Alberta Parks Report - Survey of Alberta Lepidoptera Project Update (2022)

The purpose of this project is to survey, develop and update species lists for Lepidoptera present in Alberta’s unique parks and protected areas located in all the various ecoregions of Alberta. Data collected from these parks is used to update Alberta’s provincial species list that was published by Pohl et al. in 2010. Also, data collected will be used to continually evaluate the S-rank status of each species found in Alberta aligning with the NatureServe guidelines.

During 2022 we were able to visit several of Alberta’s parks and protected areas. The visited parks included the following protected areas: Dillberry Provincial Park, Wainwright Dunes Ecological Reserve, Sir Winston Churchill Provincial Park and Kleskun Hills Natural Area.

Overall we volunteered 33 days totaling 169 hours surveying Lepidopterans in parks and protected areas. An additional 350 hours were spent identifying, curating, evaluating species at risk rankings and developing species lists.

To learn more about this project and to see the report visit: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Lepidoptera-of-Alberta-2

Publicado el diciembre 11, 2022 03:44 MAÑANA por mothmaniac