Welcome to the Romania BMS
This page is used to inform about the Austrian Butterfly Monitoring System BMS for monitoring Austrian butterflies.
Be part of the eBMS community and count butterflies!
Methodologies
The basic methodology for a BMS is the Transect, a fixed route that is visited frequently to count butterfly species present and their abundances. Thanks to this method of repetitive counts we count to determine the butterfly trends and their current status. Help us in the protection of butterflies doing a transect close to your house or working place like thousand of volunteers in Europe. See more information on how to do a transect on the page Methods or below on this page.
If you are not able to do a transect or you would like to try other methodologies, there is another methodology to count butterflies for eBMS, the 15-min Counts collected through the ButterflyCount mobile application, where your GPS tracks your route while counting butterflies for 15 minutes. All the data collected on this website will be shared with the Lithuania BMS.
This free resource makes it easy to keep track of what you see while making your data openly available for scientific research, education, and conservation.
To see more information on the ButterflyCount app check the page: https://butterfly-monitoring.net/ebms-app
Material Information
- Transect Manual 
Discover the transect methodology for butterfly monitoring, the methodology used to monitoring butterflies and understand their conservation status. In this manual, you will learn the simple and basic rules to follow when performing a transect.
eBMS Transect Manual (English)
Download the Field Sheet (pdf English) for registering your data on the field
- eBMS Guidelines
Download the complete eBMS guide on this link (in English). It includes information on how to create new transects, edit your transects, add visits and see where to generate the graphs of your data.
Some parts of the guide could change, the website is updating.
- Contact
Please, contact the coordinators before starting a transect, they can help you where to do your transect and give advice on butterfly monitoring. If you would like to participate in monitoring butterflies in Romania, contact the coordinators:
Butterfly Identification Material
Field Guide
(future field guides of Romania in preparation)