insect and spider from ArcDyn. insect and spider metagenomes

The environmental samples come from a time series of yellow-pitfall-trap samples collected as part of the BioBasis monitoring program at the Zackenberg Research Station, located in the High-Arctic zone of northeast Greenland (74°28’ N; 20°34’ W). Spiders and insects have been collected weekly throughout the summer from 1996 onwards from various tundra habitats. We use the subset of samples collected weekly in three yellow pitfall traps in a mesic heath habitat, from 1997 to 2013 to develop a new and efficient protocol to probe the temporal patterns in community structure at species-level correlates to climatic response. We expect this project to significantly further our understanding of how arctic ecosystems are structured today, how they are changing in time and how this will affect how they work.