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Spider records from four wildland parks in northeastern Alberta

Description

Several wildland parks and two ecological reserves have recently been established in the northeast corner of Alberta (Figure 1). Colin-Cornwall Lakes Fidler-Greywillow, La Butte Creek and Maybelle River Wildland Parks are located in the Canadian Shield Natural Region. Egg Island and Athabasca Dunes Ecological Reserves are also located in that Natural Region. Birch Mountains, Marguerite River and Richardson River Dunes Wildland Parks are within the Boreal Forest Natural Region (Alberta Environmental Protection 1998). These wildland parks contain numerous and important examples of Alberta's biodiversity. Much of it is poorly understood or unknown, particularly the invertebrate fauna. The spider fauna is no exception. As Aitchison and Sutherland (2000) state, "…information on the composition and functioning of the boreal forest arachnid community [in Canada] remains sketchy". The spider specimens that were collected during this survey are the first for these wildland parks of northeastern Alberta.

Updated

May 1, 2002

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Colin-Cornwall Lakes Wildland Provincial Park ecological surveys provincial parks spiders

Title and publication information

Type
Report
Extent

34 pages

Frequency

Once

Publisher / Creator Information

Publisher

Community Development (1992-2006)

Contributor

Nordstrom, Wayne R.

Contributor

Buckle, Donald J.

Place of Publication

Edmonton

Resource Dates

Date Created

2002-05-01

Date Added

2015-12-02T19:01:17.241409

Date Modified

2002-05-01

Date Issued

2002-05-01

Audience information

Identifiers

NEOS catalogue key

2877586

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Contact

Contact Name

Environment and Parks