NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Goulet, Henri
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The research plan is to collect specimens of as many species (named or not) of the wasp subfamily Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to get recent and properly preserved specimens for DNA barcoding and taxonomic resolution. The goal is to know more about the diversity of these wasps and to be able to compare the recently wasp fauna with re-identified specimens sampled in the 1950’s. To achi...

Principal Investigator: Currie, Douglas
Licensed Year(s): 2002 2000
Summary: This study will be a comprehensive collecting programme that will provide baseline information about aquatic-insect composition along the Horton River. The survey will also provide baseline information about aquatic insect composition, which may be used to monitor changes in water quality over time. The survey will last 3 1/2 weeks as the research team travels by canoe along the Horton River. T...

Principal Investigator: Schwert, Donald P.
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1992
Summary: The sample of arctic-alpine ground-beetles will be collected under rocks and by pitfall traps (dixie cups placed in 8 cm diameter drilled holes) in the tundra habitat. All rocks will be replaced exactly and pitfall trap holes refilled with their soil plugs. No chemicals will be used in any of the trapping or collecting. Specimens will be analysed using DNA techniques which include RLPF's and PC...

Principal Investigator: Ring, Richard A.
Licensed Year(s): 1993 1992 1990 1987
Summary: As part of a long term study, I will continue to examine the biology of arctic and subarctic insects. Information will be collected on insect distributions as well as insect adaptations to living in environments with extremely cold winters and short summers. Studies on insect communities in the north may be good indicators of global climate change since they are short-lived species with limited a...

Principal Investigator: Taylor, John S.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher and his team will collect specimens of bees that belong to the subgenus Evylaeus (Family Halictid), which are small "ant-like" bees sometimes called "sweat bees." The researcher would like to determine how they are related to the European species, which, unlike the Evylaeus, are social in their behaviour. This study may shed some light on the evolution of social behaviour in bees....

Principal Investigator: DeBruyn, Adrian
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investigate the biology of predaceous insects in terrestrial and freshwater habitats. An inventory of predaceous insects will be conducted through trapping and collecting. Their prey and habits will also be identified....

Principal Investigator: Comtois, Paul
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will study the behavior of pollinating insects (bees) in ecosystems dominated by plants of the blueberry family (Ericacees). They will investigate competition between flowering plants syncronized for the same insect pollinators. Most of their work will be conducted on Herschel Island. Minimal study will be conducted near Tuktoyaktuk near their base camp at Polar Continental Shelf Pr...

Principal Investigator: Furniss, Malcolm
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: to determine if these two spruce beetle species are distinct; to compare biology, host tree relationships, genetics, and anatomical features of these two species (one is Eurasian and one is North American)...

Principal Investigator: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To study and collect insects and mites along the Dempster Highway from the Yukon border to Inuvik and in the northern Richardson Mountains west of Inuvik....

Principal Investigator: Ring, Richard A.
Licensed Year(s): 1985
Summary: To continue research on the ecological, physiological and biochemical aspects of insect freezing tolerance and supercooling abilities....