A Terrestrial Annelida Biodiversity Survey of the Philippines: Part II

菲律宾陆地环节动物生物多样性调查，第二部分作为一项生物多样性调查，该项目旨在发现、描述和记录菲律宾的蚯蚓和其他环节动物蠕虫，菲律宾是一个迫切需要数据支持保护工作的生物多样性热点国家。蚯蚓是重要的生态系统工程师，无论它们出现在哪里。该项目将对中部地区（当地称为米沙鄢）和该国南部地区（包括棉兰老岛和邻近小岛）的古老低地和山地雨林的剩余地区进行实地考察。在这些旅行中，研究小组将系统地收集环节动物标本，以获得这些生物的每一个物种，同时捕捉它们在各种栖息地和微栖息地的生态和分布的基本信息。实验室活动将包括标本管理，形态学检查，描述新物种的出版物的准备和数据库建设。这项活动预计将发现多达200个新的蚯蚓物种和其他环节动物群体的几个新物种。由于许多菲律宾稀有的小型哺乳动物依赖蚯蚓为食，这些生物的信息将是宝贵的，以更好地了解这些哺乳动物的保护所需的条件。研究的电子产品将包括一个可在网上搜索的菲律宾环节动物数据库、一个大型图像档案、识别和研究辅助工具以及一个群岛蚯蚓的交互式检索表，包括常见的外来物种。该数据库将成为全球生物多样性信息系统的一部分，欢迎其他研究人员为该系统作出贡献。该项目将为保护菲律宾迅速消失的独特生物群提供宝贵的信息，有助于修订东南亚蚯蚓的分类，并提供菲律宾陆地水蛭和enchytraeid oligochaeros的新知识。它将发现并向国际社会提供一组具有重要生态意义的土壤动物的多样性和生态。本次调查将为分析南太平洋和东亚地区历史上的生物交流提供新的资料。对了解菲律宾生物区系发展所涉及的地质和生物扩散事件也应该有重大影响。我们收集的适合DNA提取的组织将使未来的项目能够澄清蚯蚓中物种最丰富的群体之一的关系。该项目包括培训第一位菲律宾博士。第二名学生获得奖学金和职业发展。其他成果是应用环节动物生物多样性科学的机会：1）作为本地有机废物堆肥蠕虫进行评估的候选物种名单，这可以促进可持续发展和解决环境和社会问题，而无需求助于外来入侵物种; 2）我们的分布数据成为药物发现的来源目录，其中菲律宾部门的领导。科技部对此非常感兴趣。

AbstractSam JamesDEB 0426071A terrestrial Annelida biodiversity survey of the Philippines, Part IIAs a biodiversity survey, the project seeks to discover, describe and document the earthworms and other annelid worms of the Philippines, a biodiversity hotspot nation in urgent need of data to support conservation efforts. Earthworms are important ecosystem engineers everywhere they occur. This project will conduct field trips to the remaining areas of old-growth lowland and montane rainforest in the central region (known locally as the Visayas) and southern parts of the country, including Mindanao and small neighboring islands. On these trips the research team will collect annelid specimens in a systematic effort to obtain every species of these organisms present, while capturing basic information on their ecology and distributions over various habitats and microhabitats. Laboratory activity will consist of specimen curation, morphological examination, the preparation of publications describing new species, and database building. This activity is expected to discover up to 200 new species of earthworms and several more each of the other annelid groups. Since many Philippine rare small mammals depend on earthworms for food, information on these organisms will be valuable to better understanding of the conditions needed for conservation of these mammals. The electronic products of the research will include a web-searchable database on Philippine Annelida, a large archive of images, identification and study aids, and an interactive key to the earthworms of the archipelago, including common exotic species. This database will be part of a global earthworm information system to which other researchers are welcome to contribute. This project will provide information valuable to conservation of The Philippines' rapidly vanishing unique biota, contribute towards revising the classification of Southeast Asian earthworms, and provide new knowledge of terrestrial leeches, and enchytraeid oligochaetes of the Philippines. It will discover and render accessible to the world community the diversity and ecology of an ecologically important group of soil fauna. This survey will provide new data valuable to analyzing the history biotic interchanges in the South Pacific and East Asian regions. There should also be significant impact on understanding of the geological and organism dispersal events involved in the development of the biota of the Philippines. Our collection of tissues suitable for DNA extraction will enable future projects to clarify relationships within one of the most species-rich groups of earthworms. This project includes the training of the first Philippine Ph.D. recipient in earthworm syste matics and career development for a second student. Other outcomes are opportunities for applied annelid biodiversity science: 1) a list of candidate species for evaluation as native organic waste composting worms, which could promote sustainable development and solution of environmental and social problems without recourse to invasive foreign species; 2) Our distribution data become a catalog of sources for drug discovery, in which the leadership of the Philippine Dept. of Science and Technology is strongly interested.