The presentation of the CESAB group ACTIAS at the 2016 french ecology conference in the FRB-CESAB session "Using a treasury of knowledge to tackle complex ecological questions." Presenter: Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde

1. Global patterns of insect diversity,
distribution and evolutionary
distinctness
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde &
Rodolphe Rougerie
INRA Orléans & Institut de Recherche sur la
Biologie de l’Insecte (IRBI) Tours
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris
ACTIAS
Rodolphe Rougerie, MNHN Paris
2015-2018

2. Vignieri 2014 Science
Large numbers of Mamals amphibians and bird species face extinction
in SouthEast Asia, the Amazon and the Andes

3. http://edgeofexistence.org/

4. Wild silk and hawk moths
Saturniidae: 3409 sp & ssp Sphingidae: 2024 sp & ssp

5. Main Aims
• Geographical patterns of diversity.
• Areas and Evolutionary distinct species with high conservation value.
• Relative role of biotic and abiotic factors as drivers of diversification.

6. 109.880 records
982 species
50% 5% 30%
Methodology: Assembly of database
Ca. ½ million georeferenced records in databases

7. Sujeevan Ratnasingham
>65 000 DNA barcodes representing 90-95% of the species diversity in
the two families
Methodology: Assembly of database

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Methodology
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Traits linked to species dispersal and
adaptation capacity
Species Distribution Modeling
wing-loadings
Larval diet breadth and composition
Comparative phylogeography

9. Team & disciplinary scope
The ACTIAS team: 12 researchers + 1 postdoc (2y) + 1 technician
6 countries, 11 institutions
• Entomology, systematics, DNA
barcoding
• Biogeography, ecological
modeling, macroecology
• Phylogeography
• Bioinformatics
• Community and evolutionary
ecology
• Theoretical modeling of
biodiversity
• Conservation biology
Liliana Ballesteros
ACTIAS Postdoc

10. Major outcomes
• First comprehensive global diversity and distribution database for 5000 insect
species worldwide
• First ranking of evolutionary distinct insect species under threat of extinction,
and regions of high conservation value for these moths
• Identification of the major drivers of speciation in the Neotropics
SPHINX « Understanding and Predicting species adaptation
to environmental changes in insects »

11. Major outcomes
• Overcoming methodological challenges
• Databasing records from multiple sources and data reconciliation
• Merging of records with/without DNA barcodes
• Developing and implementing an innovative analytical workflow

12. Major outcomes
• Massive data release of diversity / distribution data
• Occurrence data (BOLD; GBIF, MapOfLife)
• Species Distribution Models (MapOfLife)

13. Thanks for your
attention!
… and a big thank you to
the CESAB team