Standardizing the Collection of Insect Trait Data to Identify Ecological Functions

Organizer(s)

• EW

  Ellen Welti (she/her/hers)

  Smithsonian Institute
  Bozeman, Montana
• KP

  Kayla Perry

  Assistant Professor
  The Ohio State University
  Wooster, Ohio
• DD

  DeShae Dillard

  Michigan State University
  East Lansing, Michigan
• 

  Karl Roeder

  Research Entomologist
  USDA-ARS
  Brookings, South Dakota
• 

  Nathan Baker (he/him/his)

  Senior Researcher
  Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology of Hydrobionts
  State Scientific Research Institute Nature Research Centre
  Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
• EL

  Elinor Lichtenberg

  University of North Texas
  Denton, Texas
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  Vaughn Shirey

  David H. Smith Postdoctoral Conservation Research Fellow
  Florida Museum of Natural History
  Gainesville, Florida
• 

  Jessica Kansman (she/her/hers)

  Montana State University
  Bozeman, Montana

Panelist(s)

• JM

  John Murphy

  Queen Mary University of London
  Wareham, England, United Kingdom

Organizer(s)

• TK

  Taylor Kennedy

  Montana State University
  Bozeman, Montana

Attendees will take part in a unified effort to collect new and harmonized insect trait data. Discussion groups will identify easily measured traits that provide insight into five primary ecological roles and functions. All attendees are invited to co-author a data paper using a protocol for insect trait collection.