TY - JOUR T1 - Expedited Assessment of Terrestrial Arthropod Diversity by Coupling Malaise Traps with DNA Barcoding JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/192732 SP - 192732 AU - JR deWaard AU - V Levesque-Beaudin AU - SL deWaard AU - NV Ivanova AU - JTA McKeown AU - R Miskie AU - S Naik AU - K Perez AU - S Ratnasingham AU - CN Sobel AU - JE Sones AU - C Steinke AU - AC Telfer AU - AD Young AU - MR Young AU - EV Zakharov AU - PDN Hebert Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/25/192732.abstract N2 - Monitoring changes in terrestrial arthropod communities over space and time requires a dramatic increase in the speed and accuracy of processing samples that cannot be achieved with morphological approaches.The combination of DNA barcoding and Malaise traps allows expedited, comprehensive inventories of species abundance whose cost will rapidly decline as high-throughput sequencing technologies advance.Aside from detailing protocols from specimen sorting to data release, this paper describes their use in a survey of arthropod diversity in a national park that examined 20,000 specimens representing 2200 species.These protocols can support arthropod monitoring programs at regional, national, and continental scales. ER -