Ants of the Adirondack Mountains High Peaks 2016

<para>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.</para> </section> </abstract> <keywordSet> <keyword>abundance</keyword> <keyword>ants</keyword> <keyword>biodiversity</keyword> <keyword>distribution</keyword> <keyword>inventories</keyword> <keywordThesaurus>LTER controlled vocabulary</keywordThesaurus> </keywordSet> <keywordSet> <keyword>populations</keyword> <keywordThesaurus>LTER core area</keywordThesaurus> </keywordSet> <keywordSet> <keyword>Harvard Forest</keyword> <keyword>HFR</keyword> <keyword>LTER</keyword> <keyword>USA</keyword> <keywordThesaurus>HFR default</keywordThesaurus> </keywordSet> <intellectualRights> <section> <para>This dataset is released to the public under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (No Rights Reserved). Please keep the dataset creators informed of any plans to use the dataset. Consultation with the original investigators is strongly encouraged. Publications and data products that make use of the dataset should include proper acknowledgement.</para> </section> </intellectualRights> <licensed> <licenseName>Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal</licenseName> <url>https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html</url> <identifier>CC0-1.0</identifier> </licensed> <distribution> <online> <url function="information">https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf350</url> </online> </distribution> <coverage> <geographicCoverage> <geographicDescription>Adirondack Mountains NY. Coordinates based on WGS84 datum.</geographicDescription> <boundingCoordinates> <westBoundingCoordinate>-78.0</westBoundingCoordinate> <eastBoundingCoordinate>-73.7</eastBoundingCoordinate> <northBoundingCoordinate>+44.4</northBoundingCoordinate> <southBoundingCoordinate>+44.1</southBoundingCoordinate> <boundingAltitudes> <altitudeMinimum>600</altitudeMinimum> <altitudeMaximum>1800</altitudeMaximum> <altitudeUnits>meter</altitudeUnits> </boundingAltitudes> </boundingCoordinates> </geographicCoverage> <temporalCoverage> <rangeOfDates> <beginDate> <calendarDate>2016</calendarDate> </beginDate> <endDate> <calendarDate>2016</calendarDate> </endDate> </rangeOfDates> </temporalCoverage> <taxonomicCoverage> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>family</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Formicidae</taxonRankValue> <commonName>ants</commonName> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Camponotus</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>sp.</taxonRankValue> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Formica</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>sp.</taxonRankValue> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Lasius</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>sp.</taxonRankValue> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Leptothorax</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>sp.</taxonRankValue> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>genus</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>Myrmica</taxonRankValue> <taxonomicClassification> <taxonRankName>species</taxonRankName> <taxonRankValue>sp.</taxonRankValue> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicClassification> </taxonomicCoverage> </coverage> <maintenance> <description> <para>complete</para> </description> </maintenance> <contact scope="document"> <positionName>Information Manager</positionName> <organizationName>Harvard Forest</organizationName> <address scope="document"> <deliveryPoint>324 North Main Street</deliveryPoint> <city>Petersham</city> <administrativeArea>MA</administrativeArea> <postalCode>01366</postalCode> <country>USA</country> </address> <phone phonetype="voice">(978) 724-3302</phone> <electronicMailAddress>hf-im@lists.fas.harvard.edu</electronicMailAddress> </contact> <publisher scope="document"> <organizationName>Harvard Forest</organizationName> <address scope="document"> <deliveryPoint>324 North Main Street</deliveryPoint> <city>Petersham</city> <administrativeArea>MA</administrativeArea> <postalCode>01366</postalCode> <country>USA</country> </address> <phone phonetype="voice">(978) 724-3302</phone> <phone phonetype="fax">(978) 724-3595</phone> <onlineUrl>https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu</onlineUrl> </publisher> <methods> <methodStep> <description> <section> <title/> <para>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).</para> </section> </description> </methodStep> </methods> <project> <title>Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Harvard Forest

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(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 17883 d804b4a8d48d7069ce5f88fe6639adee 1 \r\n column , 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 199915 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