1. Madagascar: need and opportunity Brian Fisher, California Academy of Sciences Madagascar Biodiversity Center

2. Alex Smith, Guelph MBC inventory team

3. 1. What living things exist?

4. 2. Where do they live?

5. 178 inventory sites

8. HL HW EL worker head measurements

12. 90% of taxonomic products

13. never used

15. Museum: warehouse of dead creatures

16. Not a spatio-temporal portal on life

17. Is taxonomy dead?

18. no

19. in the middle of a breakthrough

20. but

21. taxonomists are dying

23. Does this matter?

24. If you study

25. less so

27. But, if you like

28. you are in trouble

30. Why does this matter?

31. Species Scape Organisms drawn proportional to number of species in each group

32. Lots of undescribed species

33. Fewer taxonomists

34. "suicidal" experiment

37. linked to understanding impact of human activities

38. Dow Jones index to the environment

39. Original Habitats: 10% remain Using taxonomic data, the government will triple protected habitat in 5 years

40. 178 inventory sites

42. Industrial-strength specimen processing streamlines data management

43. Develop inventory methods Establish processing centers Accelerate identification Apply to conservation

44. HL HW EL worker head measurements

45. Madagascar Biodiversity Center

48. 8,000 sequences 600 species

51. Anochetus goodmani Morphologically one species with deep within-species CO1 divisions. Ergatoid queens with extremely localised dispersal

52. Voucher Specimens and minimalist barcodes

53. de facto database of Pacific region invasive ants

54. Formicidae – Madagascar – Estimation of Diversity CASENT0001355 CASENT0001355-D01 268 specimens collected from 4 different sites. Morphospecies Barcode OTU

55. RESULTS No significant difference between morphospecies or barcode OTU’s estimates of taxonomic richness Morphospecies 3% Barcode OTU 2% Barcode OTU Smith et al 2005

56. 3,000,000 719,000 10,000 25 % 0.3 %

57. Dow Jones Index

58. Mystrium fallux Mystrium mysticum Mystrium sp. nov. Mystrium obertheri