A DNA Barcoding Survey of an Arctic Arthropod Community: Implications for Future Monitoring

• Published in: Insects
• Main Authors: Mikko Pentinsaari, Gergin A. Blagoev, Ian D. Hogg, Valerie Levesque-Beaudin, Kate Perez, Crystal N. Sobel, Bryan Vandenbrink, Alex Borisenko
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: molecular biodiversity; insecta; arachnida; collembola; arthropoda; community-based monitoring; tundra; Science; Q; Arctic; Cambridge Bay; Nunavut; Ikaluktutiak; Tundra; Victoria Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11010046; https://doaj.org/article/eca22a4655a943398ede1f823909dfe0

Accurate and cost-effective methods for tracking changes in arthropod communities are needed to develop integrative environmental monitoring programs in the Arctic. To date, even baseline data on their species composition at established ecological monitoring sites are severely lacking. We present th...