Butterfly declines in protected areas of Illinois: Assessing the influence of two decades of climate and landscape change

• Nicole B. Kucherov ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole B. Kucherov, Kevin C. Matteson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: najecknb@miamioh.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology/Project Dragonfly, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3834-8830

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• Emily S. Minor ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Biological Sciences (M/C 066), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Philip P. Johnson ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Biological Sciences (M/C 066), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Doug Taron ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Kevin C. Matteson

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole B. Kucherov, Kevin C. Matteson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology/Project Dragonfly, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States of America

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