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Insect Data

The WDC for Paleoclimatology currently has 5 contributed data sets containing proxy data from insects.
Carabus nitens image by Peter Skidmore
Carabus nitens
image by Peter Skidmore

BugsCEP is a research and teaching aid for palaeoentomology, Quaternary entomology and ecology. As well as habitat and distribution data, it includes tools for climate and environmental reconstruction, and facilities for storing site based abundance/collection data. A variety of searching and reporting functions greatly augment the efficiency of beetle based research.

BugsCEP is built around a comprehensive database of beetle ecology and European fossil records which has been accumulated over the past 20 years. The latest version includes numerous non-beetle Quaternary taxa including flies, bugs and ants. It includes bibliographic references for all data.

The data has been provided by Phil Buckland (Umeå University, Sweden) and Paul Buckland (Bournemouth University, UK), and is available for free from http://www.bugscep.com/ or from the WDC Paleo.

BugsCEP will run on any Windows 2000 or XP machine (please download the approporiate version), but requires MS Excel for some of the advanced functions. The 2000 version may run on Windows NT4, but has not been tested. Download BugsCEP (Version 30 October 2007): Windows 2000 or Windows XP format. (Note: Large files, 53 MB). Phil Buckland's Umeå University thesis provides documentation for the database.

Chironomid data from lake cores from Canada have been contributed by Ian Walker (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada). These data are in zipped Tilia 2.0 files with accompanying forms. The sites available thus far are: Cabin Lake, BC; Hippa Lake, BC; Marion Lake, BC; Mike Lake, BC; Misty Lake, BC; Tugulnuit Lake, BC; Wood Lake, BC; Basswood Road Lake/Splan Pond, NB; and Brier Island Bog, NS. For data description Click Here.

Chironomid-inferred temperature reconstructions and data for the Abisko Valley, Northern Sweden, have been contributed by Dr. Isabelle Larocque, Institut National de Recherche Scientifique, Québec, text or Excel.

A database of modern North American Beetles (2 Mbytes), and fossil data from Alaska, have been contributed by Scott Elias (University of Colorado, now at University of London).

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