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A malaise trap in a recently clearfelled coupe. |
Image: Darcy Vickers |
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Project summary:
Warra is a core site in the Asian Forest Ecosystems section of the International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY) program, and is a satellite site for further IBOY projects. Warra is the southernmost site of about 100 forest, coastal and freshwater research sites on a latitudinal transect extending from Siberia to Tasmania at which standard assessment protocols are being used to study global patterns of insect biodiversity.
The project, running to September 2003, aims to compile as complete a dataset as possible of the insect diversity within a 200 m2 plot, or series of plots totalling that area, within a specific forest type. At Warra the invertebrate plots within the silvicultural systems trial (SST) are being used for the project. Additional collection methods, such as window trapping, are being added to target additional insect guilds.
Methodology: Not available
Datasets: None available.
Publications: Bashford, R., Taylor, R., Driessen, M., Doran, N. & Richardson, A. (2001). Research on invertebrate assemblages at the Warra LTER Site.Tasforests 13: 109-118.
Powledge, F. (2002). A look back at the International Biodiversity Observation Year. BioScience 52: 1070-1079.
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