Principal Investigator:Layberry, Ross Licensed Year(s):
2005
Summary:
Butterflies are easily studied and can provide valuable information of changes occuring in northern ecosystems - including climate changes, and habitat changes. Many areas of the NWT have few studies on insects; therefore, this inventory work can inprove the baseline information of these species.
The main investigator will travel with other NWT biologists to remote study sites and near comm...
Principal Investigator:Currie, Douglas Licensed Year(s):
2002
2000 Summary:
The primary focus of the study is the numbers and kinds of insects that live in the Thelon River at its valley. A previous study in 2000 on the Horton River revealed a number of species that are not represented in Alaska and the Yukon. Collections from t...
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:McLean, D. M. Licensed Year(s):
1978
Summary:
A continuation of an investigation into the existence of California encephalitis virus in mosquitoes....
Principal Investigator:McLean, D. M. Licensed Year(s):
1976
Summary:
1) To define the prevalence of arboviruses pathogenic for man, especially California encephalitis virus, 2) to determine quantitive relationships between the incidence of arboviral infection in mosquito larvae, adult mosquitoes and vertebrate reservoirs of arboviral virus....