Summer abundance and activity monitoring of arthropods in the Hudson Bay Lowlands

• Main Authors: Jefferies, Robert L., Dungan, Sarah, Rockwell, Robert F.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2012
• Subjects: Arthropods; Biodiversity; Cape Churchill; Insects; Malaise traps; Manitoba; Monitoring; Phenology; Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna - Terrestrial; International Polar Year-Arctic Wildlife Observatories Linking Vulnerable EcoSystems; Arctic; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Churchill; Circumpolar biodiversity monitoring program; Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna; International Polar Year
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/1693; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=1693

We are monitoring the variations in arthropods abundance and activity throughout the whole summer. Pitfall traps are used to capture surface active and low-flying arthropods. Two transects of 5 traps each (20m between each trap) are deployed in heath, sedge, moss and shrub communities. Traps are set...