Systematics and ecology of diptera

双翅目系统学和生态学

• 批准号: 183986-2007
• 负责人: Wheeler, Terry
• 金额: $ 2.29万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=423003
• 关键词: Systematics; ecology; diptera

Names are the currency of biodiversity. Knowing the name of an organism not only allows one to identify it, but provides access to all other knowledge about that organism. Although we share the planet with millions of species of insects, only a fraction of those species has scientific names, and the percentage of species for which we have reasonable ecological and evolutionary knowledge is vanishingly small. The primary objective of my research program is the systematics of flies (Diptera), one of the four largest insect orders on Earth, and Canada's most species-rich group of insects. We describe new species in a range of Diptera families and provide identification tools that allow other workers to attach names to specimens.

名字是生物多样性的货币。知道一种生物的名字不仅可以让人们识别它，还可以让人们获得关于这种生物的所有其他知识。尽管我们与数以百万计的昆虫共享这个星球，但其中只有一小部分物种有学名，而我们对生态和进化有一定了解的物种所占的比例越来越小。我的研究项目的主要目标是苍蝇（双翅目）的系统学，苍蝇是地球上四大昆虫目之一，也是加拿大物种最丰富的昆虫群。我们描述了一系列双翅目科的新物种，并提供了识别工具，使其他工作人员能够在标本上附加名称。