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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: molecular biodiversity; Insecta; Arachnida; Collembola; Arthropoda; community-based monitoring; tundra; Arctic; Cambridge Bay; Nunavut; Ikaluktutiak; Tundra; Victoria Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11010046

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...