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
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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
N.B. Late surveys of FITs = B2: 9 Nov; C3: 10 Nov; R3: 12 Nov, No Ikos
Chronologically field work concentrates on crane, bubble, raft and ikos
1 CANOPY ACCESSHelicopters SAN/Helix Craft HC S S S SCrane C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C X X C C C C C C CBubble B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B1 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2Raft site FAE R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1Raft site BET R2 R2 R2 R2 R2 R2 R2 R2 R2Raft site HAB R3 R3 R3 R3 R3 R3 R3 R3 R3Ikos I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1 I1
2 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIESVegetation - canopy C C B1 R1 B2 I1 R2 R3Vegetation - undestorey C B1 B2 R1 R1 I1 I1 R2 R2 R3 R3
Henri-Pierre Aberlenc D D D D DHector Barrios C C C C C CYves Basset C C C C C C C D D D D D D D D DPatrick Basset C C C C C CLukas Cizek D D D D DBruno Corbara D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D DGianfranco Curletti D D D D D D D D D D D DAlain Dejean D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D DRaphael K. Didham D D D D D D D D D D D D D DLaura L. Fagan D D D D D D D D D D D D D DAndreas Floren D D D D D D D DDawn Frame C C C C C C CFrancis Hallé D D D DRhett Harrison ?Andres Hernandez C C C C C C C C C C C CKevin Jordan D D D D D D D D DRoger Kitching N N N N N N N N NMaurice Leponce D D D D D D D D D D DMargaret Lowman ? D D D DEnrique Medianero C C C C C C C C C C C C CFrode Odegaard D D D D D D D D D D D DJerome Orivel D D D D D D D D DCatherine J. Potvin ?Servio Ribeiro D D D D D D D D D D D DYves Roisin D D D D D D D D D D DDavid Roubik C C C C C C CMirna Samanbiego C C C C C C C C C C C CJürgen Schmidl D D D D D DAlexey Tishechkin D D D D D D D D D D D D DNeville Winchester D D D D D D D D DS. Joseph Wright C C C C C C C C C C C C
Laurent Pyot C D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D DEric Bauhaus C D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D DGilles Ebersolt C D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D DThierry Aubert C D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D DDany Cleyet-Marrel C D D D D D D D D D DNoui Baiben C D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D DStephane Bechet C D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D DOlivier Pascal D D D D D D D D D D
Panamanian students (probably n = 5) will help with the sorting. Priority will be given to programsgenerating 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 forthe 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 berather 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 computerroom 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 scientificcoordinators with a simple Excel file detailing the different samples obtained with his/her samplingprogram. 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 toorganize 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 BCIThe 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.
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 hotelAs of 11 Sept 2003. If the information is incorrect, please urgently contact Yves!
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
Name Arrival - Date, flight #, origin, time Arrival BCI Taxi a Hotel Hotel Taxi a BCI Lancha a BCIPatrick Basset 17 September CM222 (Caracas) 18h10 Not on BCI Yves Basset Casa de Yves Not on BCIEric Bauhaus Local 22-Sep-03 *** Vía España ShermanLaurent Pyot 17 September, CO 887 (Newark), 20h53 22-Sep-03 Yves Basset Casa de Yves Sherman
Bruno Corbara 19 September CM301 (Miami) 18h35 21-Sep-03 Yves Basset Vía España SAMATOUR Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
Gianfranco Curletti 19 September CM301 (Miami) 18h35 21-Sep-03 Yves Basset Casa de Yves Yves Basset Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
Henri-Pierre Aberlenc 20 September CM265 (Mexico) 15h35 21-Sep-03 Yves Basset Casa de Yves Yves Basset Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
Alexey Tishechkin 20 September, AA 2131 (Miami), 12.40 pm 21-Sep-03 SAMATOUR Vía España SAMATOUR Domingo.Las cruces 08:00
** Suspended until the Las Cruces is back to w ork. 02:15 PM 11:00 PM
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04:30 PM
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07:30 PM
09:00 PM
11:15 PM
DEPARTURE TIMES ARE FROM SACA TERMINAL IN PANAMA CITY.
DEPARTURES FROM GAMBOA ARE APPROXIMATELY FORTY FIVE MINUTES LATER.
BUS DEPARTURE TIM ES ARE SUBJ ECT 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.
OUR CLOCKS ARE SET ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL TIM E OF PANAM A OBTAINED BY DIALING 105 ON THE LOCAL PHONE SY STEM .
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.
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)
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Old passenger’s loading pointActual loading point:
go here!
Rooms - BCI(as of 4 Sept 03)
Barro Colorado Island22 Sept - 11 Oct 2003 22 Sept - 11 Oct 2003 12 Oct - 31 Oct 2003 12 Oct - 31 Oct 2003 Room
Henri-Pierre Aberlenc Gianfranco Curletti Lukas Cizek Gianfranco Curletti B1Thierry Aubert Noui Baiben Thierry Aubert Noui Baiben B3Bruno Corbara Dany Cleyet-Marrel/Olivier Pascal Bruno Corbara Yves Basset/Hector Barrios/Enrique Medianero B4Alain Dejean Jerome Orivel Alain Dejean Jerome Orivel CN9Raphael K. Didham Laura L. Fagan Raphael K. Didham Laura L. Fagan D4Gilles Ebersolt Laurent Pyot Gilles Ebersolt Laurent Pyot E2Andreas Floren Jürgen Schmidl Andreas Floren Jürgen Schmidl CN1Kevin Jordan Neville Winchester Kevin Jordan Neville Winchester CN2Roger Kitching Servio Ribeiro Roger Kitching Servio Ribeiro CN7Francis Hallé Maurice Leponce Free Yves Roisin E4Frode Odegaard Alexey Tishechkin Frode Odegaard Alexey Tishechkin CN6Eric Bauhaus Stephane Bechet Eric Bauhaus Stephane Bechet CN5
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 dutiesEntomologists: 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,
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
SponsorsSolvay - Solvin (www.solvinpvc.com)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (www.stri.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/)
Note: Ecoport has generously donated $1,000 towards general equipment for the IBISCA project. One requirement is to improve the picturedatabank in the Ecoport database (www.ecoport.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.