Realm: Terrestrial
Climate: Temperate
Biome: Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Central latitude: 39.263359
Central longitude: -76.278496
Duration: 7 years, from 2009 to 2015

1490 records

71 distinct species

Across the time series Aphaenogaster rudis is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

These methods are drawn from Pelini, S.L., Bowles, F.P., Ellison, A.M., Gotelli, N.J., Sanders, N.J. and Dunn, R.R., 2011. Heating up the forest: open?top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities at Harvard and Duke Forests. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2(5), pp.534-540. Data managers note: this dataset contains only a subset of the original data, containing only pitfall trap data from control plots. The ongoing, long-term experiment is being conducted simultaneously at two sites, Harvard Forest and Duke Forest. There are a total of 15 experimental plots in the forest understorey at each site. Twelve of the plots have chambers: nine are heated and three are unheated chamber controls. Each site also has three chamberless control plots that lack chambers but are equal in surface area to the chambers. The octagonal chambers are 21.7 m3 in volume: 5 m in diameter with eight walls each 1.90 m wide and 1.2 m long. Each chamber has a ± 20-cm-diameter oak tree (Quercus rubra at Harvard Forest and Quercus alba at Duke Forest). We use monthly pitfall trapping and annual Winkler sampling to assess the composition, phenology and abundance of arthropod communities within the experiment; each plot has four pitfall traps (5 cm diameter) that are located c. 1 m inside of the chamber walls or edges of the chamberless control plots. Each month, pitfall traps are filled with 6080 mL of 95% EtOH and left uncovered for 48 h during precipitation-free conditions. Once during the summer (JulyAugust), we also collect organic matter and loose surface soil in two 0.25-m × 0.25-m quadrats on opposite sides of the plots. Litter is placed into Winkler extractors (Fisher, 1998); all arthropods captured are sorted, identified, counted and stored in 95% EtOH. Arthropod specimens are catalogued and stored at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard Forest, or North Carolina State University.

Citation(s)

@Dataset{BioTIME_cit365, Study_id = {605}, Citation_id = {365}, Author = {Ellison, Aaron and Dunn, Robert}, Publisher = {Environmental Data Initiative}, Title = {Ants Under Climate Change at Harvard Forest and Duke Forest 2009-2015 ver 60}, Year = {2021}, Doi = {10.6073/pasta/4f6e15dcfd1abfa62f2c582f39804730}, Url = {https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4f6e15dcfd1abfa62f2c582f39804730}, Language = {English}, Version = {60} }<br/>@Article{BioTIME_cit366, Study_id = {605}, Citation_id = {366}, Author = {Pelini, Shannon L. and Bowles, Francis P. and Ellison, Aaron M. and Gotelli, Nicholas J. and Sanders, Nathan J. and Dunn, Robert R.}, Journal = {Methods in Ecology and Evolution}, Pages = {534-540}, Title = {Heating up the forest: open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities at Harvard and Duke Forests}, Volume = {2}, Year = {2011}, Doi = {10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00100.x}, Language = {English} }