Muscoid Diptera biodiversity

粘液双翅目生物多样性

• 批准号: 311576-2012
• 负责人: Savage, Jade
• 金额: $ 1.53万
• 依托单位: Bishop's University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=548451
• 关键词: Muscoid; Diptera; biodiversity

The current biodiversity crisis is a global phenomenon, and certain regions such as the arctic are at most immediate risk from rapid environmental changes. Consequently, knowledge of past and present biodiversity resources is essential to our ability to evaluate the extent of recent changes in biological communities and forecast future trends. While insects dominate most terrestrial ecosystems in terms of abundance and species richness, knowledge of their diversity and ecology lags well behind that of plants and vertebrates, especially in northern habitats. In Canada, as in many other countries, this knowledge gap is primarily due to overwhelming species numbers largely unmatched by taxonomic expertise, a situation that seriously hampers our ability to assess the impacts of environmental changes on the diversity, distribution and community composition of both invasive and native components of our entomological fauna.

当前的生物多样性危机是一种全球现象，北极等某些地区正面临着快速环境变化的最直接风险。因此，了解过去和现在的生物多样性资源对我们评估生物群落近期变化的程度和预测未来趋势的能力至关重要。虽然昆虫在丰度和物种丰富度方面主导大多数陆地生态系统，但对其多样性和生态学的了解远远落后于植物和脊椎动物，特别是在北部栖息地。在加拿大，与许多其他国家一样，这种知识差距主要是由于物种数量过多，在很大程度上无法与分类学专业知识相匹配，这种情况严重妨碍了我们评估环境变化对昆虫动物群的入侵和本地组成部分的多样性、分布和群落组成的影响。