Kevan (1970)
General information
This study
sought to determine the importance of insect-flower relations to
both plants and insects in a high arctic community as well as the
degree to which some of the more common arctic plants are dependent
on insects for pollination and reproduction. The research was conducted
in 1967 at Hazen Camp (81 49'N, 71 18' W) near Lake Hazen on Northern
Ellesmere Island, the most northerly island of the Canadian Arctic
Archipelago.
Data type
The authors
recorded their data by counting the number of individual flower
visitors caught on each plant species. The total number of individuals
collected on each plant species provide a rough estimate of the
level of visitation that each species received. Data are presented
as an interaction frequency matrix, in which cells with positive
integers indicate the frequency of interaction between a pair of
species, and cells with zeros indicate no interaction.
Source
Kevan, P. G. 1970. High arctic insect-flower visitor
relations: the inter-relationships of arthropods and flowers at Lake
Hazen, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. Ph.D. thesis
thesis, University of Alberta.
Data files
Text format:
interaction
matrix (no species names)
Excel format:
interaction
matrix (includes species lists)
