Matthew; Lucas, Amy	2011	report
Thorne's Hairstreak (Callophrys [Mitoura] thornei) Monitoring Third annual report, covering 2011	Forister, Matthew; Lucas, Amy	2012	report

UNR Thorne's Hairstreak Monitoring

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