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Beauty on the front porch

iBOL benefits from Dick Wilson’s passion for moths iBOL collaborators come in many guises. There are museum curators, university professors, field researchers, post-docs and grad students. And then there’s Richard Wilson, also known as the Moth Man of Bay Center, Washington, one of the growing band of “citizen scientists” whose work is helping to drive [...]


Darwin’s butterflies?

Spectacular species radiation in the Caribbean Pensoft Publishers News Release In one of the first taxonomic revisions of Neotropical butterflies that uses DNA barcoding, Andrei Sourakov (University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History) and Evgeny Zakharov (University of Guelph, Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario) uncovered a spectacular degree [...]


WG 1.9 – Terrestrial Bio-Surveillance

Chair: Daniel Janzen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Vice-chair: Brian Fisher, California Academy of Sciences, USA Most of Earth’s biodiversity involves arthropods that live on land. The immense species count, estimated at five million, has impeded acquisition of the detailed information needed to guide decisions on habitat protection in the face of expanding agricultural and forestry [...]


Daniel Janzen

Costa Rica representative Chair, WG1.9 – Terrestrial Biosurveillance Professor & Technical Advisor, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica Web: Guanacaste Conservation Area Email: djanzen@sas.upenn.edu


Brian Fisher

Madagascar representative Vice-chair, WG1.9 – Terrestrial Bio-surveillance Associate Curator and Chair of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Web: Brian Fisher’s Profile Email: bfisher@calacademy.org


News

Enviro Outreach 2012 targets invasive species
Toyota expedition’s third barcode blitz in South Afric...Read more
Daniel Janzen honoured with BBVA Foundation award
“Pioneer of the science of restoration ecology” ...Read more

Events

FISH-BOL World Conference

June 12-14, 2012, Yeosu, Korea

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Third European Conference for the Barcode of Life

September 17, 2012, Brussels, Belgium

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Features

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Barcoding Bibliography
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For Enthusiasts

Beauty on the front porch
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