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We conducted the first investigation of insect community responses to post-fire seeding on public rangelands by comparing the composition of insect communities at burned-and-seeded (treatment) and burned-and-unseeded (control) sagebrush-steppe ecological sites in southwestern Idaho. Insect communities in burned areas were compared to unburned (reference) areas. We collected insect and vegetation data within and around the burn perimeter of the 2007 Murphy Fire (652,209 ha), 2002 Big Crow Fire (1,134 ha), and 1995 Clover Fire (78,102 ha) in southwestern Idaho, USA. We captured and identified 24,862 insects from 130 families at the three study sites in 2010. We used a nadir photogrid and point-centered quarter method...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Ecology,
Idaho,
Owyhee,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States, All tags...
Wildlife Biology,
biota,
community ecology,
environment,
invasive species,
pollinators,
terrestrial ecosystems,
wildlife, Fewer tags
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In this study, the U.S. Geological Survey investigated the use of insects as bioindicators of climate change in sagebrush steppe shrublands and grasslands in the Upper Columbia Basin. The research was conducted in the Stinkingwater and Pueblo mountain ranges in eastern Oregon on lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. We used a “space-for-time” sampling design that related insect communities to climate and weather along elevation gradients. We analyzed our insect dataset at three levels of organization: (1) whole-community, (2) feeding guilds (detritivores, herbivores, nectarivores, parasites, and predators) and (3) orders within nectarivores (i.e., pollinators). This dataset contains information about...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Climatology,
Ecology,
Oregon,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Wildlife Biology, All tags...
biota,
climate change,
community ecology,
environment,
insects,
pollinators, Fewer tags
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