Community-level invertebrate response to logging in British Columbia temperate rainforest

Data rescue intern: Nicholas Hivon

​UBC's Malcolm Knapp Research Forest is home to many long-term studies focused on the effects of timber harvesting and related human influences on the temperate rainforest ecosystem. Between the years of 1998-2008, pitfall traps were set out to monitor terrestrial invertebrate communities. Dr. John Richardson is studying response of these insects to various management strategies for timber harvesting. My role in the data rescue was to move the data from a variety of .xslx worksheets into a widely accessible format (.csv), clean and validate the data, and publish the dataset on Borealis. 
Dataset link:  https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/BNBWAT