Pitfall Traps (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Pitfall Traps

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Pitfall traps are a common way to sample arthropods; these yellow traps have been used at Zackenberg to build the largest and longest-standing arthropod monitoring program in the Arctic.

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Toke Høye

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