Author: Pedro Cardoso
Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

cobra_finland_hankoniemi

Pedro Cardoso^1

1 University of Helsinki, Finnish Museum of Natural History, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

Corresponding author(s): Pedro Cardoso (pedro.cardoso@helsinki.fi)

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Resource Citation

Cardoso P (2017): cobra_finland_hankoniemi. v1.2. Biodiversity Data Journal. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.pensoft.net/resource?r=cobra_hankoniemi_finland&v=1.2

Abstract

During a field course on spider taxonomy and ecology at the University of Helsinki we had the opportunity to sample four plots with a dual objective of both teaching on field methods, spider identification and behaviour, and uncovering the spider diversity patterns found in the southern coastal forests of Hankoniemi. As an ultimate goal, this field course intended to contribute to a global project that intends to uncover spider diversity patterns worldwide (see http://biodiversityresearch.org/research/biogeography/). With that purpose, we followed a set of standardized methods and procedures that allow the comparability of obtained data with numerous other samples being conducted across all continents. By doing so we guarantee that this data will be reused for multiple future projects currently being implemented.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.pensoft.net/resource?r=cobra_hankoniemi_finland

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Order: Araneae
Common names: Spiders

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Hankoniemi, Finland
Coordinates: 59°47'60''N and 59°53'60''N Latitude; 23°0'0''E and 23°18'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: June 13, 2016 - June 26, 2016

Methods

Method step description: ...
Study extent description: Four 50x50m plots following a West to East transect were selected for sampling. All were in mixed coastal forests dominated by Norway spruce and Scots pine at sea level (0 - 10 m). Plots 1 and 2 were separated by about 100 m, plot 3 was 1.8 km and plot 4 was 5 km from the first.
Sampling description: We followed the COBRA - Conservation Oriented Biodiversity Rapid Assessment protocol at the four plots. This protocol, first proposed for Mediterranean spiders and very recently adapted for and being applied both on the tropics and islands involves night aerial sampling (4 hours/plot), day/night sweeping (4 hours/plot), day/night beating (4 hours/plot) and pitfall traps (48 traps distributed for 12 samples). In total it involves about 24 hours of effective work per site.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive cobra_finland_hankoniemi
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.pensoft.net/archive.do?r=cobra_hankoniemi_finland
Publication date of data: 2019-05-13
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2017-08-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset