Quantifying Biodiversity: Experience with Parataxonomists and Digital Photography in Papua New Guinea and Guyana

By Y. Basset, V. Novotný, S. Miller, R. Pyle. 2000

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Short-term effects of canopy openness on insect herbivores in a rain forest in Guyana (2001, background): “Trained assistants carried out most of the sampling ( Basset et al . 2000 ).”
Invertebrates in the canopy of tropical rain forests How much do we really know? (2001, background): “Further, recent advances in digital photography and computing power are likely to help greatly in this task (Novotny et al. 1997; Basset et al. 2000).”
Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest (2002, background): “were studied at four study sites in a diverse lowland rainforest (>150 woody species per hectare) near Madang in Papua New Guinea in 1994–2000 (ref”
Conservation and biological monitoring of tropical forests: the role of parataxonomists (2004, background): “As the name implies and was originally defined (Janzen 1991; Janzen et al. 1993; Basset et al. 2000), 165 Parataxonomists and biological monitoring © 2004 British Ecological Society, Journal of Applied Ecology, 41, 163-174 parataxonomists stand 'at the side' of taxonomists and the taxonomic process.”
Discriminatory power of different arthropod data sets for the biological monitoring of anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests (2004, background): “Properly used, this strategy yields higher numbers of statistical replicates that are, accordingly, more representative of the system studied (Basset et al. 2000).”
Host specialization of leaf-chewing insects in a New Guinea rainforest (2002, methodology): “In the laboratory, each insect was provided with fresh leaves of the plant species it was collected from and kept on it until the insect fed or died (Basset et al. 2000).”
Biodiversity inventory and informatics in Southeast Asia (2010, background): “More collecting, done differently The use of trained technicians, often known as ‘parataxonomists,’ has long been offered as a solution to the low absolute numbers of taxonomists (Oliver and Beattie 1993; Basset et al. 2000; Pfeiffer and Uril 2003; Baraloto et al. 2007).”
Costa Rica's Area de Conservación Guanacaste: A long march to survival through non-damaging biodevelopment (2000, background): “(See h t tp : / /www.b i shop .hawa i i . o rg /b i shop /na t s c i / ng / ngpara.html and http://www.bishopmuseum.org/bishop/ natsci/guyana/LOGGING4.HTM and Novotny et al 1998, Basset et al 1999.)”
Parataxonomy vs. taxonomy in biodiversity studies – pitfalls and applicability of ‘morphospecies’ sorting (2004, background): “Eventually parataxonomists (or ‘biological diversity technicians’, as they were called in Australia) became involved in preliminary sorting of samples to RTUs (Cranston and Hillman 1992; Basset et al. 2000).”