CAREER: Digitized data, dung beetles and the dome: improving the understanding of species distribution through research and planetarium-based education.

职业：数字化数据、粪甲虫和穹顶：通过研究和天文馆教育提高对物种分布的了解。

• 批准号: 1942193
• 负责人: Nicole Gunter
• 金额: $ 97.44万
• 依托单位: Cleveland Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-01 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1942193&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Digitized; data; dung; beetles

Understanding species distribution is central to the biodiversity modeling that is increasingly used to inform conservation planning and other applied sciences that benefit society. This project integrates a research program with a new informal education program to enhance both the scientific and public understanding of evolutionary and planetary processes that contribute to species distribution. The research component of this project will assess the importance of evolutionary history in niche modeling that estimates species distribution, with the aim of improving the approach used to select variable environmental layers used in these models. The ability to more accurately predict species distribution under both present and future climate scenarios is essential for identifying and understanding the habitats of species at risk of extinction, modeling the spread of introduced species or medically important invertebrates that can transmit disease, and much more. The findings from the research will be incorporated into the new informal education program that teaches biogeography under a planetarium dome. This program also will leverage the global efforts that have amassed over 1.3 billion specimen records worldwide, as well as technological advances in planetarium software, to visualize biodiversity data in an immersive and dynamic setting. This novel outlet to broadcast digitized data will transform how institutions equipped with planetariums communicate biodiversity data and will create endless opportunities to develop new programs for sharing biodiversity research with the public. Improved public understanding of these complex scientific concepts can facilitate changes in attitudes to the impact of environmental change through increased awareness of the connectivity between planetary processes and life on Earth.A combined systematic and phylogeographic study of Australian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) will be used to assess the importance of evolutionary history in environmental niche modeling. This model-group contains both a relictual Gondwanan and a younger Indomalayan clade that will be assessed in a phylogenetic and ecological framework to explore the heritability of environmental tolerance in closely-related but biogeographically distinct taxa. The evolution of niche dynamics for these biogeographically distinct faunas will be assessed through comparative analysis of niche models, predicted niche occupancy profiles and disparity through time plots. Findings will inform environmental layers selection for future analyses and improve the understanding of biotic and abiotic factors that contribute to species distribution. Beyond informing a key question in evolutionary biology, these results will be integrated into the new planetarium program that aims to improve public scientific literacy relating to species' evolution, ecology and planetary change. Program content will align with Ohio's grade 8 learning standard for STEM and will be presented to museum guests in the onsite planetarium, while offsite school programming will be hosted in a mobile planetarium. Program evaluation will assess the impact of teaching evolution using planetariums, the contribution of museums to informal education, and best-practices for leveraging curatorial expertise in public and school programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

了解物种分布是生物多样性模型的核心，生物多样性模型越来越多地用于为保护规划和其他造福社会的应用科学提供信息。该项目将研究计划与新的非正式教育计划相结合，以增强科学和公众对有助于物种分布的进化和行星过程的理解。该项目的研究部分将评估进化历史在估计物种分布的生态位模型中的重要性，目的是改进用于选择这些模型中使用的可变环境层的方法。在当前和未来的气候情景下更准确地预测物种分布的能力对于识别和了解面临灭绝风险的物种的栖息地、模拟引进物种或可以传播疾病的具有医学重要性的无脊椎动物的传播等等至关重要。研究结果将被纳入新的非正式教育计划中，该计划在天文馆圆顶下教授生物地理学。该计划还将利用在全球范围内积累了超过 13 亿条标本记录的全球努力以及天文馆软件的技术进步，在沉浸式动态环境中可视化生物多样性数据。这种广播数字化数据的新颖渠道将改变配备天文馆的机构传播生物多样性数据的方式，并将创造无限的机会来开发与公众分享生物多样性研究的新项目。提高公众对这些复杂科学概念的理解，可以通过提高对行星过程与地球生命之间联系的认识，促进对环境变化影响的态度的改变。澳大利亚粪甲虫（鞘翅目：金龟子科：金龟子亚科）的系统和系统地理学综合研究将用于评估进化历史在环境生态位建模中的重要性。该模型群包含一个遗存的冈瓦纳大陆和一个较年轻的印度马拉雅分支，将在系统发育和生态框架中对其进行评估，以探索密切相关但生物地理上不同的类群中环境耐受性的遗传力。这些生物地理上独特的动物群的生态位动态演化将通过生态位模型的比较分析、预测的生态位占用概况和时间图的差异来评估。研究结果将为未来分析的环境层选择提供信息，并提高对有助于物种分布的生物和非生物因素的理解。除了为进化生物学中的一个关键问题提供信息外，这些结果还将被纳入新的天文馆计划中，该计划旨在提高公众对物种进化、生态和行星变化相关的科学素养。节目内容将符合俄亥俄州 8 年级 STEM 学习标准，并将在现场天文馆向博物馆参观者展示，而校外节目将在移动天文馆举办。 项目评估将评估使用天文馆进行教学演变的影响、博物馆对非正式教育的贡献，以及在公共和学校项目中利用策展专业知识的最佳实践。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得通过评估来支持基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Oficanthon Paulian, 1985, a junior synonym of Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with redescription of Lepanus mirabilis (Paulian, 1985)

Oficanthon Paulian，1985，Lepanus Balthasar，1966（鞘翅目：金龟子科：Scarabaeinae）的初级异名，并重新描述了 Lepanus mirabilis（Paulian，1985）

• DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.4.6
• 发表时间: 2022-10
• 期刊: Zootaxa
• 影响因子: 0.9
• 作者: GUNTER, NICOLE L.;SAXTON, NATALIE A.;WEIR, THOMAS A.
• 通讯作者: WEIR, THOMAS A.

To design, or not to design? Comparison of beetle ultraconserved element probe set utility based on phylogenetic distance, breadth, and method of probe design

设计，还是不设计？

• DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixad014
• 发表时间: 2023-07
• 期刊: Insect Systematics and Diversity
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Gustafson, Grey T;Glynn, Rachel D;Short, Andrew E;Tarasov, Sergei;Gunter, Nicole L
• 通讯作者: Gunter, Nicole L

Cephalodesmius carminya, a new flightless dung beetle species from the Central Mackay Coast, Queensland.

Cephalodesmius carminya，一种来自昆士兰州麦凯海岸中部的不会飞的粪甲虫新物种。

• DOI: 10.54102/ajt.h85un
• 发表时间: 2024-03
• 期刊: Australian Journal of Taxonomy
• 作者: Ebert, Kathryn M;Gunter, NIcole L
• 通讯作者: Gunter, NIcole L

To design, or not to design? Comparison of beetle ultraconserved element probe set utility based on phylogenetic distance, breadth, and method of probe design

设计，还是不设计？

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7926017
• 发表时间: 2023-01
• 期刊: Zenodo
• 作者: Grey, Gustafson;Rachel, Glynn;Andrew, Short;Sergei, Tarasov;Nicole, Gunter
• 通讯作者: Nicole, Gunter