Event
PhD Oral Defense: Patterns and Drivers of Terrestrial Arthropod Biodiversity in Northern Canada
Monday, February 23, 2015 10:00
Macdonald-Stewart Building
MS2-022, 21111 Lakeshore Road, St Anne de Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9, CA
PhD Oral Defense of Crystal Ernst, Natural Resource Sciences
The overarching goal of this thesis was to describe patterns of terrestrial arthropod biodiversity and community structure in northern Canada, and to explore the underlying drivers and mechanisms that are responsible for these patterns. The term “biodiversity” is used here in a broad sense that includes both taxonomic (TD) and functional (FD) diversity. Ground-dwelling arthropods, especially beetles (Coleoptera), were used as model taxa, and were collected using standardized methods from twelve locations in the three northernmost ecoclimatic zones of Canada.