[Pollinator] Fwd: Example of what NOT to do

[Peter Bernhardt]

The following paper was sent to me an hour ago by a larding insect
ecologist studying city and suburban bees.  It should be shared as well as
his comments.

Peter
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gerardo Camilo <camilogr at slu.edu>
Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:17 AM
Subject: Example of what NOT to do
To: 任宗昕 <renzongxin at mail.kib.ac.cn>, Peter Bernhardt <bernhap2 at slu.edu>,
Retha Meier <rmeier3 at gmail.com>, Ed Spevak <Spevak at stlzoo.org>, Paige Muniz
<pmuniz at slu.edu>, Rachel Brant <rbrant at slu.edu>, Justin Zweck <
jzweck at slu.edu>, urbanmapping at mindspring.com


To one and all,

here is a paper that John Ascher just forwarded on what not to do when
working on urban bees.  His main gripe, which I wholeheartedly agree, is
that they did not use proper taxonomy, even though the collections and
identifications were available.  Instead, they use barcode of life indices.


As I read the paper, I found that their sampling was rather limited and
biased.  Each city was sampled for a total of 81 person-hour per city! We
have sampled St. Louis for three times as much for each year of our
project.  Furthermore, there is no estimate of rarefaction (ie,
species-effort curve), thus making the results highly speculative.

Saludos!


-- 
Gerardo R Camilo, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor of Biology
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
   & International Studies
Conservation Fellow, St. Louis Zoo
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