Inventory of Lepidoptera Larvae and their Parasitoids in a Tropical Dry Forest (Costa Rica)

[400829] Janzen该项目正在对哥斯达黎加西北部瓜纳卡斯特保护区热带干燥森林中所有种类的毛毛虫、它们的寄主植物关系以及它们的拟寄生物进行生物多样性调查。调查结果旨在为生态学、系统学、行为生理学和进化的基础研究以及生物多样性勘探、教育、生态旅游和病虫害防治等方面的应用提供依据。总体目标是建立这一生物系统，使其成为科学和哥斯达黎加社会对复杂的热带荒地进行非破坏性可持续利用的一个组成部分。

9400829 Janzen This project is an ongoing biodiversity inventory of all species of caterpillars, their host plant relationships, and their species of parasitoids in thae tropical dry forest of the Guanacaste Conservation Area in northwestern Costa Rica. The inventory pesults are designed to make caterpillars and their trophic relationships with food plants and parasitoids available to basic studies in ecology, systematics, behavior physiology and evolution, and to applied users in biodiversity prospecting, education, ecotourism and pest management. The overall goal is to establish this biological system as an integral part of the non-destructive sustainable use of a complex tropical wildland by science and by Costa Rican society.