Description
This dataset is the public release of insect specimen occurrence records from Fish and Wildlife Compensation Columbia Region project COL-F21-W-3304. It includes records for 1529 insect specimens, 1440 of which are bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila). This is year one of a five year project.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence 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 1,529 records.
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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Best L, Huff V, Beckwith B, Anderson I (2022): Records of Bees from British Columbia I: West Kootenay. v1.0. Kootenay Native Plant Society. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/krc8wu
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Kootenay Native Plant Society. 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: 464fad92-db08-45fd-b355-ecdc2675c3af. Kootenay Native Plant Society publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; pinned specimens; species at risk; Bombus; bumble bees; bees; Anthophila; Hymenoptera; blue vane trap; floral association; aerial net; n/a; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider
Geographic Coverage
Seven field sites distributed within the Regional District of the Central Kootenay and Regional District of the Kootenay Boundary in British Columbia, Canada.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [48.961, -118.674], North East [49.937, -116.669] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2020-05-02 / 2021-07-14 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Bee Abundance and Diversity Baseline in Camas Meadows |
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| Identifier | COL-F21-W-3304 |
| Funding | Funding provided by the Fish and Wildlife Compensation program on behalf of its program partners BC Hydro, the Province of BC, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, First Nations and Public Stakeholders. |
| Study Area Description | Nine study sites were selected at low elevations along ~60 km of the Kootenay/Columbia river system. The sites represent a diversity of habitat types including bedrock seepage meadows, rocky shorelines, and open floodplains, which do not fit well within current provincial ecological land classification systems. A common characteristic of each site is that the diversity of flowering plants is high relative to adjacent habitat. Each site represents a small patch of unique habitat within a varied landscape dominated by managed forests, reservoirs, urban development, industrial infrastructure and transportation corridors. Most sites fall within the Interior Cedar Hemlock - Very Dry Warm (ICHxw) Biogeoclimatic Subzone, though the Beaver Creek Provincial Park site is transitional to the Cedar Hemlock - Very Dry Warm - Warm Phase (ICHxwa) in the south, and the Upper Marsden site is transitional with the Interior Cedar Hemlock - Dry Warm subzone in the North (MacKillop and Ehman 2016). The climate includes very hot, very dry summers and mild dry winters (MacKillop and Ehman 2016). The ICHxw subzone contains forests with a diverse assemblage of tree and shrub species and a disproportionately large number of wildlife and plant species at risk. |
| Design Description | Native bee species were sampled using Blue Vane (BV) Traps. The sampling period was from May 2, 2020 - July 14, 2020. Sampling duration was 14-72 days. Sample duration was typically 14-18 days, with the exception of some sampling sites which experienced substantial flooding and traps could not be recovered safely until flooding subsided. Three BV traps were set at each of six camas sites. Food grade propylene glycol was used as a preservative in the traps. At each site, the contents of the three BV traps were pooled to produce a single sample. The contents of a sample were transferred to jars containing 95% ethanol. Where traps were stolen, vandalized, damaged by wildlife or lost to flooding, it is noted in Table #. Thirteen BV trap samples were collected which produced 1529 insect specimens, including 1440 bee specimens. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
Native bee species were sampled using blue vane (BV) traps. The sampling period was from May 2, 2020 - July 14, 2020. Sampling duration was 14-72 days. Sample duration was typically 14-18 days, with the exception of some sampling sites which experienced substantial flooding and traps could not be recovered safely until flooding subsided. Three BV traps were set at each of six camas sites. Food grade propylene glycol was used as a preservative in the traps. At each site, the contents of the three BV traps were pooled to produce a single sample. The contents of a sample were transferred to jars containing 95% ethanol. Where traps were stolen, vandalized, damaged by wildlife or lost to flooding, it is noted in the record. Thirteen BV trap samples were collected which produced 1529 insect specimens, including 1440 bee specimens.
| Study Extent | West Kootenay |
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Method step description:
- Pinned and labeled insect specimens prepared from samples preserved in alcohol.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Kootenay Native Plant Society |
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| Collection Identifier | KNPS |
| Parent Collection Identifier | KNPS |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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Additional Metadata
Funding provided by the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program to project: COL-F21-W-3304.
| Purpose | Public release of biodiversity data. |
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| Maintenance Description | Updated as necessary to improve taxonomic resolution. |
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.5886/krc8wu |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=knps-beesv1 |