Lepidurus arcticus survey Northeast Greenland 2013

Anders Gravbrøt Finstad; Ditte Katrine Hendrichsen; Erlend Nilsen

doi:doi:10.15468/ancuku

Lepidurus arcticus survey Northeast Greenland 2013

Citation

Finstad A G, Hendrichsen D K, Nilsen E (2016). Lepidurus arcticus survey Northeast Greenland 2013. Version 1.7. NTNU University Museum. Sampling_event Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ancuku accessed via GBIF.org on 2017-08-19.

Description

Small survey of Lepidurus arcticus (tadpole shrimp)occurrences and relative abundance (CPUE from standardized sweep-net survey) in ponds and lakes of the Zackenberg area, North-east Greenland July and August 2013. Includes both presence and absence information.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Lakes and ponds in the proximity of Zackenberg and Daneborg research stations North-east Greenland July-August 2013

Sampling

During the summer 2013 (July-August) a field campaign was conducted where 21 ponds / small lakes in the Zackenberg and Daneborg area North-east Greenland. Semi-quantitative samples of Lepidurus arcticus (using Z-sweeps) where taken several times each pond. The lakes and ponds ranged in size from 2500 to 147000 m2 and depth from 50 to > 300 cm.

Method steps

Data entered on paper in field and transferred to MS xl spreadsheets. Converted to Darwin Core Archive format using the dplyr and tidyr libraries in R (https://github.com/andersfi/DwC).

Taxonomic Coverages

Lepidurus arcticus identified to species

Lepidurus arcticus
common name: tadpole shrimp rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Two main study areas: Zackenberg valley (close to the Zackenberg research station) and Lille Sødal (close to the Daneborg research station).

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Anders Gravbrøt Finstad
originator
position: Associate Professor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Natural History
Trondheim
NO
email: anders.finstad@ntnu.no
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-6266

Ditte Katrine Hendrichsen
originator
position: Researcher
Noregian Institution for Nature Research
Trondheim
email: Ditte.Hendrichsen@nina.no

Erlend Nilsen
originator
position: Senior Researcher
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Trondheim
NO
email: erlend.nilsen@nina.no

Anders Gravbrøt Finstad
metadata author
email: anders.finstad@ntnu.no
homepage: http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/anders.finstad
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-6266

Anders Gravbrøt Finstad
user
email: anders.finstad@ntnu.no

Anders Gravbrøt Finstad
administrative point of contact
position: Associate Professor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Natural History
Trondheim
NO
email: anders.finstad@ntnu.no
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-6266