Insect Data

All data in the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archive are contributed by research scientists. Contributors and references are available in readme or data file headers. Here is a Sample Data Citation.

The WDC currently has three contributed data sets containing proxy data from insects.

BUGS, a database of British and Northern European Coleoptera, including information on habitat, distribution, and fossil occurrence, along with their bibliographic references, has been contributed by Paul Buckland (Sheffield University), Phil Buckland (Umeå University) and Jon Sadler (Birmingham University). The database was updated in 2003 and is available for download in Microsoft Access2000 ( bugs2000v5.exe) and stand-alone ( bugs2000runtime.exe) formats. Older versions on CDROM can be obtained at the BUGS Homepage. Both versions require MS Excel (or Excel Viewer) for viewing the raw abundance data, but ecology and distribution data can be seen without it. Installation and brief user instructions can be found in the BUGS Users Guide.

Chironomid data from lake cores from British Columbia have been contributed by Ian Walker (Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada). These data are in zipped Tilia 2.0 files with accompanying forms. The sites available thus far are: Hippa Lake; Marion Lake; Mike Lake; Misty Lake; Basswood Road Lake/Splan Pond; and Tugulnuit Lake.

A database of modern North American Beetles (2 Mbytes), and fossil data from Alaska, have been contributed by Scott Elias (University of Colorado, now at University of London).

Contributing Data

Obtaining Data at the WDC

• Download Insect Data
• BUGS 2003 Version 5
• Chironomid Data
• North American Beetles
• Alaska Fossil Faunal Data
• Search by Contributor

Other Data Archives

• BUGS Homepage and Quaternary Bibliography of Entomology
• BUGS MCR - program for the reconstruction of paleotemperatures from fossil insect (Coleoptera) assemblages.
• FAUNMAP
• Ice Age Paleoecology - Scott Elias