Acknowledgements
Planetary Biodiversity Inventory: Plant Bugs
PBI project success would not be possible without the generous assistance of many individuals and institutions. We thank the following persons and institutions who do not otherwise appear on this site for their assistance during the first 1.75 project years.

Website and Database Development

Nina Gregorev, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, for programming contributions on the data-entry interface and underlying database used to capture and serve PBI locality data on the PBI web site.

Bruce Huber, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, for assistance with GPS applications and particularly for help implementing web mapping using the Generic Mapping Tools software package.

Mark Renkes and Vijay Shah, Apex-CoVantage, Herndon, Virginia for production of text and PDF files used in the PBI digital library.

Tony Troncale, formerly Department of Library Services, American Museum of Natural History, for coordination and preduction of the more than 25,000 page images used in preparation of the PBI digital library.

Dr. James S. Ashe, (deceased December 2005), Department of Entomology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, for discussion and arranging demonstration of use of SPECIFY for specimen databasing.

Thomas Trombone, Department of Ornithology, American Museum Of Natural History, for discussion of specimen databasing.

John Pickering, Discover Life, University of Georgia, for integrating the Discover Life tools with the Plant Bug PBI website.


Field Work: Logistical Support and Permits

Dr. Timothy Crowe, Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town for field work logistical support in South Africa.

Chris Tobler, Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town for field work logistical support in South Africa.

Dr. Harry Brailovsky, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Mexico City, for field work logistical support.

Ernesto Barrera, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Mexico City, for field work logistical support.

Dr. Luis Cervantes, Instituto de Ecologia, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, for field work logistical support.

Ms. Janet van den Heever, Kamieskroon, Northern Cape, South Africa for hospitality and permission to collect on her land during 2003 and 2004.

Northern Cape Department of Nature and Environmental Conservation, Kimberley, South Africa, for the issuance of collecting permits for field work in 2003 and 2004.

Western Cape Nature Conservation Board, Cape Town, South Africa, for the issuance of collecting permits for field work in 2003 and 2004.


Host Voucher Indentification

Edwina Marinus, Compton Herbarium, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, for coordinating the identification of host plant voucher specimens.

Herbarium Staff, Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Perth, for identification of host plant voucher specimens.

Herbarium Staff, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for identification of host plant voucher specimens.

Herbarium Staff, Departamento de Botanica, Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Mexico City, for identification of host plant voucher specimens.

Andrew Sanders, Herbarium, University of California at Riverside, for the identification of host plant voucher specimens.

Dr. Kevin C. Nixon, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, for the identification of host plant voucher specimens in the genus Quercus (Fagaceae).


Specimen Loans and Museum Visits

Cheryl Barr, Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California at Berkeley, for the loan of specimens.

Bob Blinn, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Dr. Daniel H. Burckhardt, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Dr. Frédéric Chérot, Laboratoire de Systématique et d'Ecologie animales, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Jerome Constant, Department of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, for the loan of specimens.

Dr. Juergen Deckert, Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany.

Pieter van Doesburg, Naturalis, National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Johannes Duffels, Zoological Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Dr. Zachary H. Falin, Snow Entomological Collection, University of Kansas, Lawrence, for the loan of specimens.

Dr. Eric Guilbert, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département de Systématique et Evolution, Paris, for the loan of specimens.

Tanja Kothe, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen, Germany.

Dr. Nils Peder Kristensen, University Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dr. James K. Liebherr, Department of Entomology, Cornell University,Ithaca.

Armand Matocq, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

Dr. Simon van Noort, Iziko South African Museum, Capetown, South Africa.

Dr. Norman Penny, Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, for the loan of specimens.

Dr. Dominique Pluot-Sigwalt, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

Dr. John T. Polhemus, Polhemus Collection, Englewood, Colorado.

Dr. Gerhard Prinsloo and Dr Ian Millar, ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.

Alistair Ramsdale and Dr Neil Evenhuis, Department of Entomology, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, for the loan of specimens.

Dr. Joseph C. Schaffner and Edward C. Riley, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Prof. Dr. Klaus Schoenitzer, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen, Germany.

Dr. Peter Schwendinger, Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genéve, Genéve, Switzerland.

Dr. Robert W. Sites, Department of Entomology, Uiniversity of Missouri, Columbia.

Mick Webb, Natural History Museum, London, England.

Doug Yanega, Entomology Research Museum, University of California at Riverside, for the loan of specimens.

Dr. Daniel Young and Steven Krauth, Insect Research Collection, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison.


Past employees of the project

Georgina Brown(2006), Database Assistant.

Andrea Moreau (2006 to 2007), plant bug Preparator.

Andy Byers (2006), plant bug Preparator.

Beth Gardner (2004 to 2005), plant bug Preparator.

Carina Judith Van Bers (2004), plant bug Preparator.

Emily Foss (2004), plant bug Preparator.

Margaret Friar-Plikaitis (2004 to 2005), plant bug Preparator.

Michael Elliot (2004), co-ordinated the construction of online keys using key-building software.

Paul Flemons (2003 to 2004), GIS Manager.

Gareth Carter (2003 to 2004), IT and database development.

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