A5064762507- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Insect Pheromone Research and Control
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
- Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
University of California, Berkeley
2008-2019
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
2011-2017
Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
2002-2004
Pacific Biosciences (United States)
2004
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2004
University of Hawaii System
2004
United States Geological Survey
2002-2004
Legacy data from natural history collections contain invaluable and irreplaceable information about biodiversity in the recent past, providing a baseline for detecting change forecasting future of on human-dominated planet. However, these are often not available formats that facilitate use synthesis. New approaches needed to enhance rates digitization quality improvement. Notes Nature provides one such novel approach by asking citizen scientists help with transcription tasks. The initial...
The digitization of biocollections is a critical task with direct implications for the global community who use data research and education. Recent innovations to involve citizen scientists in increase awareness value biodiversity specimens; advance science, technology, engineering, math literacy; build sustainability digitization. In support these activities, we launched first citizen-science event focused on specimens: Worldwide Engagement Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio). During...
Aim We evaluated how an elevation gradient affects: (1) the availability of food required by a specialist seed‐eater, Loxioides bailleui Oustalet (Drepanidinae), or palila, and hence distribution this endangered Hawaiian bird, (2) alien threats to populations, their primary foods, dry‐forest habitat, strategies for conservation. Location worked throughout subalpine forest that encircles Mauna Kea Volcano, Hawai`i Island, but we focused our studies mainly on western slope between 2000 3000 m...
Contrary to predictions based on host-range testing, the gorse pod moth (GPM) infests pods of several exotic Genisteae and Loteae species, as well target weed Ulex europaeus, throughout New Zealand. The original tests were conducted moths collected in southern England; however, offspring Portuguese also released We investigated whether failure predict non-target attack was because (a) a cryptic species accidentally introduced; (b) asynchrony between oviposition period GPM flowering results...
The recently completed Odonata database for California consists of specimen records from the major entomology collections state, large outside previous literature, historical and recent field surveys, enthusiast group observations. includes 32,025 total 19,000 unique 106 species dragonflies damselflies, with spanning 1879–2013. Records have been geographically referenced using point-radius method to assign coordinates an uncertainty radius locations. In addition describing techniques used in...
New genetic diagnostic approaches have greatly aided efforts to document global biodiversity and improve biosecurity. This is especially true for organismal groups in which species diversity has been underestimated historically due difficulties associated with sampling, the lack of clear morphological characteristics, and/or limited availability taxonomic expertise. Among these methods, DNA sequence barcoding (also known as "DNA barcoding") by extension, meta-barcoding biological...
The emergence rate of new plant diseases is increasing due to novel introductions, climate change, and changes in vector populations, posing risks agricultural sustainability. Assessing managing future disease depends on understanding the causes contemporary historical events. Since mid-1990s, potato growers western United States, Mexico, Central America have experienced severe yield loss from Zebra Chip responded by insecticide use suppress populations insect vector, psyllid, Bactericera...
While bees are critical to sustaining a large proportion of global food production, as well pollinating both wild and cultivated plants, they decreasing in numbers diversity. Our understanding the factors driving these declines is limited, part, because we lack sufficient data on distribution bee species predict changes their geographic range under climate change scenarios. Additionally lacking adequate behavioral anatomical traits that may make either vulnerable or resilient human-induced...