Description
Non-lethal surveys of Bumble Bees (Bombus), Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) and Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) on powerline right-of-ways in central Vermont, USA were conducted at each site using 200 meter transects visited four times during July and August of 2021.
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 162 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:
Hill J, Kerby-Miller P, Castriotta A, Mcmannon A, Fitzgerald E (2023): Surveys of Select Pollinators on Powerline Right-of-Ways in Central Vermont, USA. v1.5. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=row&v=1.5
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: caa0e86f-c17d-49ed-a4a5-449e30405a19. Vermont Center for Ecostudies publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Samplingevent
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Geographic Coverage
North/central Vermont, USA
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [43.628, -73.169], North East [45.027, -71.455] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Genus | Bombus (Bumble Bees) |
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| Species | Apis mellifera (Western Honey Bee), Danaus plexippus (Monarch) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2021-07-01 / 2021-08-31 |
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Sampling Methods
All Bumble bees encountered along the 200m transect were caught with sweep nets and cooled for photographs and/or identification at the conclusion of the survey. Honey Bees and Monarchs were counted on most transects.
| Study Extent | Powerline ROWs throughout Central VT in July and August of 2021. 26, 200m transects, most visited 4 times during the sampling window. Detailed methods will be included in a publication at a later date |
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| Quality Control | Uncertain identifications were posted to iNaturalist.org for community identification. |
Method step description:
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | caa0e86f-c17d-49ed-a4a5-449e30405a19 |
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| https://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=row |