Insect Population Dynamics on the Main Cropping System Experiment at the Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI (1989 to 2013)

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的LTER主站点（所有处理组）便已开展植栖昆虫的发生记录工作，演替样地与森林样地的相关记录则始于1993年。本研究的核心目标为表征一类代表高等昆虫营养级（即植食性昆虫捕食者）的类群的时空丰度与多样性特征。该昆虫数据库包含逾40万条记录，涵盖LTER主站点7个处理组各30个采样点的成虫计数数据，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。本次研究采用黄色粘虫板作为采样的标准方法，如采样规程所述，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