Hi,

 

I have popped into a couple of working group meetings in the past three weeks.  I am not sure I can attend meetings on a regular basis. My primary interest is two-fold; 1) want to extend SCAN’s ability to incorporate fields from arthropod projects that incorporate inventory/monitoring that DwC does not provide. The biggest use case involves bee/pollinator data sets. We are starting to incorporate files from ecological studies on bees/pollinators. All of the cases so far would benefit from adopting a HC set of fields, however the form (e.g., DwC extensions). I am also interested in monitoring projects and pitfall data (see below); and 2) I do want to provide feedback to make HC as robust and effective as possible.

 

Bee/Pollinator Projects

https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=275 Drought and Habitat Fragmentation on Native Bee Assemblages

https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=270 Plant–pollinator community assembly across wildfire gradients

https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=272 Predicting changes in bee assemblages following state transitions

https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=278 Maine State Museum - Brianne Du Clos Pollinator Study

Mosquito Monitoring (i.e., repeated measures)

https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=181 VectorBase (Bioinformatics Resource for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens)

Ground-Dwelling Arthropods (pitfalls)

Scores of data in SCAN were generated from pitfall studies. Currently, there is no way to compare across datasets (i.e. define “effort” so numbers are expressed in common currency). Sand Brantley is the only publication I know where effort was defined in order to compare spider assemblages from two separate elevation gradients (attached). We might be able to retroactively populate “effort” metrics for over a million records and a standard to guide the process would be very helpful.

 

 

Cheers,

Neil

 

 

 

Neil S. Cobb,

Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN)

Biodiversity Outreach Network

 

Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011

Neil.Cobb@nau.edu        neilscobb@gmail.com                                   

(Mobile Office) 928-607-4075               

Virtual Office:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82515787249

ORCID  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6155-9444

 

Do you know where all 200,000 North American arthropod species live?