Sharing information on species interactions, phenology, identification, and checklists.

John Pickering, Gerry Cassis, and Malcolm Storey
TDWG Meeting, New Orleans
October, 2011
Permanent url: http://www.discoverlife.org/demo/20111018tdwg.html

Herbivore Lithophane querquera   eats   herbivore Alsophila pometaria

Herbivore Coridromius monotocopsis   eats   plant Monotoca elliptica

• Abstract (TDWG, October, 2011)
  • species interactions
  • phenology
  • identification
  • checklists

• Species Interactions of Australia Database (SIAD) (Report: 20 August, 2011)

• Species Interactions ('Title' -- 'Energy donor is' -- 'Energy recipient is'.)

• Questions (List of species interaction questions that we will address.)
  • Map of plant bug Ausejanus vividus on host plants

• Contact: John Pickering, http://www.discoverlife.org/who/Pickering,_John.html

Species Interactions -- development of data schema

Event	Where, when, who, how, ... other Darwin Core occurrence variables
Entity-1	26 Cotesia congregata cocoons
Entity-2	Manduca sexta, Carolina Sphinx, larva
...	...
Entity-n	Solanum lycopersicum, Garden Tomato [substrate's name]

Event	Where, when, who, how, ... other Darwin Core occurrence variables
Entity-1	What-1
subject1 -- verb1-- object2
Entity-2	What-2
subject2 -- verb2-- objectn
Entity-n	What-n

Event	Where, when, who, how, ... other Darwin Core occurrence variables
Entity-1	What-1: Anopheles gambiae [modifier] female mosquitoes
subject1 -- vector -- object2
Entity-2:	What-2: Plasmodium falciparum [modifier] malarial sporozoites
to recipient3
Entity-3	What-3: Homo sapiens

id	I_JPS1
source	http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20p?see=I_JPS1
subject	Cotesia congregata	Manduca sexta, Carolina Sphinx, larva
verb	is a parasitoid of	is a herbivore of
object	Manduca sexta, Carolina Sphinx, larva	Solanum lycopersicum, Garden Tomato