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* Identification and documentation of presence and spread of non-indigenous and potentially invasive or harmful species in the Great Lakes. | |||
* Track, monitor, and predict the spread of invasives through space and time, especially in the face of a more rapidly changing climate in the upper Midwest. | |||
* Studying points of access, migration routes, lag times, and speed of colonization of different lineages of non-indigenous organisms already established in the Great Lakes to help prevent future invasions. | |||
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Digitization TCN: Documenting the Occurrence through Space and Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, and Plants Threatening North America's Great Lakes
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Project Summary
One of the greatest threats to the health of North America's Great Lakes is invasion by exotic species, several of which already have had catastrophic impacts on property values, the fisheries, shipping, and tourism industries, and continue to threaten the survival of native species and wetland ecosystems. Additional species have been placed on watchlists because of their potential to become aquatic invasives. This project will create a network of herbaria and zoology museums from among the Great Lakes states of MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH, and NY to better document the occurrence of these species in space and time by imaging and providing online access to the information on the specimens of the critical organisms. Several initiatives are already in place to alert citizens to the dangers of spreading aquatic invasives among our nation's waterways, but this project will develop complementary scientific and educational tools for scientists, students, wildlife officers, teachers, and the public who have had little access to images or data derived directly from preserved specimens collected over the past three centuries.
This bi-national Thematic Collections Network of >25 institutions from eight states and Canada will digitize 1.73 million historical specimens representing 2,550 species of exotic fish, clams, snails, mussels, algae, plants, and their look-alikes documented to occur in the Great Lakes Basin. It is one of the first efforts to digitize liquid preserved specimens and to integrate cross-kingdom taxa and these methods could become national standards for cross taxon digitization. Students will be provided with hands-on experience in modern methods of specimen curation and this cross-taxon network will provide greater flexibility to existing web platforms for integration of data. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource (iDigBio.org).
Current Research
Proposed research:
- Identification and documentation of presence and spread of non-indigenous and potentially invasive or harmful species in the Great Lakes.
- Track, monitor, and predict the spread of invasives through space and time, especially in the face of a more rapidly changing climate in the upper Midwest.
- Studying points of access, migration routes, lag times, and speed of colonization of different lineages of non-indigenous organisms already established in the Great Lakes to help prevent future invasions.
Project Leadership
Project Sponsor: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Principal Investigator (PI): Kenneth Cameron
Collaboratoring Award PIs: Kevin Cummings, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Marymegan Daly, Ohio State University; Thomas Duda, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; John Freudenstein, Ohio State University; Andrew Hipp, Morton Arboretum; Christine Niezgoda, Field Museum of Natural History; Rick Phillippe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Brenda Molano-Flores, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Richard Rabeler, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor; David Seigler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Andrew Simons, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Chris Taylor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Melissa Tulig, New York Botanical Garden; George Watters, Ohio State University;
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Project Collaborators
Albion College
Andrews University
Arizona State University
Butler University
Calvin College
Central Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University
Field Museum of Natural History
Grand Valley State University
Hillsdale
Hope College
Miami University
Michigan State University
Morton Arboretum
New York Botanical Garden
New York State Museum
Ohio State University
Ohio University
Seney National Wildlife Refuge
Université de Montréal
University of Illinois, Illinois Natural History Survey
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
University of Notre Dame
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point
Western Michigan University