Data from: Establishing a community-wide DNA barcode library as a new tool for arctic research ...

• Main Authors: Wirta, H., Várkonyi, G., Rasmussen, C., Kaartinen, R., Schmidt, N. M., Hebert, P. D. N., Barták, M., Blagoev, G., Disney, H., Ertl, S., Gjelstrup, P., Gwiazdowicz, D. J., Huldén, L., Ilmonen, J., Jakovlev, J., Jaschhof, M., Kahanpää, J., Kankaanpää, T., Krogh, P. H., Labbee, R., Lettner, C., Michelsen, V., Nielsen, S. A., Nielsen, T. R., Paasivirta, L., Pedersen, S., Pohjoismäki, J., Salmela, J., Vilkamaa, P., Väre, H., Von Tschirnhaus, M., Roslin, T.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2015
• Subjects: DNA barcode library; Arctic; Greenland; Zackenberg
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sg5s0; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.sg5s0

DNA sequences offer powerful tools for describing the members and interactions of natural communities. In this study, we establish the to-date most comprehensive library of DNA barcodes for a terrestrial site, including all known macroscopic animals and vascular plants of an intensively studied area of the High Arctic, the Zackenberg Valley in Northeast Greenland. To demonstrate its utility, we apply the library to identify nearly 20 000 arthropod individuals from two Malaise traps, each operated for two summers. Drawing on this material, we estimate the coverage of previous morphology-based species inventories, derive a snapshot of faunal turnover in space and time and describe the abundance and phenology of species in the rapidly changing arctic environment. Overall, 403 terrestrial animal and 160 vascular plant species were recorded by morphology-based techniques. DNA barcodes (CO1) offered high resolution in discriminating among the local animal taxa, with 92% of morphologically distinguishable taxa ... : DS-ZACKANIM intrasp divergence and distance to NN raw dataRaw data on the intraspecific divergence and distance to nearest neighbour for the dataset DS-ZACKANIM (dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-ZACKANIM) and the DNA barcode region CO1DS-ZACKPLAN ITS2 intrasp divergence and distance to NN raw dataRaw data on intraspecific divergence and distance to nearest neighbour for the dataset DS-ZACKPLAN (dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-ZACKPLAN) and the DNA barcode region ITS2DS-ZACKPLAN rbcLa intrasp divergence and distance to NN raw dataRaw data on intraspecific divergence and distance to nearest neighbour for the dataset DS-ZACKPLAN (dx.doi.org/10.5883/DS-ZACKPLAN) and the DNA barcode region rbcLa ...