Augustana College Entomology Collection (AUGIE-ENT)

This collection represents the research of Tierney Brosius and her undergraduate students. She is entomologist with special interests in insect conservation, urban ecology, and cultural entomology. She has an active ongoing research program that currently focuses on ground beetle diversity within urban landscapes. The goal is to understand how mesophication (lack of naturally occurring fire) and urbanization interact to influence forest ecosystem composition and structure at multiple trophic levels. Undergraduate students from Augustana have been directly involved in the data collection of the projects and have had the opportunity to present results at local and national scientific meetings.

Contact: Tierney Brosius (tierneybrosius@augustana.edu)

Home Page: https://www.augustana.edu/academics/faculty-directory/tierney-brosius

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 120bf21c-d066-48ee-b4c0-880596ea22e4

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial International)

Rights Holder: Augustana College

• 701 occurrence
• 470 (67%) georeferenced
• 11 (2%) with images
• 651 (93%) identified to species
• 3 families
• 17 genera
• 26 species
• 28 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)