The Caddisfly Collective: Methods of assessing Trichoptera diversity on a continental scale with community scientists
Amidst a global biodiversity crisis, collecting data at large spatial scales can illuminate patterns. Community science can be an avenue to reduce costs, broaden the scope of sampling, and, most importantly, connect with members of the public who are interested in and impacted by long-term ecologica...
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Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut
2023-10-01
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| author | Kelly M. Murray-Stoker Shannon J. McCauley |
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| description | Amidst a global biodiversity crisis, collecting data at large spatial scales can illuminate patterns. Community science can be an avenue to reduce costs, broaden the scope of sampling, and, most importantly, connect with members of the public who are interested in and impacted by long-term ecological change. In 2021, we formulated a community science project – The Caddisfly Collective. Our goal was to study the regional influences on the responses of stream caddisfly (Trichoptera) communities to urbanization in the United States and Canada. Community scientists helped us achieve this goal by collecting caddisflies across a wider geographic scale than we could have reached on our own. To build The Caddisfly Collective, we recruited participants through social media and other online forums. We mailed collecting kits with a USB-powered ultraviolet LED light, a collecting container, bottles of preservative, data sheets, and collection labels to each participant; participants mailed back specimens and completed data sheets. There was a 79.7% rate of follow-through from sign-up to collection. During the project, 63 participants set up light-traps near urban and non-urban streams in seven different North American geographic regions, collecting adult caddisflies at 141 sites across the United States and Canada. Most sites were in the Midwest region, while the fewest sites were in the Far North region. Urban areas, classified by land cover data, comprised ~29% of total sites. We hope the details of our project can help other interested scientists implement similar projects in the future, especially focused on ecologically important caddisfly communities. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-86bb21b51ad8413aa17de55a34e9d0922025-08-20T03:37:53ZdeuSenckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches InstitutContributions to Entomology2511-64282023-10-0173215116010.3897/contrib.entomol.73.e109951109951The Caddisfly Collective: Methods of assessing Trichoptera diversity on a continental scale with community scientistsKelly M. Murray-Stoker0Shannon J. McCauley1University of Toronto MississaugaUniversity of Toronto MississaugaAmidst a global biodiversity crisis, collecting data at large spatial scales can illuminate patterns. Community science can be an avenue to reduce costs, broaden the scope of sampling, and, most importantly, connect with members of the public who are interested in and impacted by long-term ecological change. In 2021, we formulated a community science project – The Caddisfly Collective. Our goal was to study the regional influences on the responses of stream caddisfly (Trichoptera) communities to urbanization in the United States and Canada. Community scientists helped us achieve this goal by collecting caddisflies across a wider geographic scale than we could have reached on our own. To build The Caddisfly Collective, we recruited participants through social media and other online forums. We mailed collecting kits with a USB-powered ultraviolet LED light, a collecting container, bottles of preservative, data sheets, and collection labels to each participant; participants mailed back specimens and completed data sheets. There was a 79.7% rate of follow-through from sign-up to collection. During the project, 63 participants set up light-traps near urban and non-urban streams in seven different North American geographic regions, collecting adult caddisflies at 141 sites across the United States and Canada. Most sites were in the Midwest region, while the fewest sites were in the Far North region. Urban areas, classified by land cover data, comprised ~29% of total sites. We hope the details of our project can help other interested scientists implement similar projects in the future, especially focused on ecologically important caddisfly communities.https://contributions-to-entomology.arphahub.com/article/109951/download/pdf/ |
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| title | The Caddisfly Collective: Methods of assessing Trichoptera diversity on a continental scale with community scientists |
| title_full | The Caddisfly Collective: Methods of assessing Trichoptera diversity on a continental scale with community scientists |
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| title_short | The Caddisfly Collective: Methods of assessing Trichoptera diversity on a continental scale with community scientists |
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