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Ants of the Adirondack Mountains High Peaks 2016
Aaron
Ellison
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4151-6081
Grace
Barber
Researcher
Julia
Goren
Researcher
Kayla
White
Researcher
2023
English
The ants of the Adirondack Mountains are rarely sampled, and it was of interest to inventory their diversity as part of a general biodiversity survey of the Adirondack Park in New York State. A first set of collections were done in 2016 in the “High Peaks” region (mountains over 1200 meters (4000 feet) high). Ants were collected haphazardly from nests encountered by Adirondack Mountain trail stewards during June and July 2016 when they were doing regular botanical inventories and trail maintenance. Eleven species were collected, with the cold-climate species Formica neorufibarbis and Camponotus herculeanus accounting for 75% of the nests encountered. The species composition of ants in the Adirondack High Peaks is similar to that of other alpine and subalpine habitats in adjacent New England.
abundance
ants
biodiversity
distribution
inventories
LTER controlled vocabulary
populations
LTER core area
Harvard Forest
HFR
LTER
USA
HFR default
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Adirondack Mountains NY. Coordinates based on WGS84 datum.
-78.0
-73.7
+44.4
+44.1
600
1800
meter
2016
2016
family
Formicidae
ants
genus
Camponotus
species
sp.
genus
Formica
species
sp.
genus
Lasius
species
sp.
genus
Leptothorax
species
sp.
genus
Myrmica
species
sp.
complete
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Harvard Forest
324 North Main Street
Petersham
MA
01366
USA
(978) 724-3302
hf-im@lists.fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Forest
324 North Main Street
Petersham
MA
01366
USA
(978) 724-3302
(978) 724-3595
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu
Ants were collected haphazardly in 2016 by Adirondack trail stewards during routine field visits and maintenance activities across the Adirondack High Peaks. When ant nests were encountered, 1 – 5 individual workers were collected from the nest into a single alcohol-filled vial. Identification of specimens was done at the Harvard Forest by Aaron Ellison. All specimens are stored in alcohol at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ).
Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research
Harvard Forest
324 North Main Street
Petersham
MA
01366
USA
(978) 724-3302
(978) 724-3595
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu
https://ror.org/059cpzx98
pointOfContact
The Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program examines ecological dynamics in the New England region resulting from natural disturbances, environmental change, and human impacts.
National Science Foundation LTER grants: DEB-8811764, DEB-9411975, DEB-0080592, DEB-0620443, DEB-1237491, DEB-1832210.
hf350-01-adk-ants-2016.csv
adirondack ants 2016
hf350-01-adk-ants-2016.csv
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https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p35/hf350/hf350-01-adk-ants-2016.csv
vial
vial number
vial number
NA
missing value
date
date specimen collected
YYYY-MM-DD
1 day
NA
missing value
state
state
new york
New York
NA
missing value
county
county
essex
Essex
NA
missing value
locality
name of mountain or other locality where ant was
collected
name of mountain or other locality where ant was collected
NA
missing value
zone
alpine, subalpine, above or below treeline, krummholz, or forest
type
zone
latitude
latitude in decimal degrees
degree
0.00001
real
NA
missing value
longitude
longitude in decimal degrees
radian
0.00001
real
NA
missing value
masl
elevation in meters above sea level, if recorded
number
1
natural
NA
missing value
subfamily
subfamily of ant
subfamily of ant
NA
missing value
genus
genus of ant
genus of ant
NA
missing value
species
species of ant
species of ant
NA
missing value
speccode
species code
aphpic
Aphaenogaster picea
camher
Camponotus herculeanus
camnov
Camponotus novaeboracensis
campen
Camponotus pennsylvanicus
forase
Formica aserva
forneo2
Formica neorufibarbis
lasame
Lasius americanus
lasaph
Lasius aphidicolus
lassub2
Lasius subumbratus
lepcan
Leptothorax canadensis
myrala
Myrmica alaskensis
myrdet
Myrmica detritinodis
myrsmi
Myrmica AF-smi (“smithana”)
collector
collector
Grace Barber
Grace Barber
Adirondack Mountain Stewards
Adirondack Mountain Steward
NA
missing value
120
hf350-02-adk-ants-notes-2016.pdf
field notes
hf350-02-adk-ants-notes-2016.pdf
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f07a0ba40d1ff4d607f42bff5e1e3e3e
none
pdf
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p35/hf350/hf350-02-adk-ants-notes-2016.pdf
document
biodiversity
short-term measurement
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf147
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf323