Macroarthropods, Narsarsuaq 2014, Greenland

Toke Thomas Høye1, Isabel Calabuig2

1 Dept. of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Grenåvej 14, 8410, Rønde, Denmark; 2 DanBIF, Natural History Museum of Denmark, , Denmark

Corresponding author(s): Toke Thomas Høye (tth@bios.au.dk)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Høye T T (2017): Macroarthropods, Narsarsuaq 2014, Greenland. v1.2. Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University. Dataset/Occurrence. http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=macroarthropods-narsarsuaq2014-greenland&v=1.2

Abstract

Pitfall trap data set collected by Toke Thomas Høye, Rikke Reisner Hansen, and Joseph J. Bowden

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Macroarthropods, Greenland, Pitfall trap, Spiders, Beetles, Araneae, Coleoptera

Project details

Project title: Narsarsuaq biodiversity monitoring
Personnel: Toke T. Høye
Funding: Carlsberg Foundation, Aarhus University Arctic Research Centre

Data published through GBIF: http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=macroarthropods-narsarsuaq2014-greenland

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Order: Coleoptera, Araneae
Common names: Beetles, Spiders

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The sampling was carried out at sites at Narsarsuaq, Southern Greenland
Coordinates: 61°8'52.8''N and 61°11'2.4''N Latitude; 45°24'18''W and 45°21'57.6''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: July 8, 2014 - August 25, 2014

Natural collections description

Collection name: Greenland macroarthropods
Specimen preservation method: Alcohol

Methods

Method step description: See associated scientific paper.
Study extent description: Local environmental gradients in permanent plots
Sampling description: Pitfall trapping. Please note: Dataset records result from a date range for pitfall traps collecting specimens. Date range is currently mapped to VerbatimDate until correct indexing of date ranges is available in the GBIF portal. Currently eventDate in this dataset is the start-date of the date range.
Quality control description: Difficult specimens checked by taxonomists

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Macroarthropods, Narsarsuaq 2014, Greenland
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/archive.do?r=macroarthropods-narsarsuaq2014-greenland
Publication date of data: 2017-09-27
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2017-08-02
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Høye, T.T.; Bowden, J.J.; Hansen, O.L.P.; Hansen, R.R.; Henriksen, T.N.; Niebuhr, A. and Skytte, M.G. (2017): Elevation modulates how Arctic arthropod communities are structured along local environmental gradients. Polar Biology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2204-2