A model for integrated survey and inventory to explore diversity in northern host-parasite systems.

Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA) 2013.

Figure 15.2. A model for integrated survey and inventory to explore diversity in northern host-parasite systems. Ecosystem and multi-species approaches rely on fi eld-based collections of macroparasites and microparasites that result from collaborations among parasitologists, wildlife biologists, ecologists and local communities. Specimens are deposited in archival collections, where geo-referenced data are linked to tissues and vouchers for hosts and parasites, along with their defi nitive identifi cations. Biodiversity information becomes the focal point for diagnostics, development of temporal and spatial baselines, and diverse research activities including ecological modeling and prediction in a regime of environmental change. Archives representing specimens and informatics become the baselines to defi ne faunal diversity and
against which environmental perturbations may be assessed. As a limited example of integrated and ecosystem level survey in the Bering Sea, counter-clockwise from the top: Steller’s sea eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus, rock sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis, short-tailed shearwaters Puffi nus tenuirostris and lesser numbers of sooty shearwaters Puffi nus griseus, rhinoceros auklet Cerorhinca monocerata, crested auklet Aethia cristata, tufted puffi n Fratercula cirrhata and black-legged kittiwake Rissa tridactyla. Photos: E.P. Hoberg.

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Meltofte, H. (ed.) 2013. Arctic Biodiversity Assessment. Status and trends in Arctic biodiversity. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.