Assessing the efficacy of higher‐taxon approach for ant species surveys to improve biodiversity inventories

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Luiz Pereira Souza ◽  
Itanna Oliveira Fernandes ◽  
Donat Agosti ◽  
Norman F. Johnson ◽  
Fabrício Beggiato Baccaro
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Inventories

scholarly journals Baseline Assessments of Wildlife Biodiversity Within Selected Areas of Central Visayas, Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
RP Jose ◽  
WA Aureo ◽  
CI Narido ◽  
TD Reyes Jr ◽  
MB Sarnowski
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
Diversity Index ◽  
Population Trends ◽  
Species Richness And Diversity ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
High Diversity ◽  
Areas Of Protection

A comprehensive inventory of faunal biodiversity was conducted within three Key Biodiversity Areas of Central Visayas. Mt. Bandilaan Natural Park (MBNP), Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park (BTLNP), and Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape (RSPL). Three primary wildlife groups were surveyed: bats, birds and amphibians. Species diversity and population trends were then analyzed to assess areas of biodiversity importance. RSPL generally had the highest species richness and diversity index while MBNP consistently had the lowest. When pooled. The surveyed areas resulted in a high diversity index and rate of endemicity showing the importance of multiple areas of protection. These findings can be utilized to prioritize habitat protection as well as to serve as a baseline information for future biodiversity inventories. J. Biodivers. Conserv. Bioresour. Manag. 2020, 6(2): 27-34

scholarly journals The California environmental DNA “CALeDNA” program

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel S Meyer ◽  
Emily E Curd ◽  
Teia Schweizer ◽  
Zack Gold ◽  
Dannise Ruiz Ramos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Dna ◽  
Conservation Genomics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Science Framework ◽  
Community Complexity ◽  
Community Science ◽  
Threaten Species ◽  
The University

AbstractGlobal change is leading to habitat shifts that threaten species persistence throughout California’s unique ecosystems. Baseline biodiversity data provide opportunities for ecosystems to be managed for community complexity and connectivity. In 2017, the University of California Conservation Genomics Consortium launched the California Environmental DNA (CALeDNA) program, a community science initiative monitoring California’s biodiversity through environmental DNA (eDNA)—DNA shed from organisms through fur, mucus, spores, pollen, etc. Community scientists collect soil and sediment samples, then researchers analyze the eDNA in the samples and share results with the public. The results are catalogues of thousands of organisms per sample, ranging from microbes to mammals. The CALeDNA website presents biodiversity inventories in a platform designed for the public and researchers alike, as well as user-friendly analysis tools and educational modules. Here, we present CALeDNA as a scalable community science framework that can harmonize with future biodiversity research and education initiatives.

scholarly journals On specimen killing in the era of conservation crisis – A quantitative case for modernizing taxonomy and biodiversity inventories

PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. e0183903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick O. Waeber ◽  
Charlie J. Gardner ◽  
Wilson R. Lourenço ◽  
Lucienne Wilmé
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Inventories

Three new species, new records and notes on the nursery-web spider genus Architis in Brazil (Araneae: Pisauridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1815 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADALBERTO J. SANTOS ◽  
ANDRÉ A. NOGUEIRA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Records ◽  
The State ◽  
Female Specimen ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Brazilian Amazonia ◽  
Web Spider ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories ◽  
Three New Species

Three new species of the nursery-web spider genus Architis Simon, 1898 are described and illustrated; all collected during spider biodiversity inventories in the Brazilian Amazonia. Architis gracilis Santos sp. nov. is based on a male and A. catuaba Santos sp. nov. on a female specimen, both from the state of Acre, western Brazilian Amazonia. Architis neblina Santos & Nogueira sp. nov. is described from eight females from the Pico da Neblina National Park, state of Amazonas. New records from Brazil are listed for Architis brasiliensis (Mello-Leitão, 1940), A. helveola (Simon, 1898), A. maturaca Santos, 2007 and A. tenuipes (Simon, 1898). The presence of cuspule-like spines on male coxae I, once known only for Architis tenuis Simon, 1898 and A. cymatilis Simon, 1898, are reported for A. maturaca. A remarkable dimorphism in the epigynum of Architis capricorna Carico, 1981 is described based on specimens from southern Brazil. An updated identification key for species of Architis is provided.

scholarly journals Biodiversity inventories and conservation of the marine fishes of Bootless Bay, Papua New Guinea

BMC Ecology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua A Drew ◽  
Charlene L Buxman ◽  
Darcae D Holmes ◽  
Joanna L Mandecki ◽  
Augustine J Mungkaje ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Marine Fishes ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories

scholarly journals Constitution of ethnozoological semantic domains: meaning and inclusiveness of the lexeme "insect" for the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dídac Santos-Fita ◽  
Eraldo M Costa-Neto ◽  
Alexandre Schiavetti
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories ◽  
Specific Definition ◽  
Semantic Domains

This article deals with the sociocultural construction of the 'insect' and 'animal' domains by the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca (municipality of Santa Terezinha, Bahia State, Brazil). The fieldwork was performed from September 2006 to July 2007. The data was obtained by means of open-ended interviews of 74 individuals of both genders whose ages ranged from 4 to 89 years old. The results show that the interviewees were unable to say in an accurate and secure way a specific definition for each domain. Depending on how a given animal is culturally interpreted, it could belong to the semantic domain 'animal' or 'insect', being representative of one or another group. However, in practice, such a distinction between these two semantic domains appears as something tenuous and ambiguous. Researchers who carry out biodiversity inventories should pay attention to the ethnocategory 'insect' during their studies, especially if these involve the participation of traditional community representatives

scholarly journals A pervasive denigration of natural history misconstrues how biodiversity inventories and taxonomy underpin scientific knowledge

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 291-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenton P. D. Cotterill ◽  
Wilhelm Foissner
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories

Community Biodiversity Inventories as Entry Points for Local Ecosystem Stewardship in a South African Communal Area

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1030-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christo Fabricius ◽  
Taryn Pereira
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories ◽  
Communal Area ◽  
Local Ecosystem

scholarly journals Completing Linnaeus’s inventory of the Swedish insect fauna: only 5,000 species left?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Ronquist ◽  
Mattias Forshage ◽  
Sibylle Häggqvist ◽  
Dave Karlsson ◽  
Rasmus Hovmöller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Species Abundance ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Latitudinal Gradients ◽  
Malaise Trap ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
Incidence Data ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories ◽  
Taxonomic Research

AbstractDespite more than 250 years of taxonomic research, we still have only a vague idea about the true size and composition of the faunas and floras of the planet. Many biodiversity inventories provide limited insight because they focus on a small taxonomic subsample or a tiny geographic area. Here, we report on the size and composition of the Swedish insect fauna, thought to represent roughly half of the diversity of multicellular life in one of the largest European countries. Our results are based on more than a decade of data from the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative and its massive inventory of the country’s insect fauna, the Swedish Malaise Trap Project The fauna is considered one of the best known in the world, but the initiative has nevertheless revealed a surprising amount of hidden diversity: more than 3,000 new species (301 new to science) have been documented so far. Here, we use three independent methods to analyze the true size and composition of the fauna at the family or subfamily level: (1) assessments by experts who have been working on the most poorly known groups in the fauna; (2) estimates based on the proportion of new species discovered in the Malaise trap inventory; and (3) extrapolations based on species abundance and incidence data from the inventory. For the last method, we develop a new estimator, the combined non-parametric estimator, which we show is less sensitive to poor coverage of the species pool than other popular estimators. The three methods converge on similar estimates of the size and composition of the fauna, suggesting that it comprises around 33,000 species. Of those, 8,600 (26%) were unknown at the start of the inventory and 5,000 (15%) still await discovery. We analyze the taxonomic and ecological composition of the estimated fauna, and show that most of the new species belong to Hymenoptera and Diptera groups that are decomposers or parasitoids. Thus, current knowledge of the Swedish insect fauna is strongly biased taxonomically and ecologically, and we show that similar but even stronger biases have distorted our understanding of the fauna in the past. We analyze latitudinal gradients in the size and composition of known European insect faunas and show that several of the patterns contradict the Swedish data, presumably due to similar knowledge biases. Addressing these biases is critical in understanding insect biomes and the ecosystem services they provide. Our results emphasize the need to broaden the taxonomic scope of current insect monitoring efforts, a task that is all the more urgent as recent studies indicate a possible worldwide decline in insect faunas.

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