[Pollinator] [beemonitoring] Fwd: Example of what NOT to do [1 Attachment]

[Peter Kevan]

But it is so terribly modrern! 

Where are the vouchers? 

Peter 

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From: "Peter Bernhardt bernhap2 at slu.edu [beemonitoring]" <beemonitoring-noreply at yahoogroups.com> 
To: "任宗昕" <renzongxin at mail.kib.ac.cn>, "Wendy Grimm" <wagrimm at tpg.com.au>, "IRENE PALMER" <i.a.palmer at talk21.com>, "Graham Pyke" <Graham.Pyke at uts.edu.au>, "Bee United" <beemonitoring at yahoogroups.com>, "Pollinator List-serv" <pollinator at lists.sonic.net> 
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Subject: [beemonitoring] Fwd: Example of what NOT to do [1 Attachment] 

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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 
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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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