Bee Fauna of National Wildlife Refuges in the Pacific Northwest, 2010-2016

Harold Ikerd; Joe Engler

doi:10.15468/ppjnys

Bee Fauna of National Wildlife Refuges in the Pacific Northwest, 2010-2016

Citation

Ikerd H, Engler J (2023). Bee Fauna of National Wildlife Refuges in the Pacific Northwest, 2010-2016. USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect-Biology, Management, Systematics Research. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ppjnys accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

In 2010, the Pacific Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) initiated a native bee sampling program to document the bee fauna at 15 National Wildlife Refuges (NWR), 1 National Monument, and 1 Bureau of Land Management site in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho (hereafter referred to as Refuges or Sites). This program was comprised of six sampling components, utilizing two methodologies depending on the available staff, site objectives, and accessibility. For purposes of data publication, these components are summarized as follows. Component 1 (Array Sampling) was designed to collect baseline data within shrub-steppe habitats along a north-south gradient in Washington and Oregon. A secondary objective of this sampling was to determine if there were genera and/or species differences along this latitudinal gradient. As there were no wildlife refuges in northeastern Oregon, the Bureau of Land Management’s Oregon Trail Interpretive Center (OTIC) was selected to fill this gap. Refuges included in this project include Turnbull NWR in NE Washington, McNary NWR in central Washington, and Malheur NWR in SE Oregon; the OTIC site is located in northeastern Oregon. All sites were sampled during 2011 and 2012, using a 9-cup glycol array (see Methodology). This was the only component in this program to use glycol arrays. Sampling sites were situated in easily accessible shrub-steppe habitats typical of the specific NWR and OTIC. Component 2 (Baseline Sampling) was designed to collect baseline data at a suite of NWRs and was the primary objective and sampling scheme used from 2011-2016. Refuges within this component used a variation of the standard 30-bowl (pan trap) transect, instead deploying 2-15 bowl transects set adjacent to different habitats to increase the prospects of increasing catch diversity and attaining a better representation of bee fauna on the refuge (see Methodology). Depending on the site, sampling occurred: for two consecutive seasons using the same transect location; 1 season of sampling only; incidental sampling for 1 or 2 seasons but without fixed locations between sampling events; and habitat-based plots to assess variability in succession.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

All sites were sampled during 2011 and 2012, using a 9-cup glycol array (see Methodology). This was the only component in this program to use glycol arrays. Sampling sites were situated in easily accessible shrub-steppe habitats typical of the specific NWR and OTIC.

Sampling

See Project data.

Method steps

4000 records are still being updated. This dataset will be updated yearly as new specimen determinations are recorded. When the Darwin core field Individualcount has a number greater than 1, this can represent a mating pair (male and female mounted on the same pin) or the use of a gel cap to house multiple specimens of the same sex on a single pin. Specimens with the ownerInstitutionCode other than "BBSL" have been deposited with others as a synoptic collections.

Taxonomic Coverages

Apoidea; Latreille, 1802 (bees)

Apoidea
rank: superfamily

Geographic Coverages

15 National Wildlife Refuges (NWR), 1 National Monument, and 1 Bureau of Land Management site in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho Bounding: lat> 48.73240/42.64700 long> -124.06000/-111.30330

Bibliographic Citations

Gonzalez V, Ikerd H (2014) AnthWest, occurrence records for wool carder bees of the genus Anthidium (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae, Anthidiini) in the Western Hemisphere. ZooKeys 408: 31-49. - https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.408.5633

Contacts

Harold Ikerd
originator
USDA-ARS
5310 Old Main Hill
Logan
84322
Utah
US
Telephone: 4352275711
email: Harold.Ikerd@usda.gov
homepage: https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/person?person-id=39335
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-6484

Joe Engler
originator
position: Retired Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
email: jdengler0259@gmail.com

Harold Ikerd
metadata author
USDA-ARS
5310 Old Main Hill
Logan
84322
Utah
US
Telephone: 4352275711
email: Harold.Ikerd@usda.gov
homepage: https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/person?person-id=39335
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-6484

Joe Engler
metadata author
position: retired wildlife biologist
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
US
email: jdengler0259@gmail.com

Harold Ikerd
curator
USDA-ARS
5310 Old Main Hill
Logan
84322
Utah
US
Telephone: 4352275711
email: Harold.Ikerd@usda.gov
homepage: https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/person?person-id=39335
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-6484

Joe Engler
author
position: retired wildlife biologist
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
email: jdengler0259@gmail.com

Terry Griswold
author
position: Research Entomologist
USDA-ARS
5310 Old Main Hill
Logan
84322
Utah
US
email: terry.griswold@usda.gov
userId: https://orcid.org/0000000339529393

Harold Ikerd
administrative point of contact
USDA-ARS
5310 Old Main Hill
Logan
84322
Utah
US
Telephone: 4352275711
email: Harold.Ikerd@usda.gov
homepage: https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/person?person-id=39335
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5043-6484

Joe Engler
administrative point of contact
position: Retired
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Oregon
US
email: jdengler0259@gmail.com

Kevin Kilbride
administrative point of contact
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
911 NE 11th Avenue
Portland,
97232
OR
Telephone: 503-231-6176
email: kevin_kilbride@fws.gov
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