Planning
Not all participants can access the field every day as this will impact our
study sites and is logistically difficult. In short, participants will spend
half-time in the field, and half-time processing and pre-sorting samples in the
laboratory.
As far as possible the program of each participant as been planned as to
include, out of a sequence of 4 days:
Day 1: Field work: own program
Day 2-3: laboratory
Day 4: field work: own program/individual program/help with other
programs
Tentative planning: scientific activities
SCIENTIFIC PLANNING IBISCA
September -October 2003
Updated 03 09 03
Month SEPTEMBER
Weeks
39
Days 20 21 22
1 CANOPY ACCESS
Helicopters SAN/Helix Craft
Crane
Bubble
Raft site FAE
Raft site BET
Raft site HAB
Ikos
2 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
Vegetation - canopy
Vegetation - undestorey
Light traps (night)
Sticky traps
FITs
Beating
Microarthropods
Fogging
Winkler
Pitfall traps
Social insects - canopy
Lure traps - canopy
Individual programs
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Ikos
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Chronologically field work concentrates on crane, bubble, raft and ikos
N.B. Late surveys of FITs = B2: 9 Nov; C3: 10 Nov; R3: 12 Nov, No Ikos
R2
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R3
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Tentative planning: participants
SCIENTIFIC PLANNING IBISCA
September -October 2003
Updated 03 09 03
Month SEPTEMBER
Weeks
39
Days 20 21 22
OCTOBER
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26 27 28
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29 30
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NOVEMBER
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11
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3 PARTICIPANTS
Henri-Pierre Aberlenc
Hector Barrios
Yves Basset
Patrick Basset
Lukas Cizek
Bruno Corbara
Gianfranco Curletti
Alain Dejean
Raphael K. Didham
Laura L. Fagan
Andreas Floren
Dawn Frame
Francis Hallé
Rhett Harrison
Andres Hernandez
Kevin Jordan
Roger Kitching
Maurice Leponce
Margaret Lowman
Enrique Medianero
Frode Odegaard
Jerome Orivel
Catherine J. Potvin
Servio Ribeiro
Yves Roisin
David Roubik
Mirna Samanbiego
Jürgen Schmidl
Alexey Tishechkin
Neville Winchester
S. Joseph Wright
Laurent Pyot
Eric Bauhaus
Gilles Ebersolt
Thierry Aubert
Dany Cleyet-Marrel
Noui Baiben
Stephane Bechet
Olivier Pascal
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Boat BCI afternoon - in (night)
Cars City (day)
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N.B. The technical staff has been booked as all person being present each day, which is not going to be the case
Field Work
Field work is going to be challenging, no need to hide this. Please be prepared.
Rains will be very frequent: please bring a raincoat or equivalent AND a good
umbrella. Pack all your equipment in plastic bags, use water-resistant paper
for notes, etc. There is no malaria at our field sites or on BCI but chiggers and
ticks are common. Bring insect repellent and medicine against insect bites.
Bring your own climbing gear (harness, jumars, etc.) as to be independent and
efficient. Other useful items: torch and batteries, water bottles (we will use
tap water from BCI for drinking in the field).
In essence: try to be self-sufficient!
Tree-climbing practice
A spot near the crane garita will be designated to test single rope equipment
and to practice tree-climbing, if needed.
Details from Y. Basset, M. Samaniego or B. Corbara.
In doubt, please consult with the professional tree climbers:
T. Aubert, N. Baiben & S. Bechet.
Seasonal replication
Seasonal replication will be discussed between participants during the
first phase of the project. The following is open to discussion:
Vegetation: not needed, but refining measurements at ground plots may be possible
Sticky traps: at crane sites, at least. Needs to leave guide ropes for transects, which could be re-activated also
at other sites.
FITs: same remarks as for sticky traps
Beating: possible at crane sites
Fogging: possible at all sites
Light traps: possible at crane sites
Microarthropods: possible at all sites if guide ropes are left in place
Winkler: not possible at the same sites, but at surrogate sites.
Pitfall traps: possible at all sites
Individual programs: depends on the interest and program
List of focal taxa
Some flexibility may be required as the result of particular sampling programs may be uncertain
Acari
3 taxa
Araneae
Salticidae
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Cerambycidae
Curculionidae
Subfam Chrysomelidae 1
Subfam Chrysomelidae 2
Eucnemidae/Lissomidae & Melandryidae/Salpingidae
Cleridae
One subfamily of Chrysomelidae
Staphylinidae
Cassidinae (Ptilodactlylidae)
Endomychidae/Erotylidae/Tenebrionidae
Histeridae
Pselaphinae
Nitidulidae
Carabidae
Hymenoptera Mymaridae
Chalcididae
Eurytomidae
Eulophidae
Formicidae
Vespidae
Braconidae
Apidae: Meliponini
Apidae: Euglossini
Agaonidae
Sphecidae
Chrysididae/Dryinidae/Mutillidae
Bethylidae
Isopoda
Isopoda
Isoptera
Isoptera
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Pyralidae
Collembola
Collembola
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Mycetophilidae
Syrphidae
Diptera 3
Drosophilidae
Diptera 4
Myriapoda
Myriapoda
Odonata
Odonata
Tardigrada
Tardigrada
Membracoidea
Fulgoroidea
Reduviidae
Thysanoptera Phlaeothripidae
Hemiptera
Varia
Gall makers
Focal taxa: summary
By phylogeny (orders)
No.
Coleoptera
Diptera
Hemiptera
Hymenoptera
Lepidoptera
Acari
Other insect orders
Other non-insect orders
15
65
3
13
2
3
4
4
By life history (guilds)
No.
Herbivores
Predators
Parasitoids
Scavengers
Ants
13
12
7
13
12
1
Suggested extraction of material
Taxa
Sticky
Beating
Light
Fogging
FIT
Micro
Winkler
Pitfall
Effort
Buprestidae
Cerambycidae
Membracoidea
Fulgoroidea
Dolichopodidae
Curculionidae
Geometridae
Pyralidae
Subfam Chrysomelidae 1
Subfam Chrysomelidae 2
Eucnemidae/Lissomidae, etc.
Cleridae
Subfamily Chrysomelidae
Mycetophilidae
Syrphidae
Acari 1
Acari 2
Acari 3
Salticidae
Mymaridae
Collembola
Staphylinidae
Isoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Chalcididae
Eurytomidae
Eulophidae
Cassidinae (Ptilodactlylidae)
Reduviidae
Formicidae
Vespidae
Odonata
Endomychidae/Erotylidae/Tenebrionidae
Myriapoda+Isopoda
Braconidae
Histeridae
Pselaphinae
Nitidulidae
Gall makers
Apidae: Meliponini
Apidae: Euglossini
Agaonidae
Sphecidae
Chrysididae/Dryinidae/Mutillidae
Bethylidae
Carabidae
Tardigrada
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1
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1
1
1
1
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1
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1
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0
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1
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0
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0
0
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0
1
0
0
0
0
0
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0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
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5
5
5
5
7
1
1
4
4
6
5
4
5
3
1
1
1
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2
1
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6
4
4
4
4
4
6
3
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3
4
5
6
7
1
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3
1
4
4
6
1
Sum (sorting effort)
22
17
18
35
33
8
21
18
Add:
Drosophilidae:
Sticky
Light
Fogging
FIT
Winkler
Pitfall
Processing of material
Panamanian students (probably n = 5) will help with the sorting. Priority will be given to programs
generating large amount of specimens, such as fogging, FITs and microarthropods.
Sticky traps: All material identified as far as possible to families and counted.
Focal taxa (n= 22) are extracted and kept in whirl-packs filled with ethanol (2,000 available for
the program). The rest of material is thrown away.
FITs: 33 focal taxa and 3,000 whirl-packs available. Two Panamanian students to help
Beating: 17 focal taxa and 1,500 whirl-packs available
Fogging: 35 focal taxa and 4,000 whirl-packs available. Two Panamanian students to help
Light traps: 18 focal taxa, 2,000 entomological pins and 1,000 whirl-packs available (+ storage boxes)
Microarthropods: 8 focal taxa, 864 vials available (no whirl-packs). One Panamanian student to help
Winkler: 21 focal taxa and 3,000 whirl-packs available
Pitfall traps: 18 focal taxa and 3,000 whirl-packs available
In total: 17,500 whirl-packs and 489 liters ethanol 70 degrees available
Laboratories on BCI
Two main working places have been designated for the IBISCA project on BCI:
1) ‘Wet-dirty’ area: in the Kodak house. Please concentrate all work there which may be
rather wet, dirty or requires handling large samples, etc.
2) ‘Dry-clean’ area: BCI meeting room. For work with stereomicroscopes (n = 11). In addition,
two desktop and one laptop computers will be available for the project in this area
(see databasing,below).
Other working spaces may also be set up in different laboratories. The general BCI computer
room with internet access will be shared with other BCI users.
There will be designated areas for storage of equipment and chemicals.
Databasing: at the end of the first phase, each participant will be required to provide the scientific
coordinators with a simple Excel file detailing the different samples obtained with his/her sampling
program. These files will be needed to coordinates the analyses of the results.
Please think beforehand of the codes you want to use for your samples and how you want to
organize this file.
Collecting, storage and export of specimens
The collecting permit is collective and will be included in your information
envelope (see below). These fees will be paid by the project.
We expect that most of the material will be exported by the participants with
individual export permits, when leaving Panama. However, it may be possible
to store material at the University of Panama. Later exportation of the material
is possible, but more difficult to organize for wet material. Each participant is
required to pay individually for export permits.
Transfer Tocumen airport to BCI
The Hotel Via Espana will host most of the participants when transiting from/to Tocumen airport
and BCI. Booking has been made as indicated in the following page.
Hotel Via Espana: Via Espana (Martin Sosa y Via Espana), Panama City.
Ph. +507 264 0800, Fax +507 264 8802, email [email protected]
Price single/double rooms: $22/$22-33 (double beds or not).
Transfer airport - Hotel - airport: by taxi/bus organised by Samatour (Ph. 680-8990/646-4660)
The taxi/bus will be dispatched at the airport when you arrive. The driver will wait with a sign
‘IBISCA’. Participants are required to pay the taxi fare ($20, each additional person = $5; i.e.
one person pays $20, 3 people $10 each).
Transfer Hotel - Gamboa - Hotel: Same system organised by Samatour. Cost of fare $20, with additional
person = $5. You need to leave the hotel at least 1 hour 15 before the time departure of the boat.
See next pages for individual bookings and arrival.
Transfer Gamboa - BCI - Gamboa: by boat, free. You need your personal badge to enter the
Dredging Division at Gamboa and access the boat. This badge will be given at your hotel, along with an envelope
with other information.
Arrivals - airport transfers and hotel
As of 11 Sept 2003. If the information is incorrect, please urgently contact Yves!
Name
Patrick Basset
Eric Bauhaus
Laurent Pyot
Bruno Corbara
Gianfranco Curletti
Henri-Pierre Aberlenc
Alexey Tishechkin
Frode Odegaard
Alain Dejean
Francis Hallé
Arrival - Date, flight #, origin, time
17 September CM222 (Caracas) 18h10
Local
17 September, CO 887 (Newark), 20h53
19 September CM301 (Miami) 18h35
19 September CM301 (Miami) 18h35
20 September CM265 (Mexico) 15h35
20 September, AA 2131 (Miami), 12.40 pm
20 September, AA959 (Miami) 18h55
20 September, CO 887 (Newark), 20h53
20 September, CO 887 (Newark), 20h53
Arrival BCI
Not on BCI
22-Sep-03
22-Sep-03
21-Sep-03
21-Sep-03
21-Sep-03
21-Sep-03
21-Sep-03
21-Sep-03
21-Sep-03
Taxi a Hotel
Yves Basset
***
Yves Basset
Yves Basset
Yves Basset
Yves Basset
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
STRI driver
Hotel
Taxi a BCI
Casa de Yves
Not on BCI
Vía España
Sherman
Casa de Yves
Sherman
Vía España
SAMATOUR
Casa de Yves
Yves Basset
Casa de Yves
Yves Basset
Vía España
SAMATOUR
Vía España
SAMATOUR
Vía España
SAMATOUR
Egbert Leigh (Gamboa) ***
Jerome Orivel
Maurice Leponce
Dany Cleyet-Marrel
20 September, CO 887 (Newark), 20h53
20 September, CO887 (Newark), 20h53
21 September, AA959 (Miami) 18h55
21-Sep-03
21-Sep-03
22-Sep-03
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
SAMATOUR Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
SAMATOUR Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
Sherman
Gilles Ebersolt
Nouï Baiben
Thierry Aubert
Kevin Jordan
Neville Winchester
Servio Ribeiro
Stephane Bechet
Jürgen Schmidl
Roger Kitching
Laura L. Fagan
Raphael K. Didham
Andreas Floren
21 September, AA959 (Miami) 18h55
21 September, AA959 (Miami) 18h55
21 September, AA959 (Miami) 18h55
22 September, AA993B (Miami), 01h10
22 September, AA993B (Miami), 01h10
22 September CM700 (São Paulo), 18h07
23 September, CO 887 (Newark), 20h53
25 September, IB6145 (Madrid), 01h25
25 September, CM400 (San Jose), 09h36
28 September, CM447 (Los Angeles), 09h30
28 September, CM447 (Los Angeles), 09h30
30 September, IB 6145 (Madrid), 01h25
22-Sep-03
22-Sep-03
22-Sep-03
22-Sep-03
22-Sep-03
23-Sep-03
24-Sep-03
25-Sep-03
25-Sep-03
29-Sep-03
29-Sep-03
30-Sep-03
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
Yves Basset
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
Yves Basset
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
Vía España
Sherman
Sherman
Sherman
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
Sherman
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
SAMATOUR
Lukas Cizek
Yves Roisin
4 October CM222 (Caracas) 18h10
8 October, CO887 (Newark), 20h52
4-Oct-03
9-Oct-03
Yves Basset
SAMATOUR
Casa de Yves
Vía España
Sherman
SAMATOUR Jueves.Jacana 7:15
Margaret Lowman
Olivier Pascal
Lancha a BCI
Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
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Lunes.Jacana 7:15
Lunes.Jacana 7:15
Martes.Jacana 7:15
Jueves.Jacana 7:15
Viernes.Jacana 7:15
Lunes.Jacana 7:15
Lunes.Jacana 7:15
Martes.Jacana 7:15
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H. Barrios, Y. Basset, D. Frame, R. Harrison, A. Hernandez, E. Medianero, C. Potvin, D. Roubik, M. Samaniego
& S.J. Wright are based in Panama City and this is irrelevant to them
Barro Colorado Island (BCI)
You are assumed to have signed a form detailing the general conditions of the IBISCA project before
your arrival. This form was sent by email earlier.
Your stay on BCI is also subject to different regulations and recommendations, please see the
documentation sent by e-mail. In particular, washing machines and telephones are available
(for a fee). Meals: 3 meals will be provided per day. However, participants leaving for the field
will be requested to prepare their own breakfast and lunch early in the morning.
Each Thursday, informal seminars are presented on BCI. From our group, F. Hallé, D. Frame
and A. Floren will be presenting such seminars. If you want to present a seminar please contact Yves.
Change: Panama uses US$. If needed, better to change US$ before you leave for Panama, as this
could prove to be time-consuming in the city.
It will be possible to go to Panama City from BCI, by boat and bus (see schedule next page)
Schedule BCI- Gamboa - Panama City
BCI BOAT SCHEDULE
SACA BUS SCHEDULE TO GAMBOA
MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
LAUNCH JACANA
AM
MON-FRI
PM
SAT
SUN-HOLIDAY*
05:00 AM
LEAVE BCI
06:25
3:40:00 PM
04:45 AM
06:00 AM
06:00 AM
LEAVE GMB
07:15
5:30:00 PM*
05:15 AM
07:00 AM
07:00 AM
TRAVEL TIME
40 MINUTES
05:30 AM
08:00 AM
08:00 AM
05:45 AM
9:00 AM
09:00 AM
06:00 AM
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
SAT, SUN & HOLIDAYS
LAUNCH LAS CRUCES
AM
PM
06:10 AM
12:00 PM
11:00 AM
LEAVE BCI
06:30
2:30:00 PM
07:00 AM
01:00 PM
12:00 AM
LEAVE GMB
08:00
5:30:00 PM
07:30 AM
02:00 PM
1:00 PM
TRAVEL TIME
65 MINUTES
08:10 AM
03:00 PM
02:00 PM
09:10 AM
04:30 PM
03:00 PM
10:10 AM
06:00 PM
04:30 PM
11:10 AM
07:30 PM
06:00 PM
WATER TAXI
FROM BCI
FROM GMB
Monday & Wednesdays
14:00
13:00
12:00 PM
09:00 PM
07:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday **
14:00
13:00
01:15 PM
11:00 PM
09:00 PM
** Suspended until the Las Cruces is back to w ork.
02:15 PM
11:00 PM
03:15 PM
04:30 PM
OUR CLOCKS ARE SET ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL TIM E OF PANAM A OBTAINED BY DIALING 105 ON THE
LOCAL PHONE SYSTEM .
ALL PASSENGERS SHOULD BE ON BOARD AT LEAST FIVE M INUTES BEFORE THE SCHEDULED TIM E OF
DEPARTURE.
THE LAUNCH WILL NOT RETURN TO THE DOCK TO PICK UP ANY PASSENGERS WHO ARRIVE LATE.
05:30 PM
06:30 PM
07:30 PM
09:00 PM
BUS DEPARTURE TIM ES ARE SUBJECT TO FRECUENT CHANGES, BE SURE TO BE AT THE SACA BUS TERM INAL
AT LEAST (15) FIFTEEN M INUTES BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DEPARTURE TIM E.
11:15 PM
DEPARTURE TIMES ARE FROM SACA
TERMINAL IN PANAMA CITY.
DEPARTURES FROM GAMBOA ARE
APPROXIMATELY FORTY FIVE MINUTES
LATER.
Barro Colorado Island:
where to take the boat at Gamboa
In case you need to get there by taxi or bus (in addition, it is possible to get the boat from the City)
Actual loading point:
go here!
Old passenger’s loading point
X
X
Rooms - BCI
(as of 4 Sept 03)
Barro Colorado Island
22 Sept - 11 Oct 2003
22 Sept - 11 Oct 2003
12 Oct - 31 Oct 2003
12 Oct - 31 Oct 2003
Room
Henri-Pierre Aberlenc
Thierry Aubert
Bruno Corbara
Alain Dejean
Raphael K. Didham
Gilles Ebersolt
Andreas Floren
Kevin Jordan
Roger Kitching
Francis Hallé
Frode Odegaard
Eric Bauhaus
Lukas Cizek
Thierry Aubert
Bruno Corbara
Alain Dejean
Raphael K. Didham
Gilles Ebersolt
Andreas Floren
Kevin Jordan
Roger Kitching
Free
Frode Odegaard
Eric Bauhaus
Gianfranco Curletti
Noui Baiben
Yves Basset/Hector Barrios/Enrique Medianero
Jerome Orivel
Laura L. Fagan
Laurent Pyot
Jürgen Schmidl
Neville Winchester
Servio Ribeiro
Yves Roisin
Alexey Tishechkin
Stephane Bechet
B1
B3
B4
CN9
D4
E2
CN1
CN2
CN7
E4
CN6
CN5
Gianfranco Curletti
Noui Baiben
Dany Cleyet-Marrel/Olivier Pascal
Jerome Orivel
Laura L. Fagan
Laurent Pyot
Jürgen Schmidl
Neville Winchester
Servio Ribeiro
Maurice Leponce
Alexey Tishechkin
Stephane Bechet
Some participants may have been booked longer than indicated on this schedule. When in doubt, please check with Yves
Projected statistical analyses
(data combined from all sampling programs)
This will be discussed by the group, on BCI (see next page). Some suggestions:
Faunal similarity: for each group, between each of the 9 sites (18 sub-sites: upper canopy and
understorey/soil, including vegetation, treated as a taxon or as an explanatory variable.
Correlation between focal taxa, including vegetation, at the 9 (18) sites.
Multivariate analyses, either for particular sampling programs, or as a whole, with vegetation and
canopy openness as explanatory variables for each of the 9 (18) sites.
Meetings and informal discussions
Each day, a short meeting will be held on BCI early in the evening to review
the progress and challenges of the day, and update the daily planning.
It will be possible at that time to call the support crew in Panama City to
review any action needed.
We plan to have a large meeting about mid-way through the project with
all participants, to discuss seasonal replication, processing of material and
statistical analyses.
Other social events and seminars as indicated on next page.
Events and seminars during IBISCA (so far)
• 22 Sept 2003, 18h00: Inauguration of the ‘Quinzaine scientifique française’ at the University of Panama.
• 23 Sept 2003, 12h00: Seminar on tree architecture by Francis Hallé, at STRI (Tupper).
• 25 Sept 2003, 19h15: Seminar on tree architecture by Francis Hallé, at BCI.
• 1 Oct 2003, 19h00: Public talk (G. Ebersolt, H. Barrios & B. Corbara) about the canopy raft and the project
IBISCA (in Spanish) at the University of Panama, for the ‘Quinzaine scientifique française’.
• 11 Oct 2003: Visit of Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lawrence Small at the IBISCA sites.
• 12 Oct 2003: Round table with all participants on BCI, to review the progresses, challenges and
the future of the IBISCA project.
• 13 Oct 2003: Visit of Prof. E.O. Wilson at the IBISCA sites.
• 16 Oct 2003, 19h15: Seminar on comparing arboreal arthropod communities in temperate and tropical forests,
by Andreas Floren, at BCI.
• 20 Oct 2003, 19h15: Seminar on plant-arthropod associations by Dawn Frame, at BCI.
• 21 Oct 2003, 12h00: Seminar on host specificity, alpha- and beta-diversity of phytophagous beetles in two tropical forests
in Panama by Frode Ødegaard
Significance of IBISCA
The major scientific output of the project would represent (i) the first attempt
to compare arthropod species richness in the soil vs. canopy habitats of a tropical
rainforest, including a wide range of taxa and sufficient spatial and temporal
replicates, as well as samples obtained in situ from the canopy; (ii) one of the
first study of beta diversity at a fine scale (a few kilometres) in a lowland
tropical forest, encompassing again a sample size accounting for arthropod
diversity, spatial and seasonal replicates; and (iii) one of the first study of
airborne arthropod fine stratification (a few metres) within the canopy.
The amount of data generated on the vertical stratification and beta-diversity
of 40 focal arthropod taxa phylogenetically and ecologically distant is
likely to have far ranging implications for the conservation of biodiversity
in tropical rainforests.
Participants and duties
Entomologists: Henri-Pierre Aberlenc, Héctor Barrios, Yves Basset, Lukas Cizek, Bruno Corbara,
Gianfranco Curletti, Alain Dejean, Raphael Didham, Laura L. Fagan, Andreas Floren, Rhett Harrison,
Kevin Jordan, Roger Kitching, Maurice Leponce, Enrique Medianero, Frode Ødegaard, Jerome Orivel,
Servio Ribeiro, Yves Roisin, David Roubik, Jürgen Schmidl, Alexey Tishechkin & Neville Winchester
Botanists: Dawn Frame, Francis Hallé, Andres Hernandez, Margaret Lowman, Catherine Potvin,
Mirna Samaniego & Joe Wright
Technical staff: Thierry Aubert, Nouï Baiben, Stephane Bechet, Dany Cleyet-Marrel, Gilles Ebersolt,
Olivier Pascal & Laurent Pyot
Crane operators: José Herrera, Edwin Andrade & Oscar Saldaña
Support crew: Yves Basset, Mirna Samaniego, Patrick Basset, Héctor Barrios & Bruno Corbara
Logistics: Gilles Ebersolt & Mirna Samaniego
Scientific coordination: Yves Basset, Bruno Corbara, Héctor Barrios & Joe Wright
Sponsors
Solvay - Solvin (www.solvinpvc.com)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (www.stri.org)
Note: Ecoport has
generously donated $1,000
towards general equipment
for the IBISCA project. One
requirement is to improve
the picture
databank in the Ecoport
database
(www.ecoport.org).
Global Canopy Programme (www.globalcanopy.org)
Joe Wright and Yves Basset’s research funds at STRI
Ecoport and University of Florida (www.ecoport.org/)
Ambassade de France à Panama (http://www.ambafrance-pa.org/)
You can help by donating
digital pictures of tropical
insect herbivores to Ecoport
(from Panama or elsewhere;
pictures of specimens dead
or alive). Please contact
Yves Basset.
Useful contacts in Panama (+507)
Yves Basset
Office 603 at STRI (Tupper Building): Ph. 212 8233, Fax 212 8148.
Home 264 9529, [email protected]
BCI switchboard and fax
Ph. 212-8900/8951, Fax 212-8937/8975
IBISCA project, BCI
Héctor Barrios
University of Panama (Entomologia), Ph 264 5431, [email protected]
Ph. 212 8978
Samatour
Mirna Samaniego
Office 523 at STRI, Ph 212 8177, [email protected]
Orelis Arosemena
Visitor’s office, STRI, Ph 212 8016, [email protected]
Oris Acevedo
Barro Colorado Island, Ph 212 8901, [email protected]
Hotel Via Espana
Via Espana (Martin Sosa y Via Espana), Panama City
Ph. 264 0800, Fax 264 8802, email [email protected]
Ph. 680-8990 / 646 4660