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Fall 2004 Vol. 23, No. 2 NEWSLETTER OF THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA (TERRESTRIAL ARTHROPODS) Table of Contents General Information and Editorial Notes..................................... (inside front cover) News and Notes Forest arthropods project news .............................................................................51 Black flies of North America published...................................................................51 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada entomology web products...............................51 Arctic symposium at ESC meeting.........................................................................51 Summary of the meeting of the Scientific Committee, April 2004 ..........................52 New postgraduate scholarship...............................................................................59 Key to parasitoids and predators of Pissodes........................................................59 Members of the Scientific Committee 2004 ...........................................................59 Project Update: Other Scientific Priorities...............................................................60 Opinion Page ..............................................................................................................61 The Quiz Page.............................................................................................................62 Bird-Associated Mites in Canada: How Many Are There?......................................63 Web Site Notes ...........................................................................................................71 Arctic Corner Update on the Insects of the Arctic project ............................................................72 Selected Publications associated with the Biological Survey...............................80 Selected Future Conferences....................................................................................85 Answers to Faunal Quiz.............................................................................................86 Quips and Quotes.......................................................................................................87 Requests for Material or Information Invited...........................................................88 Request for Cooperation (form)................................................................................89 Vol. 23, No. 2 51 General Information The Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) appears twice yearly. All material without other accreditation is prepared by the Secretariat for the Biological Survey. Editor: H.V. Danks Head, Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) Canadian Museum of Nature P.O. Box 3443, Station “D” Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4 Tel. 613-566-4787 Fax. 613-364-4022 Email: [email protected] Queries, comments, and contributions to the Newsletter are welcomed by the editor. Deadline for material for the Spring 2005 issue is January 28, 2005. Editorial Notes The Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) develops and coordinates national initiatives in taxonomic and ecological entomology on behalf of the Cana- dian Museum of Nature and the Entomological Society of Canada. The Newsletter communicates information about systematic and faunistic entomology that may be of interest in Canada, and reports especially on activities relevant to the Biological Survey. Alternative formats Instead of receiving this paper copy two other options are available on request to [email protected]: ● An email alert will be sent when each issue is available on the Survey’s web site at: www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/bschome.htm. or ● Each issue can be delivered in pdf format directly to your email box Vol. 23, No. 2 51 News and Notes Forest arthropods project news Agriculture and Agri-Food Can- he results of the survey of forest arthropod ada Entomology Web Products Tbiodiversity projects in Canada (see For- any of the entomology web products that est Arthropod Project Inventory in Canada. Mwere removed from the Agriculture and Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada Agri-food Canada website in 2002 have been (Terrestrial Arthropods) 23(1): 17-18) are now relocated to two websites established by the available on the Biological Survey web site. CanaColl Foundation and the North American This database will be actively maintained Dipterists Society. Most of the original Cana- so should there be changes or additions, dian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids please forward information to David Langor and Nematodes website is now located at http: ([email protected]). Thanks to all who //www.canacoll.org/. The site has been up- responded to the survey. dated and is still being developed. Important documents such as a Checklist to the Beetles The first issue of the Forest Arthropods of Canada and Alaska, and an Illustrated Glos- Newsletter is in preparation and will be distrib- sary of Positional and Morphological Terms for uted in early December 2004. If you have news Chalcid Wasps, as well as several new docu- items about forest arthropod biodiversity is- ments, can be found on the CanaColl website. sues, including faunistics, systematics, conser- Most of AAFC=s Diptera web documents are vation, disturbance ecology and adaptive forest now located at http://www.nadsdiptera.org/ management, that you would like to contribute These include the newsletters Fly Times and to the Newsletter (in English or French), please Tachinid Times, a Directory of North American forward by October 31, 2004 to Dave Langor Dipterists, the CNC Diptera type catalogues, ([email protected]). and a series of web pages on Tachinidae. The Black Flies of North Arctic Symposium at the ESC America published meeting he Black Flies (Simuliidae) of North here will be a symposium at the upcoming TAmerica by P.H. Adler, D.C. Currie and Tmeeting of the Entomological Society of D.M. Wood was published this year. This book Canada and Acadian Entomological Society compiles nearly all the published information (Charlottetown, 15-18 October 2004), focus- on North American black flies. All aspects of sing on the insects of the Central Barrens black flies are treated within the context of region of arctic Canada. The goal of the sym- a worldwide perspective, including natural posium is to highlight what has been learned in history and ecology, cytology and morphol- the four years of the Survey’s project on Insects ogy, phylogeny and classification, economic of the Arctic, and note the work that still needs impact, pest management, natural enemies, to be done. history of research, study methods, and identi- See p. 72 for an update on the 2003 and fication. Information on ordering can be found at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. 2004 arctic field collecting. 52 Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) Vol. 23, No. 2 53 Summary of the meeting of the Scientific Committee of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), April 2004 he Scientific Committee met in Ottawa on to Newfoundland in the future. There has been TApril 22-23, 2004, including new members little progress with plans for publications, but Dr. Owen Olfert and Dr. Jon Sweeney. this issue will be pursued because the first fas- cicle will establish the format for the series. Scientific projects An article was published in the BSC 1. Grasslands Newsletter to describe the project and en- The first grasslands volume – Ecology and courage participation. The BSC website was interactions – has had one chapter submitted, also updated with a separate page describing one is undergoing internal review, and one has the project and including a list of families of complete text but figures are in progress. A NF/LB insects, number of taxa per family and number of other authors have agreed to submit availability of keys. Other terrestrial arthropod chapters by the end of May. A list of potential groups will be added to this list soon. The authors for the second volume – Arthropods involvement of others is required for building, in altered grasslands – is being assembled. testing and refining keys. Moreover, a preliminary list of authors for the third faunistic / systematic volume is being 3. Forest arthropods compiled. Evidently, such a volume will have A forest arthropod project inventory little potential overlap with the EMAN assess- done in the 1990’s and published in the BSC ment of species diversity in the prairie ecozone, newsletter to help facilitate communication which is in progress. had been updated recently and is accessible on the BSC website (see p. 51). The list shows The 2004 grasslands focus trip is at Aweme, 65 projects to date. One objective of the For- MB June 4–6. The event is a “bioblitz”, includ- est Arthropod Project will to be to update this ing scientists from various disciplines. database regularly. 2. Terrestrial Arthopods of Newfoundland and The content of the BSC website has been Labrador enlarged to provide a better description of the The project continues to be active mainly project. Publication of a Forest Arthropods due to the efforts of Dr. David Larson. Work Newsletter through the Canadian Forest Ser- on keys continues mainly for the Coleoptera al- vice, Northern Forestry Centre is planned, and though other orders have been done. Work is in after discussion the Committee agreed that a process to make colour photographs of all taxa. bilingual electronic version would be the pre- A database of entomological literature dealing ferred format,
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  • Parasites of Seabirds: a Survey of Effects and Ecological Implications Junaid S

    Parasites of Seabirds: a Survey of Effects and Ecological Implications Junaid S

    Parasites of seabirds: A survey of effects and ecological implications Junaid S. Khan, Jennifer Provencher, Mark Forbes, Mark L Mallory, Camille Lebarbenchon, Karen Mccoy To cite this version: Junaid S. Khan, Jennifer Provencher, Mark Forbes, Mark L Mallory, Camille Lebarbenchon, et al.. Parasites of seabirds: A survey of effects and ecological implications. Advances in Marine Biology, Elsevier, 2019, 82, 10.1016/bs.amb.2019.02.001. hal-02361413 HAL Id: hal-02361413 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02361413 Submitted on 30 Nov 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Parasites of seabirds: a survey of effects and ecological implications Junaid S. Khan1, Jennifer F. Provencher1, Mark R. Forbes2, Mark L. Mallory3, Camille Lebarbenchon4, Karen D. McCoy5 1 Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, 351 Boul Saint Joseph, Gatineau, QC, Canada, J8Y 3Z5; [email protected]; [email protected] 2 Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1V 5BS; [email protected] 3 Department of Biology, Acadia University, 33 Westwood Ave, Wolfville NS, B4P 2R6; [email protected] 4 Université de La Réunion, UMR Processus Infectieux en Milieu Insulaire Tropical, INSERM 1187, CNRS 9192, IRD 249.