How many species? A comparison of Alaska's to Sweden's entomofauna

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

9:48 AM – 10:00 AM PT

Location: Vancouver Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212

Presenting Author(s)

Derek S. Sikes (he/him/his)

Curator of Insects / Professor of Entomology
University of Alaska Museum
Fairbanks, Alaska

Co-Author(s)

TP

Thalles Pereira

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Alaska
Fairbanks, Alaska

While the inventory of the Swedish entomofauna nears completion, that of Alaska, a region of similar high latitude but three times the size of Sweden, has perhaps not yet reached the half-way mark. This talk will compare ongoing inventory work in Alaska with recently published accounts of the Swedish entomofauna. Methods of documenting the biodiversity of a massive, mostly roadless, and mostly peopleless land, including newer DNA barcoding approaches, will be discussed.