Arthropod Biodiversity in a Lowland Tropical Rainforest III

9706976 Hartshorn此更新奖是进行第三阶段的节肢动物的拉塞尔瓦（ALAS）调查;第一阶段和第二阶段也由生物调查清单计划与NSF的国际计划合作资助。随着这一阶段的完成，ALAS将充分接近完成，可以对ALAS发现的生物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（物质和人力资源），与哥斯达黎加的国家生物多样性研究所建立了强有力的伙伴关系，建立了在拉塞尔瓦收集的84 000个节肢动物标本的数据库并制作了这些标本，设计并出版了一个生物学级数据库应用程序（生物群）。 该项目的成果作为万维网信息资源发表（http：//viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html）。 这一阶段的资金将用于支持持续的物种发现，向各种专家分发标本，有效利用现有基础设施，以及创新地使用新兴技术，以提高数据采集和传播的效率。

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.