Angelo Coast Range Reserve

07 Sep, 06 AM - 14 Sep, 04 AM

The collecting of minute soil arthropods under and inside fallen Douglas-fir trees in an advanced state of decay aims to complement the taxon sampling for ongoing phylogenetic studies. These studies presently concern the myriapod subtaxa Symphyla and Pauropoda as well as the apterygote insect orders Diplura, Archaeognatha, and Zygentoma. The sampling at the Angelo Reserve focuses on coarse wood chewers and comminutors as well as myrmecophilous specimens. They are collected by hand at selected sites and extracted from soil samples in the lab with a Berlese-Tullgren-apparatus. Specimens obtained are fixed for molecular and anatomical studies. Data to be raised will be used for cladistic analyses, in particular to clarify the effects of miniaturization on the internal anatomy.

Visit #10703 @Angelo Coast Range Reserve

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Under Project # 7108 | Research

soil arthropod diversity

research_scientist - Free University of Berlin

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Markus Koch Sep 7 - 14, 2006 (8 days)
Markus Koch Sep 7 - 14, 2006 (8 days)

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Computer lab 2 Sep 7 - 14, 2006
HQ House 2 Sep 7 - 14, 2006
Lab 2 Sep 7 - 14, 2006