Terrestrial Arthropod Survey - Fiji

斐济陆地节肢动物调查在Neal Evenhuis博士的指导下，向主教博物馆授予了一项为期两年的赠款，用于调查斐济群岛精选的生物多样性陆地节肢动物(昆虫和相关生物)，并通过网络和同行评审的科学期刊向广大用户提供调查中的信息(包括数据库、核对清单和科学论文)。斐济是太平洋最独特的岛群之一，因此为帮助了解太平洋南部岛群的生物地理动态及其与周围陆块动物群的关系提供了机会。这些岛屿的生物多样性陆地节肢动物成分的调查结果可作为研究萨摩亚、新喀里多尼亚和其他地区类似动物群的比较实例。施林格基金会每年提供25,000美元的伙伴关系资金，以增加NSF的资金，该项目将显著增加我们对斐济群岛独特的陆地节肢动物的了解，并向研究人员提供收集的标本。这些研究人员将对新物种进行分类和识别，并在同行评议的论文中发表对它们的描述。据估计，在这项研究过程中，将有500多种新的苍蝇、甲虫、水虫、蚂蚁、黄蜂和蜘蛛被专家发现和描述。分类后，在该项目期间收集的标本将被建立数据库，并发送给世界各地的专家，这些专家同意进一步识别和描述他们在收集的材料中发现的新物种。这些信息将发表在同行评议的科学期刊上，这些信息还将被添加到关于斐济陆地节肢动物的所有出版物清单和斐济陆地节肢动物名称的完整清单中，这两个清单都将通过网络、电子出版物和硬拷贝出版物提供。在通过南太平洋区域环境方案(SPREP)与PACINET的伙伴关系增加资金的情况下，前往斐济进行调查以收集其专业生物的研究专家将通过定期讲习班对国内学生进行培训。这些研讨会将包括如何收集、分类和识别这项研究中发生在斐济的各种生物多样性昆虫和相关节肢动物的实践教学。还将举行更多的社区会议，向村民介绍该项目，并将作为科学家和村民之间互动的媒介，使双方都能相互学习斐济的自然遗产。

Fiji Terrestrial Arthropod SurveyA two-year grant has been awarded to the Bishop Museum under the direction of Dr. Neal Evenhuis to survey selected biodiverse terrestrial arthropods (insects and related organisms) of the Fiji islands and make the information from the survey (which will include databases, checklists, and scientific papers) available to a wide user community through the web and peer-reviewed scientific journals. Fiji is one of the most unique island groups in the Pacific and as such offers opportunities for helping understand the biogeographic dynamics that have taken place in the southern island groups in the Pacific and their relationship to the faunas of surrounding land masses. The results of the surveys of the biodiverse terrestrial arthropod elements of these islands can be used as comparative examples when studying similar faunas of Samoa, New Caledonia, and other areas. With $25,000 per year partnership funding from the Schlinger Foundation to augment funds from NSF, this project will significantly help increase our knowledge of the unique terrestrial arthropod fauna of the Fiji islands and make available to researchers the specimens collected. These researchers will sort and identify new species and publish descriptions of them in peer-reviewed papers. It is estimated that there will be over 500 new species of flies, beetles, aquatic bugs, ants, wasps, and spiders that will be discovered and described by specialists during the course of this study. After sorting, specimens collected during this project will be databased and sent to specialists worldwide who have agreed to further identify and describe new species they find in the material collected. This information will be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and the information also added to a list of all publications concerning Fiji terrestrial arthropods and a complete checklist of names of Fiji terrestrial arthropods, both lists of which will be made available via the web, electronically, and hard copy publication. With added funding through a partnership with PACINET via the South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP), research specialists who travel to Fiji to conduct surveys to collect organisms in their specialty will train in-country students through periodic workshops. These workshops will include hands-on teaching of how to collect, sort, and identify the various biodiverse insects and related arthropods of this study that occur in Fiji. Further community meetings will be held to inform villagers about the project and will be used as a medium for interaction between scientists and villagers in that both parties can learn from each other about the natural heritage of Fiji.