Description
Two year study of bees in wildlife clearing and adjacent Mesic Red Oak Northern Hardwood Forests of the Merck Forest and Farmland Center. Bee bowls were deployed at 15 sites in early May of 2020 and 2021. Sites were either at the edge of wildlife clearings or at predetermined distances from these clearings within the Mesic Red Oak Northern Hardwood Forest natural community.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 28 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Hardy S, Duclos T, Veit M, Milam J (2023): Surveys of the bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) community in northern hardwood forest and wildlife clearings using pan traps. v1.4. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=merck&v=1.4
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Vermont Center for Ecostudies. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: d6a5709f-1de0-4963-b9f9-a882026a968c. Vermont Center for Ecostudies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Samplingevent
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Merck Forest & Farmland Center, Vermont, USA
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [43.209, -73.213], North East [43.405, -72.949] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Bees
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2020-05-02 / 2021-05-14 |
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Project Data
https://val.vtecostudies.org/
| Title | Vermont Atlas of Life |
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| Identifier | VAL |
| Study Area Description | Vermont, USA |
| Design Description | https://val.vtecostudies.org/ |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
14 sites were surveyed once in 2020 and once 2021. Surveys consisted of 15 bee bowls (5 yellow, 5 white, 5 blue) that were deployed for 24 hours on a warm and clear day.
| Study Extent | All sampling occurred within, or adjacent to, Mesic Red Oak Northern Hardwood Forests at Merck Forest and Farmland Center. All sampling was done in May, before spring leaf out (canopy closure). |
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| Quality Control | All determinations were done by Spencer Hardy, Joan Milam, and Michael Veit |
Method step description:
- Survey locations were pre-determined using QGIS and a natural community map of Merck Forest and Farmland Center. Three sites were placed on the edge of wildlife clearings, 3 at 75 meters from these clearings, 4 at 150 meters, and 4 at >300 meters within the forest.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | d6a5709f-1de0-4963-b9f9-a882026a968c |
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| https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=merck |