Decline of Amateur Lepidoptera Collectors Threatens the Future of Specimen-Based Research
Decline of Amateur Lepidoptera Collectors Threatens the Future of Specimen-Based Research
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10.1093/biosci/biaa152
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发表时间：
2021-01-13
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影响因子：
10.1
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Cognato, Anthony, I
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作者：
Fischer, Erica E.;Cobb, Neil S.;Cognato, Anthony, I
美国的业余蝴蝶和蛾类收藏家比专业科学家获得了更多的鳞翅目标本。政府支持的大型数据库的出现，使得对业余收集这些昆虫的影响进行定量研究成为可能。我们回顾了自1800年以来鳞翅目昆虫收集的趋势，使用了100多万个已收集到公共数据库中的美国鳞翅目昆虫标本。我们的研究结果显示，在第二次世界大战后，标本的收集急剧上升，随后在20世纪90年代后期出现了短暂的高原和急剧下降。相比之下，2005年前后，向数据库小组提交意见的比率急剧上升。减少收购鳞翅目标本可能会损害当代和未来的生态，保护和进化假说的大规模至关重要的测试，特别是在昆虫种群的记录下降。我们认为，增加专业和社区科学家之间的合作可以缓解业余爱好者收集标本的下降。
Amateur butterfly and moth collectors in the United States have procured more Lepidoptera specimens than professional scientists. The advent of large government-supported database efforts has made a quantitative examination of the impact of amateur collecting of these insects possible. We reviewed trends in Lepidoptera collecting since 1800, using more than 1 million United States lepidopteran specimens that have been collected into public databases. Our findings show a steep rise in the collection of specimens after World War IL followed by a short plateau and sharp decline in the late 1990s. In contrast, the rate of observations submitted to database groups dramatically increased around 2005. Declining acquisition of Lepidoptera specimens may compromise critically important testing of contemporary and future ecological, conservation, and evolutionary hypotheses on a grand scale, particularly given documented declines in insect populations. We suggest that increasing collaboration between professional and community-based scientists could alleviate the decline in amateur-collected specimens.