Insect Population Dynamics on the Main Cropping System Experiment at the Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI (1989 to 2019)

Dataset Abstract Plant dwelling insect occurrence in the LTER main site (all treatments) of the KBS-LTER has been recorded since 1989 and in the successional and forest sites since 1993. The effort has focused on characterizing the temporal and spatial abundance and diversity of a set of insects representative of a higher order insect trophic level, the herbivore predators. The insect database contains more than 400,000 records and consists of counts of adult insects of fourteen species of Coccinellidae, one species of Chrysopidae, and one species of Lampyridae from 30 sample sites in each of the seven treatments in the LTER Main Site. The standard method used to measure these organisms is a yellow sticky trap. Sampling is conducted weekly during the growing season as described in the sampling protocol. original data source http://lter.kbs.msu.edu/datasets/26

数据集摘要 自1989年起，KBS-LTER（凯洛格生物站长期生态研究站点）主实验区（所有处理组）的植栖昆虫发生情况已被持续记录；1993年起，该站点的演替系列站点与森林站点的相关数据采集工作正式启动。本研究的核心目标为表征一类代表高阶昆虫营养级的昆虫类群——植食性昆虫捕食者的时空丰度与物种多样性。该昆虫数据库累计收录超40万条记录，数据来源于LTER主实验区7个处理组各30个采样点的成虫计数结果，涉及14种瓢虫科（Coccinellidae）昆虫、1种草蛉科（Chrysopidae）昆虫以及1种萤科（Lampyridae）昆虫。本次调查采用黄色粘虫板作为采集此类昆虫的标准方法。依据采样规程，在植物生长季内每周开展一次采样工作。原始数据来源：http://lter.kbs.msu.edu/datasets/26