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

• Published in: Insects (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 46
• Main Authors: Pentinsaari, Mikko, Blagoev, Gergin A., Hogg, Ian D., Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie, Perez, Kate, Sobel, Crystal N., Vandenbrink, Bryan, Borisenko, Alex
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 09.01.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: arachnida; arthropoda; Arthropods; Bar codes; Biodiversity; Cables; Climate change; collembola; community-based monitoring; Data collection; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; Ecological effects; Ecological monitoring; Environmental monitoring; Ethanol; Gene sequencing; insecta; Leaf litter; molecular biodiversity; Morphology; Phenology; Sampling methods; Sifting; Species composition; Taiga & tundra; Taxonomy; Tundra; Vegetation; Canada; Nunavut Territory Canada; Arctic region; Victoria Island; tundra; Arachnida; molecular biodiversity; Arthropoda; Insecta; community-based monitoring; Collembola

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...