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Terrestrial invertebrates

Terrestrial invertebrates. Curtis Ewing Pete Oboyski George Roderick Rosemary Gillespie Elin Claridge April Yang Andrew Young Sylvain Charlat Marjorie Saillan. origins in NSF BS&I and NSF Wolbachia grants. PIs: R Gillespie, N Evenhuis, J Liebherr, D Polhemus, G Roderick

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Terrestrial invertebrates

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  1. Terrestrial invertebrates • Curtis Ewing • Pete Oboyski • George Roderick • Rosemary Gillespie • Elin Claridge • April Yang • Andrew Young • Sylvain Charlat • Marjorie Saillan

  2. origins in NSF BS&Iand NSF Wolbachia grants • PIs: • R Gillespie, N Evenhuis, J Liebherr, D Polhemus, G Roderick • N Davies, S Charlat, G Hurst • Targets: • Terrestrial arthropods of high islands of French Polynesia • Insects • Benefits: Assembled team of 20+ systematists

  3. Tohiea (photo: Tohiea summit, Moorea, with NSF-funded terrestrial arthropod survey team, l-r, J Liebherr, D Polhemus, G Roderick, C Ewing, J Petit)

  4. Conference BS & I workshop February 2009, Tahiti

  5. classroom outreach • George showed a video here of elementary school kids from Moorea collecting and identifying insects and spiders.

  6. http://essigdb.berkeley.edu/checklists/ Essig Museum website: checklists of previously published references to French Polynesia Arthropods

  7. http://biocode.berkeley.edu/

  8. Goals • Complete inventory • Endemics • Invasives • Human commensals • Prepare for demonstration studies • food web studies: spiders, lizards • mosquito feeding

  9. Plans and Targets • Range of habitats • Seasonality • Estimations of completeness--accumulation

  10. Expeditions • 2006 -2008 pilot studies • November 2008 (Curtis + Pete) • March 2009 (Pete) • May - June 2009 (Curtis + undergrad) • July 2009 (Curtis + undergrad) • September 2009 • Curtis, Pete, Menelaos Stavrinides (mites) • plus continued collecting at semi-permanent plots

  11. Sampling Plan • Habitat zonation • elevation • precipitation • vegetation • land use • Complementary Trapping • light traps, pitfalls, litter samples, hand collecting, etc. • species accumulation curves for habitats & traps

  12. Moorea habitats carved into sampling zones

  13. Specimens • 2000+++ specimens of insects & spiders to process • 2006 - 198 insect specimens added to BioCode Database • 2008 - 424 insect specimens added to BioCode Database • 2009 - 140 insect specimens added to BioCode Database (so far) • number of morphospecies total ? • 100+ moth morphospecies tissues in pipeline • 100+ other arthropods in tissue pipeline

  14. Challenges • Getting eventual IDs for morphospecies - not many experts for this part of the world • morphospecies tracking - managing thousands of specimens and their tissues, especially relating one person’s morphospecies to another’s (to avoid sequencing 100’s of the same) • year book / mug shot album to track what has been collected / processed so far • Storing specimens, tissues, extractions, etc.

  15. Bigger Picture Interests • Integration of taxa-teams • food webs • connectivity of habitats • baseline for future biocontrol efforts • Comparisons across taxa • tracking impacts of climate change • diversity patterns & conservation • invasive species • population structure / insipient speciation • phenology

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