1. Terrestrial invertebrates Curtis Ewing Pete Oboyski George Roderick Rosemary Gillespie Elin Claridge April Yang Andrew Young Sylvain Charlat Marjorie Saillan

2. origins in NSF BS&I and NSF Wolbachia grants PIs: R Gillespie, N Evenhuis, J Liebherr, D Polhemus, G Roderick N Davies, S Charlat, G Hurst Targets: Terrestrial arthropods of high islands of French Polynesia Insects Benefits: Assembled team of 20+ systematists

3. Tohiea (photo: Tohiea summit, Moorea, with NSF-funded terrestrial arthropod survey team, l-r, J Liebherr, D Polhemus, G Roderick, C Ewing, J Petit)

4. Conference BS & I workshop February 2009, Tahiti

5. classroom outreach George showed a video here of elementary school kids from Moorea collecting and identifying insects and spiders.

6. Essig Museum website: checklists of previously published references to French Polynesia Arthropods http://essigdb.berkeley.edu/checklists/

7. http://biocode.berkeley.edu/

10. Goals Complete inventory Endemics Invasives Human commensals Prepare for demonstration studies food web studies: spiders, lizards mosquito feeding

11. Plans and Targets Range of habitats Seasonality Estimations of completeness-- accumulation

12. Expeditions 2006 -2008 pilot studies November 2008 (Curtis + Pete) March 2009 (Pete) May - June 2009 (Curtis + undergrad) July 2009 (Curtis + undergrad) September 2009 Curtis, Pete, Menelaos Stavrinides (mites) plus continued collecting at semi-permanent plots

13. Sampling Plan Habitat zonation elevation precipitation vegetation land use Complementary Trapping light traps, pitfalls, litter samples, hand collecting, etc. species accumulation curves for habitats & traps

14. Moorea habitats carved into sampling zones

15. Specimens 2000+++ specimens of insects & spiders to process 2006 - 198 insect specimens added to BioCode Database 2008 - 424 insect specimens added to BioCode Database 2009 - 140 insect specimens added to BioCode Database (so far) number of morphospecies total ? 100+ moth morphospecies tissues in pipeline 100+ other arthropods in tissue pipeline

16. Challenges Getting eventual IDs for morphospecies - not many experts for this part of the world morphospecies tracking - managing thousands of specimens and their tissues, especially relating one person’s morphospecies to another’s (to avoid sequencing 100’s of the same) year book / mug shot album to track what has been collected / processed so far Storing specimens, tissues, extractions, etc.

17. Integration of taxa-teams food webs connectivity of habitats baseline for future biocontrol efforts Comparisons across taxa tracking impacts of climate change diversity patterns & conservation invasive species population structure / insipient speciation phenology Bigger Picture Interests