Odonata monitoring of Haliburton Highlands Land Trust properties: fauna and protocols

Title

Odonata monitoring of Haliburton Highlands Land Trust properties: fauna and protocols

Author

Ryan Hill

Host Organization

Haliburton Highlands Land Trust, Greg Wickware

Supervising Faculty

David Beresford, Biology

Date

2020

Location of Document

Online

Area

Haliburton County

Subject

Environmental Science, Wildlife Biology

Abstract

The following report has been written to assist Haliburton Highlands Land Trust (HHLT) in initiating an Odonata monitoring program on their properties. A list of 111 recorded species for Haliburton County along with a few other expected species (Poropat, 2020) make up what HHLT could expect to see on their properties during monitoring (Poropat, personal communication, September 24, 2020). Serving as a further foundation for a future program, records from a number of databases and reports were mined for observations of odonates on and around HHLT properties, resulting in lists for each property. Lastly, I provide some recommendations and considerations for establishing an Odonata monitoring program at HHLT, based on reviews of available protocols and published literature.

Publisher

Trent University

Files

Reference

Ryan Hill, Odonata monitoring of Haliburton Highlands Land Trust properties: fauna and protocols, Trent University, 2020