Arthropod Biodiversity in a Lowland Tropical Rainforest III

该续签合同将进行La Selva节肢动物（ALAS）调查的第三阶段；第一阶段和第二阶段也由生物调查和清单计划与美国国家科学基金会国际计划合作资助。随着这一阶段的结束，ALAS将足够接近完成，以便可以对ALAS发现的生物体进行其他类型的研究（专题和生态）。自1991年以来，该项目在哥斯达黎加建立了科学基础设施（物理和人力资源方面），与哥斯达黎加国家生物多样性研究所建立了牢固的伙伴关系，建立了在La Selva收集的84,000个节肢动物标本的数据库并进行了编制，设计并发布了一个标本级数据库应用程序（Biota）。该项目的结果将作为WWW信息资源（http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html）发布。这一阶段的资金将支持继续进行物种发现，将标本分发给各种专家，有效利用已有的基础设施，以及创新地使用新兴技术以提高数据捕获和传播的效率。

9706976 Hartshorn This renewal award is to conduct Phase III of the Arthropods of La Selva (ALAS) survey; Phases I and II were also funded by the Biotic Surveys & Inventories Program in partnership with the International Program of NSF. As this Phase is finished, ALAS will be sufficiently near completion that other types of studies (monographic and ecological) can be conducted on the organisms discovered by ALAS. Since 1991, the project has built scientific infrastructure (both physical and in terms of human resources) in Costa Rica, formed strong partnerships with the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad of Costa Rica, databased and prepared 84,000 specimens of arthropods collected at La Selva, and designed and published a specimen-level database application (Biota). Results of the project are being published as WWW information resources (http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html). This phase of funding will support continued species discovery, distribution of specimens to a variety of specialists, productive use of the infrastructure that is already in place, and innovative use of emerging technologies to increase efficiency of data capture and dissemination.