Donat Agosti

CURRICULUM VITAE

ADDRESS

Plazi
Zinggstrasse 16
3007 Bern
Switzerland
phone: +41-31-370 1060
mobile: +41-76-506 9092

Email:

agosti@plazi.org

Skype:

agostileu

Blogs:

antbase, Biosyscontext, Biodivcontext

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EDUCATION

1989 Department of Entomology, Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
Ph.D. (Dr. Sc. Nat.).

1983 Department of Entomology, Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
Diploma (Dipl. natw. ETH, Ecology and Systematics).

SCIENTIFIC POSTS AND AFFILIATIONS

2008 - President, Plazi, Bern, Switzerland

2005 - Director Biodiversity, Institute for Environmental Analysis and Development, Los Angeles

2005 - Research Associate, Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Bern

2004 - Visiting Curator, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

2004 - Senior Research Fellow, Center for Tropical Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

2003 - 04 US National Research Council Senior Resident Research Associate at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

2001 - Research Associate, Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution

2001 - 07 Science Team Member, Advanced Land Observation Satellite, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

1998 - Research Associate, Division of Inverterbrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York

1995 - 98 Research Scientist, Department of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History, New York (Molecular Systematics Laboratory: Rob DeSalle)

1993 - 94 Kalbfleisch Fellowship from the American Museum of Natural History, New York

1991 - 93 Postdoctoral research award from the Swiss Science Foundation for a combined morphological, biochemical and molecular study of Cataglyphis ants (two years). Collaboration of the Zoological Instiut, University of Zurich and Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London

1990 - 91 Fellowship of the Janggen-Poehn-foundation, Switzerland for studies on ants in Australia and South America

1988 - 90 Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

2009 Data Publishing Framework Task Group, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

2008 Citation Task Group, GBIF

2004 - Interim Steering Committee, Conservation Commons, World Conservation Union, IUCN

2003 - Advisory Board, European Network of Biodiversity Information

2002 Invertebrate scouting workshop, Species Survival Commission / the World Conservation Union, Washington DC, October 2002.

2001 Egyptian representative at the African Regional Global Taxonomic Initiative Meeting, March 2001, Cape Town, South Africa.

1998 The Global Taxonomy Initiative: Diversitas and Systematics Agenda 2000 International Workshop, September 17 - 18, 1998, New York.

1996 - Conservation officer, International Union for the Study of Social Insects

1996 - 99 Steering committee NASA - NGO partnership program

1992 - 94 Member of the board of the Zürcherische Entomologische Gesellschaft, Zürich.

1993 - 2005 Chairman of the Social Insect Species Survival Group, Species Survival Commission of the IUCN.

PhD COMMITTEES

2005 Sébastien Lacau. Morphologie et systématique phylogénétique du genre Typhlomyrmex Mayr (Formicidae : Ectatomminae). Ministère de l'Education Nationale, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, Ministère de l'Ecologie et du Dévelopment Durable; Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 30 Septembre 2005

GRANTS

2012-2016 EU-BON. EU FP7 funding. Deputy workpackage and task leader

2012-2014 Pro-iBiosphere EU FP7 funding. Task leader

2012 EOL award to extract and supply treatment data from legacy publications. Co-PI Terry Catapano and Donat Agosti

2008-2009 GBIF Seed Money Grant: Extracting Nomenclatural Data, Species Descriptions and Collecting Events from Legacy Publications: The Zootaxa-TaxonX-ZooBank Project: SPM expansion (EU 5,000) Co-PI Terry Catapano, Bob Morris and Donat Agosti (Plazi).

2008-2009 GBIF Seed Money Grant: Extracting Nomenclatural Data, Species Descriptions and Collecting Events from Legacy Publications: The Zootaxa-TaxonX-ZooBank Project. (EU 50,000) Co-PI Zhi-Qiang Zhang (Zootaxa) and Donat Agosti (Plazi).

2007 GBIF: Neotropical Ant Catalogue: Streamlining and implementing the nomenclatorial and distribution data extraction workflow from published records as basis for an electronic catalogue, using ants as example. (EU 2,500) PI Donat Agosti, Plazi

2004 Conservation of the Qattara Depression (NW-Egypt): Producing a habitat map to support and strengthen ongoing conservation planning and implementation. Conservation Trust, National Geographic Society (USD19,480). In collaboration with Mostafa Salah.

2002 Conservation Grant, Chicago Zoo (USD3,500), in collaboration with Sofia Campiolo and Jacques Delabie, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil.

2001 Atherton Seidal Foundation Grant, Smithsonian Institution (USD50,000) to scan in and make available 2,500 ant systematics publications. In collaboration with Ted Schultz, USNM.

2000 American Museum of Natural History / Mellon Foundation: Conference award (US$10,000)

2000 - 01 American Museum of Natural History / NASA small grants program (US$15,000)

1997 - 98 NASA: MTPE program (US$105,000)

1997 - 98 NASA: MTPE program (US$ 75,000)

1997 - 98 Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History (US$29,900)

1997 - 98 National Geographic Society, Washington DC (US$15,000)

1996 - 98 Office of Provost, American Museum of Natural History: ALL Conference award (US$10,500)

1996 - 98 E.O. Wilson Foundation: ALL Conference award (US$9,000)

1996 - 98 National Science Foundation, Biotic Surveys and Inventories Program (ALL-workshop; (US$25,000)

1996 - 97 Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History (US$25,000)

1993 - 94 American Museum of Natural History, New York: Kalbfleisch Fellowship (US$22,000)

1993 - 94 Swiss National Science Foundation, Research Award (1 year, sFR 120,000)

1991 - 93 Swiss National Science Foundation, Research Award (2 years, sFR 240,000)

1991 Museum of Natural History, Geneva, Switzerland: Fellowship (3 months)

1990 - 91 Janggen-Poehn-Foundation, Switzerland (Fellowship (1 year), sFR. 25,000)

1988 - 90 Swiss National Foundation for the Advancement of Science: post doctoral fellowship (1.5 years) research project (2 years, 1 position, expandables, £75,000); 1 year extension (£40,000)

1988 Swiss Academy of Science: Travel grant (2 months, £2,500)

Continous support from various private foundations.

AWARDS and CITATIONS

2006 'Mashups mix data into global service. News Section, Nature 439, 6-7.

2002 'Formidable catalogue puts army of ants Online'. News Section, Nature 416, 115.

2001-2002 "Charting and Documenting the World's Ants and Social Wasps" selected as core project of the International Biodiversity Oberservation Year.

1999 The top science stories of 1998: "92-million-year-old ants in amber from New Jersey". Discover Magazin.

1999 Listing in Britannia Book of the Year 1999.

WORLD WIDE WEB

Plazi.org (launched 2008)

Antbase.org / Social Insects World Wide Web: A species based scientific tool, in collaboration with various colleagues, including keys, catalogues, descriptions and images mainly to ants. Currently >1M hits per year. (launched 1995, originally as Social Insects World Wide Web)

CONSULTANCIES

2003 - 04 Ant Exhibition, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

2003 - 06 Patterns of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate: Integrating Biological Point Data with Remotely Sensed Environmental Parameters. NASA (1.2M USD; 3 years) to UCLA, Los Angeles

2003 - 06 Collaborative Research: Development of new digital library applications in the context of a basic ontology for biosystematics information using the literature of entomology (ants). US-NSF/German DFG (3 years, USD 600K) to American Museum of Natural History.

2001 - 02 Bedouin based conservation of the Western Desert. Project supported by the Eyptian-Swiss Development Fund, Cairo, Egypt (14 months, 1M EP).

2001 Review of the Conservation Status of the J. Elb protected area, Egypt. Egyptian Environment Affairs Agency, Cairo, EGYPT.

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2007. Donat Agosti, Fernando Fernandez and Vanderlei Canhas. Creating a new online catalogue of the Neotropical ants. Campinas November 29 - December 1, 2007.

2006. Eldridge Adams, Jacques Delabie and Donat Agosti. Ant Community Ecology. IUSSI 2006 Congress, Washington DC, July 30 - August 4, 2006.

2005. Tom Moritz, Donat Agosti, Silvio Olivieri, Dora Canhos and Roberto Cavalcanti. Principles and Tools for Freely Sharing Conservation Information. 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Brasilia, July 15 -19.

2004 Coorganizier with Catherine Graham, SUNY Stony Brooks, "What could species distribution models add to conservation biology" symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, New York, 28 July to 1 August, 2004.

2004 Coorganizier with Tom Moritz, Director of Libraries, American Museum of Natural History, "The Biodiversity Commons" workshop at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, New York, 28 July to 1 August, 2004.

2002 Organzier, "The Virtual Social Insect" Symposium at the International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Sapporo, Japan, 28th July to 3 August, 2002.

2000 Coorganizer with Tom Moritz, Director of Library, AMNH, of "Virtual Congo Ant" Workshop at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, in collaboration with the Digital Library Project funded by the Mellon Foundation, October 16-18.

1999 Coorganizer of a breakout group "Biodiversity indicators and modeling: understanding the distribution and condition of biodiversity" at the final meeting of the "NASA/NGO partnership program", June

1999 Coorganizer of " Development of Global Land Cover Products ", two day workshop sponsored by NASA, Conservation International and the American Museum of Natural History. February

1997 Co-organizer of a training course for Brazilian students "Methods and Techniques for Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity, with an Emphases on Social Insects", Uruçuca, Bahia, Brazil

1996 Co-organizer of an international workshop on "Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity: Standard Methods for Ground Living Ants", Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil.

1986 Organization of the symposium Taxonomy and Zoogeography of the Formica rufa species group at the X. International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Munich (with C.A.Collingwood).

OTHER PROFESSIONAL WORK

2008-2012 Event Manager, Residence, Embassy of Switzerland, Teheran, Iran (50% position)

VOLUNTARY WORK

2010-2012 Vertreter der Deutschen Botschafstschule Teheran beim Weltverband Deutscher Auslandsschulen

2009-2012 Vizepräsident, Vorstand des Schulvereins der Deutschen Botschaftsschule Teheran, Teheran

2008-2009 Elternvertreter, Deutsche Botschaftsschule Teheran, Teheran

2005-2008 Elternrat, Klasse 1a, Kirchenfeldschulhaus, Bern

2005 Swiss delegate to the European Union Foreign Affairs Spouses' Associations EUFASA

2004 - Vizepräsident, Verein der Angehörigen des versetzbaren Personals des Eidgenössischen Departementes für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten (ACF/VEEDA)

EDITORIAL COMMITTEES

2010- Zookeys (ants)

2007- BiomMedCentral

REFEREEING

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Annales Zoologici
Biodiversity Informatics
Bulletin of Entomological Research
California Academy of Sciences
Diversity and Distributions
Insectes Sociaux
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
Journal Zoologique Africaine
Leverhulme Trust
Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft
Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution
Molecular Systematics and Evolution
Myrmecological News
National Geographic Society
Novitates, American Museum of Natural History
Psyche
Revue Suisse de Zoologie Systematic Entomology
US National Science Foundation
Zootaxa
Zookeys

MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIETIES

Association for Tropical Biology
Cambridge Entomological Club
Gesellschaft für biologische Systematik
International Society of Environmental Journalists
International Society of Hymenoptersists
International Union for the Study of Social Insects (French, German, US Sections)
Linnean Society London
Royal Entomological Society
Schweizerische und Zürcherische Entomologische Gesellschaft
Society for Conservation Biology
Society of Environmental Journalists
Swiss Systematics Society
Systematics Association
Taxonomic Data Working Group (TDWG)
Willy Hennig Society

PUBLICATIONS

Books and edited volumes

Agosti, D., Majer, J., Alonso, E. and Schultz, T., (eds.). 2000. Ants: Standard methods for measuring and monitoring biodiversity. Biological Diversity Handbook Series. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington D.C., 20+280pp. Pdf-version, 16 MB

Agosti, D., Majer, J., Alonso, E. and Schultz, T., (eds.). 2000. Sampling Ground-dwelling Ants: Case Studies from the Worlds' Rain Forests. School of Environmental Biology Bulletin 18, 118pp Pdf version

Scientific publications

Pdf-versions of publications

Patterson, D.J., Egloff, W., Agosti, D., Eades, D., Franz, N., Hagedorn, G., Rees, J., Remsen, D.P. 2014. Scientific names of organisms: attribution, rights, and licensing. BMC Research Notes 2014, 7:79 doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-79

Hardisty, A., Roberts, D. and the Biodiversity Informatics Community, 2013. A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities. BMC Ecology 2013, 13:16 doi:10.1186/1472-6785-13-16.

Smith, V., Georgiev, T., Stoev, P., Biserkov, J., Miller, J., Livermore, L., Baker E., Mietchen D., Couvreur T. L. P. , Mueller G., Dikow T., Helgen K. M., Frank J., Agosti D., Roberts D., Penev L. 2013. Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal. Biodiversity Data Journal. 09/2013; 1. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e995

Penev L., Catapano T., Agosti D., et al. 2012. Implementation of TaxPub, an NLM DTD extension for domain-specific markup in taxonomy, from the experience of a biodiversity publisher. In: Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) Proceedings 2012 [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Center for Biotechnology Information (US); 2012.

Miller, J., T. Dikow, D. Agosti, G. Sautter, T. Catapano, L. Penev, Z.-Q. Zhang, D. Pentcheff, R. Pyle, S. Blum, C. Parr, C. Freeland, T. Garnett, L.S. Ford, B. Muller, L. Smith, G. Strader, T. Georgiev & L. Bénichou. 2012. From taxonomic literature to cybertaxonomic content. BMC Biology, 10: 87.

Seltman, K.C. and 42 co-author. 2012. A hymenopterists’ guide to the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology: utility, clarification, and future directions. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 27: 67–88, doi: 10.3897/JHR.27.2961

Hossein Nezhad, S., Pashaei Rad, S., Firouzi, F., and Agosti, D. 2012. New and additional records for the ant fauna from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 55: 65-74.

Hagedorn, G., Mietchen, D., Morris, R.A., Agosti, D., Penev, L., Berendsohn, W., and Hobern, D. 2011. Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information. ZooKeys 150: 127-149. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2189

Moritz, T.,Krishnan, S., Roberts, D., Ingwersen, P., Agosti, D., Penev, L., Cockerill, M. and Chavan, V. 2011. Towards mainstreaming of biodiversity data publishing: recommendations of the GBIF Data Publishing Framework Task Group.BMC Bioinformatics 2011, 12(Suppl 15):S1. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/S15/S1

Penev, L., Lyal, C.H.C, Weitzman, A., Morse, D.R., King, D., Sautter, G., Georgiev, T., Morris, R.A., Catapano, T., and Agosti, D. 2011. XML schemas and mark-up practices of taxonomic literature. ZooKeys 01/2011; DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2213

Penev,L., Hagedorn, G., Mietchen, D., Georgiev, T., Stoev, P., Sautter, G., Agosti, D., Plank, A., Balke, M., Hendrich, L., and Erwin, T. 2011. Interlinking journal and wiki publications through joint citation: Working examples from ZooKeys and Plazi on Species-ID. Zookeys 90: 1-12, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.90.1369

Firouzi, F., Pashaei Rad, S., Hossein Nezhad, S., and Agosti, D. 2011. Four new records of ants from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 52(1): 71-78. doi: 10.1080/09397140.2011.10638481

Collingwood, C.A., Agosti, D., Sharaf, M.R. and van Harten, A. 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. Arthropod fauna of the United Arab Emirates 4: 405-474

Penev L, Agosti D, Georgiev T, Catapano T, Miller J, Blagoderov V, Roberts D, Smith VS, Brake I, Ryrcroft S, Scott B, Johnson NF, Morris RA, Sautter G, Chavan V, Robertson T, Remsen D, Stoev P, Parr C, Knapp S, Kress WJ, Thompson FC, Erwin T. 2010. Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples. ZooKeys 50: 1-16. doi: 10?.3897/zookeys.50.538.

Penev, L., Agosti, D., Georgiev, T., Catapano, T., Miller, J., Blagoderov, V., Roberts, D., Smith, V.S., Brake, I., Rycroft, S., Scott, B., Johnson, N.F., Morris, R.A., Sautter, G., Chavan, V., Robertson, T., Remsen, D., Stoev, P., Parr, C., Knapp, S., Kress, W.J., Thompson, C.F., and Erwin, T. 2010. Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples. Zookeys 50: 1–16, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.538

Blagoderov, V., Brake, I., Georgiev, T., Penev, L., Roberts, D., Rycroft, S., Scott, B. Agosti, D., Catapano, T., and Smith, V.S., 2010. Streamlining taxonomic publication: a working example with Scratchpads and ZooKeys. Zookeys 50: 17–28, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.539

Penev, L., Roberts, D., Smith, V., Agosti, and D., Erwin, T. 2010. Taxonomy shifts up a gear: New publishing tools to accelerate biodiversity research. Zookeys 50: i–iv, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.543

Michael D. Weiser, Sanders N.J., Agosti, D.,Andersen, A.N., Ellison, A.M., Fisher, B.L., Gibb, H., Gotelli, N.J. Gove, A.D., Gross, K., Gue´nard, B., Janda, M., Kaspari, M., Lessard, J.P.,Longino, J.T., Majer, J.D., Menke, S.B., McGlynn, T.P., Parr, C.L., Philpott, S.M., Retana, J., Suarez, A.V., Vasconcelos, H.L., Yanoviak, S.P. and Dunn, R.R., 2010. Canopy and litter ant assemblages share similar climate–species density relationships. Biology Letters 6, 769-772. (pdf).

Agosti, D., W. Egloff. 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 (pdf)

Agosti, D. 2009. Dear Carolus. pp 1 - 3 in: Knapp, S., and Wheeler, Q. (eds): Letters to Linnaeus. The Linnean Society, London.Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 (pdf)

Dunn, R. R., Agosti, D. and 22 authors. 2009. Climatic drivers of hemispheric assymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness. Ecology Letters 12 (4), 324-333.

Cochard, R., D. Agosti. 2008. Putting Ant-Acacia mutualism to the fire. Science 319, 1759-1760.

Prates-Clark, C.d. C., Saatchi, S. S. D. Agosti. 2008. Predicting geographical distribution models of high-value timber trees in the Amazon Basin using remotely sensed data. Ecological Modelling 211, 309-323.

Penev, L., Erwin, T., Thompson, C.F., Sues, H.-D., Engel, M., Agosti, D., Pyle, R., Ivie, M., Assmann, T., Henry, T., Miller, J., Ananjeva, N., Casale, A., Lourenco, W., Golocatch, S., Fagerholm, H.-P., TAili, S., Alonso-Zarazaga, and Nieukerken, E. von. 2008. ZooKeys, unlocking Earth’s incredible biodiversity and building a sustainable bridge into the public domain: From “print-based” to “web-based” taxonomy, systematics, and natural history. ZooKeys Editorial Opening PaperZooKeys 1 (2008) : 1-7

Agosti, D., Klingenberg, C., Sautter, G., Johnson, N., Stephenson, C., and Catapano, T., 2007. Why not let the computer save you time by reading the taxonomic papers for you? Biológico, São Paulo, v.69, suplemento 2, 545-548, 2007 ((pdf)).

Dunn, R.R., Sers, N.J., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Laurent, E., Lessard, J.-P., Agosti, D., ersen, A.N., Brühl, C., Cerda, X., Ellison, A.M., Fisher, B.L., Gibb, H., Gotelli, N.J., Gove, A., Guenard, B., Ja, M., Kaspari, M., Longino, J.T., Majer, J., Mcglynn, T.P., Menke, S.B., Parr, C.L., Philpott, S.M., Pfeiffer, M., Retana, J., Suarez, A.V. & Vasconcelos, H.L. 2007: Global Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Biodiversity Biogeography: A new database and its possibilities. Myrmecological News 10: 77-83. (pdf).

Sautter, G., Böhm, K., D. Agosti. 2007. A quantitative comparison of XML schemas for taxonomic publications. Biodiversity Informatics 4, 1 - 13. (pdf)

Sautter, G., K. Böhm, D. Agosti. 2006. A combining approach to find all taxon names (FAT) in legacy biosisystematics literature. Biodiversity Informatics 3, 41-53. (pdf)

Polaszek, A., Agosti, D., 24 coauthors, 2005. A universal register for animal names. Nature, 437, 477

Lauk, C., Brão, C.R.F. Agosti, D., 2003.Listado de museos con colecciones de hormigas. Pp. 419 - 424, Fernández, F.(ed.). Introducción a las Hormigas de la región Neotropical. Instituto deInvestigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexer von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia.XXVI + 398 pp.

Agosti, D., Linder, P., Burckhardt, D., Martinez, S., Löbl, I., Loizeau, P.-A. 2003. Switzerland’s role as a hotspot of type specimens. Nature 421, 889.

Agosti, D., Collingwood, C.A., Tigar, B.J. 2003. Key and synopsis of the ants in the United Arab Emirate. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft (in press).

Agosti, D., Johnson, N.F., 2003. Taxonomists need better access to published data. Nature 417, 222.

Agosti, D., Alonso, L.E. 2003. El Protocolo ALL: un estándar para lacolección de hormigas del suelo. Pp. 415 - 418 in Fernández, F. (ed.).Introducción a las Hormigas de la región Neotropical. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexer von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia.XXVI + 398 pp.

Agosti, D. 2003. Encyclopedia of life: should species description equal gene sequence? Trends in Evology Evolution 18, 273.

Agosti, D., Johnson, N.F., 2003. La nuevataxonomía de hormigas. Pp. 45 - 48 in Fernández, F. (ed.). Introducción a lasHormigas de la región Neotropical. Instituto de Investigación de RecursosBiológicos Alexer von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia. XXVI + 398 pp.

Gökçen, O.A., Morgan, D.E., Dani, F.R., Agosti,D., Wehner, R., 2002. Dufour gl contents of ants of the Cataglyphisbicolor group. Journal of Chemical Ecology 28 (1), 71-87.

Agosti, D., Moritz, T. 2002. Ants online - towards the BiodiversityCommons. Species 37 (In press).

Saatchi S.S., D. Agosti, K. Alger, J. Delabie, J. Musinsky. 2001.Fragmentation loss of primary forest in the Southern Bahian Atlantic Forestof Brazil with Radar imagery. Conservation Biology 15 (4), 867-875.

Johnson, C., Agosti, D., Delabie, J.H., Dumpert, K., Williams, D.J., vonTschirnhaus, M., Maschwitz, U. 2001. Acropyga Ayteca ants (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) with scale insects (Sternorhyncha: Coccoidea): 20 Million years of intimate symbiosis. American Museum Novitates 3335: 18pp, 10 figs.

Grimaldi, D., and Agosti, D., 2000. A Formicine in New Jersey Cretaceousamber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), early evolution of the ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97: 13678-13683.

Delabie, J.H.C., Vasconcelos, H.L., Vilhena. J.M.S. and Agosti, D., 2000.First record of the ant genus Probolomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerini: Platythyreini) in Brazil. Revista de Biología Tropical 49 (1): 397-398.

Delabie, J.H.C., Agosti, D., and Nascimento, I.C. do. 2000. Litter ant communities of the Brazilian Atlantic rain forestregion. P.p 1-17, in: Agosti, D., Majer, J., Alonso, E. Schultz, T.,(eds.). 2000. Sampling Ground-dwelling Ants: Case Studies from the Worlds' RainForests. School of Environmental Biology Bulletin 18, 118pp..

Bestelmeyer, B.T., D. Agosti, L.E. Alonso, C.R.F.Brão, W.L. Brown Jr., J.H.C. Delabie, R. Silvestre. 2000. FieldTechniques for the Study of Ground-Dwelling Ants: An Overview, Description Evaluation. Pp. 122-144, in: Agosti, D., Majer, J., Alonso, E. Schultz, T.,(eds.). Ants: Stard methods for measuring monitoring biodiversity.Biological Diversity Hbook Series. Smithsonian Institution Press. WashingtonD.C., 20+280pp.

Alonso, L.E., D. Agosti. 2000. Biodiversity Studies, Monitoring, Ants: An Overview. Pp. 1-8, in: Agosti, D., Majer, J., Alonso, E. Schultz,T., (eds.). Ants: Stard Methods for Measuring Monitoring Biodiversity.Biological Diversity Hbook Series. Smithsonian Institution Press. WashingtonD.C., 20+280pp.

Agosti, D., and Alonso, L.E.. 2000. The ALL Protocol: A Stard Protocolfor the Collection of Ground-Dwelling Ants. Pp. 204-206, in: Agosti, D., Majer,J., Alonso, E. Schultz, T., (eds.). Ants: Stard methods for measuring monitoring biodiversity. Biological Diversity Hbook Series. SmithsonianInstitution Press. Washington D.C., 20+280pp.

Agosti, D. 2000. Social Insects Specialists Group. Species 34: 84-95.

Oldham, N.J., Morgan, E.D., Agosti, D., Wehner, R., 1999. Species recognition from postpharyngeal gl contents ofants to the Cataglyphis bicolor group. Journal of Chemical Ecology 25(6),1383-1393.

Brão, C. R. F., J. L. M. Diniz, D. Agosti J., and Delabie, J. H.. 1999. Revision of the Neotropical ant subfamily Leptanilloidinae. Systematic Entomology 24,17-36.

Agosti, D., Moog, J., and Maschwitz, U., 1999.Revision of the Oriental Plant-ant genus Cladomyrma. American Museum Novitates 3283, 24pp, 35 figs, 2 tables.

O'Keefe, S.T. Agosti, D., 1998. A new speciesof Probolomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Journalof the New York Entomological Society 105(3-4), 190-192.

Agosti, D., 1998. Two new enigmatic Melophorus ants (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) in Australia. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 105(3),161-169.

Agosti, D., 1998. The ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) types in Argentine collections. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 105, 199-205.

Agosti, D., Grimaldi, D. Carpenter, J.M.,1998. Oldest known ant fossils discovered. Nature 391, 447

Tigar, B.J., Collingwood, C.A., Agosti, D.,1997. Introduced ants in the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Arid Environments37, 505-512.

Moog, J., Drude, T. Maschwitz, U. Agosti, D.1997. Flood control by ants:water bailing behavior in the south-east Asian plant ant genus Cladomyrma (Formicidae, Formicinae). Naturwissenschaften 84, 242-245.

Grimaldi, D., Agosti, D. and Carpenter, J.M., 1997. New rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, their phylogenetic relationship. American Museum Novitates 3208, 43pp., 24figs, 1 table.

Agosti, D., 1997. The Social Insects Specialist Group. Species 29, 51.

Agosti, D., 1997. Convention of Biological Diversity, biodiversity indicators, SSC. Species 29: 23-24.

Desalle, R., Agosti, D., Whiting, M.,Perez-Sweeney, B, Bang, R., Remsen, and Baker, R., 1996. Crossroads,milestones and landmarks in insect development evolution: Implications forSystematics. Aliso 14, 305-321.

Collingwood, C.A. and Agosti, D., 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera)of Saudi Arabia (Part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15, 300-385.

Agosti, D., C. Austin, O.A. Gökçen, W.A. König, E.D. Morgan, E.D. Scott, R. Wehner, (1996). (S)-2-Methyl-1-hexanol, characteristic mibular gland substance of ants in the Cataglyphis bicolor group. Chemoecology 7, 57-60.

Agosti, D., 1996. The Dominance of Social Insects. Species 26-27, 26-27.

Agosti, D., Jacobs, D. Desalle, R., 1996. On combining protein sequences nucleic acid sequences in phylogeneticanalysis: The homeobox protein case. Cladistics 12, 65-82.

Agosti, D., 1995. A revision of the south American species of the ant genus Probolomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Journal of the New York EntomologicalSociety 102, 429-434.

Wehner, R., Wehner, S. and Agosti, D., 1994. Patterns of biogeographic distribution within the bicolor species group of the North African desert ant,Cataglyphis Foerster 1850 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Senckenbergiana biologica 74, 163-191.

Agosti, D., Mohammed, M., and Chung, A., 1994. Has the diversity of tropical leaf litter fauna been underestimated? An indication from a study of ants from W-Malaysian low land rain forest. Tropical Biodiversity, 2, 270-275.

Agosti, D., 1994e. Are Social Insects in need to be conserved? Species 21/22, 91

Agosti, D., 1994d. The conservation of Social Insects: A joint edeaveaour of IUSSI IUCN. Proceedings of the twelveth Congress of the InternationalUnion for the Study of Social Insectes, Paris, August 1994, 369.

Agosti, D., 1994c. Conservation of pests? Proceedings of the twelfth Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insectes, Paris,August 1994, 34.

Agosti, D., 1994b. The phylogeny of the ant tribe Formicini (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) with the description of a new genus. Systematic Entomology 19,93-117.

Agosti, D., 1994a. A new inquiline ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cataglyphis and its phylogenetic relationship. Journal of Natural History 28, 913-919.

Agosti, D. and Cherix, D., 1994. Die gefährdeten Ameisenarten der Schweiz.Pp. 45 - 47. In: Duelli, P. ed., Rote Listen der gefährdeten Tiere der Schweiz. Bundesamt für Umwelt, Wald und Lschaft, Bern, Switzerland.

Agosti, D., 1993. Widerspiegelt die Nestform die Staatsform der Ameisen? In: Emmenegger, B., Gurtner, K. und Reller, A. (eds.),Baukultur-Wohnkultur-Oekologie. Verlag der Fachvereine, Zuerich und Teubner,Stuttgart. pp. 85-97

Morgan, D., Agosti, D. and Keegans, S., 1992. Chemical secretions species discrimination in Cataglyphis-ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).Proceedings of the eleventh Congress of the International Union for the Studyof Social Insectes, Bangalore, August 1990, 402-403.

Keegans, S.J., Morgan, E.D., Agosti, D. and Wehner, R., 1992. What do Glands tell us about Species? A Chemical Case Study of Cataglyphis Ants.Biochemical Systematics Ecology 20(6), 559-572

Burckhardt, D. and Agosti, D., 1992. New records of South American Peloridiidae (Homoptera: Coleorrhyncha). Revista Chilena de Entomologia 19,71-75.

Agosti, D., 1992. Revision of the ant genus Myrmoteras of the Malay Archipelago (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revue Suisse Zoologique 99, 405-429

Agosti, D., 1991. Revision of the Oriental ant genus Cladomyrma with an outline of the higher classification of the Formicinae (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 16, 293-310

Agosti, D., 1990b. Review reclassification of Cataglyphis (Hymenoptera,Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 24, 1457-1505

Agosti, D., 1990a. What makes the Formicini the Formicini? Actes des Colloques Insectes Sociaux 6, 295-303

Agosti, D. and Bolton, B., 1990b. New characters to separate Formica L. Lasius Fabricius. Entomologist's Gazette 41, 149-156

Agosti, D. and Bolton, B., 1990a. The identity of Andragnathus, a forgotten formicine ant genus. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 126, 75-77

Agosti, D., and E. Jungen-Hauschteck. 1988.Polymorphism of males in Formica exsecta Nylander(Hym.: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux, 34(4), 280-290

Espadaler, X. and Agosti, D., 1987. Monomorium boltoni n.sp. from São Nicolau (Cape Verde Isls) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60(3-4), 295-299.

Agosti, D. and Collingwood, C.A., 1987c. Taxonomy Zoogeography of the Formica rufa species-group - Discussion. Proceedings of the tenth Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insectes. Munich, August 1986,105-106

Agosti, D. and Collingwood, C.A., 1987b. A provisional list a key to the Balkan ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): II. Key to the worker caste,including North and Central Europe. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60(3-4), 261-293

Agosti, D. and Collingwood, C.A., 1987a. A provisional list and a key to the Balkan ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60(1-2), 51-62

Espadaler, X. and Agosti, D., 1985. Monomorium hesperium Emery: description de la femelle (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 58(3-4), 295-297

Agosti, D., 1983b. Die Verbreitung von Ameisenarten in Pflanzengesellschaften des Randens SH. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 56, 257

Agosti, D., 1983a. Zur Insektenfauna der Umgebung der Vogelwarte Sempach, Kanton Luzern. XIII. Hymenoptera 2: Formicidae (Ameisen). Entomologische Berichte Luzern 10, 91-92

Book reviews

Agosti, D.,Army Ants: The Biology of Social Predation by W.H.Gotwald, Jr., Cornell University Press. Bulletin of Entomological Research

Agosti, D.,Army Ants: The Biology of Social Predation by W.H.Gotwald, Jr., Cornell University Press. Journal of the New York Entomological Society

Agosti, D., 1996. The King of the Ants. review of A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton, Harvard University Press. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 103(3), 337-339.

Agosti, D., 1998. Ameisen - beobachten, bestimmen. Naturbuch Verlag. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft. (in press).

Agosti, D., 1999. Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification by Steve Shattuck. Monographs in Invertebrate Taxonomy 3. Systematic Entomology 24, 395-396.

Agosti, D., 2003. The last of its kind. Review of Wilson: Pheidole in the New World. Harvard University Press. Nature 424, 727

Agosti, D., 2004. The last of its kind. Pheidole in the New World: A dominant, hypderdiverse ant genus. Harvard University Press, 794pp.. Systematic Entomology 29, 276-277.

Agosti, D., 2004. Bolton, B. 2003: Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Myrmekologische Nachrichten 6, 83-84.

Agosti, D., 2005. Productive ants run ahead: Ants of Japan. Gakken, Tokyo, The ant genus Proceratium in the extant and fossil record, and Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Systematic Entomology 30, 175-176.

Abstracts

Agosti, D., Majer, J., Tennant, L., and Schulz, T. (1997). Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity: Standard Methods for Ground-Living Ants. In: Tropical Diversity, Origins, Maintenance, and Conservation. Symposium and annual Meeting, The Association for Tropical Biology and Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica.

Campiolo, S., Delabie, J. H.C., Agosti, D. 2001. Formigas Ameaçadas No Brasil: Definição Do Problema. Anais do XV Encontro de Mirmecologia, IAPAR, Londrina –PR, 2001, 445-447.

Campiolo, S., Delabie, J.H.C., Sanches, C.L.G., Santos, J.R.M.; Agosti, D. & Nascimento, I.C., 2001. Relação riqueza genérica e específica: um instrumento de apoio para inventários rápidos em áreas de Mata Atlântica. Anais do XV Encontro de Mirmecologia, IAPAR, Londrina –PR, 301-303.

Agosti, D., Saatchi, S., Delabie, H. C. & BrandÃo, C. R. F. 2001. Mapping and monitoring Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil. In: Earth Observation Research Center & National Space Development Agency of Japan (eds) Proceedings of the 1st ALOS PI Workshop. Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. 255-260.

Alves, H.S.R., Delabie, J.H.C., Franca, V.C., Sanches, C.L.G., Campiolo, S. & Agosti, D. 2000. Estudo geográfico das coletas de Formicidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) na região das Guianas. XIII Encontro Nacional de Geógrafos, João Pessoa, -PB, Caderno de Resumos, 61; CD-Contribuições Científicas.

Campiolo, S., Delabie, J.H.C.; Agosti, D., 2003. Distribuição geográfica: uma ferramenta para avaliação do status de conservação de Dinoponera lucida Emery. Anais do XVI Simpósio de Mirmecologia, UFSC, Florianópolis –SC, 359-360.

Campiolo, S, Santos, D. da S, Delabie, J.H.C., Nascimento, I.C. do & Agosti, D. 1998. Variação na comunidade de formigas (Hymenoptera; Formicidae) entre ambientes derivados da Mata Atlântica e com diferentes graus de antropização. Livro de Resumos, V Seminário de Pesquisa da UESC, Ilhéus –BA, 58.

Delabie, J.H.C; CAMPIOLO, S.; OLIVEIRA, R.M. de; CORDEIRO, C.M.; SANTOS, A.P. dos; MELO, T.N.; CAMPOS, D.O.; GUEDES, P.S.N.; SANTOS, K.A. dos; REIS, Y.T.; SANTOS, D.S.; NASCIMENTO, I.C. do; FRAGA, N. de J.; MIRANDA, D.; SOUZA, M.L. de; SANTOS, J.R.M. dos; CARMO, J.C.S. do & AGOSTI, D., 1999. Progressos recentes no estudo pluridisciplinar do corredor de Mata Atlântica de Maraú a Canavieiras – Bahia. Livro de Resumos do VI Seminário de Pesquisa da UESC. Editus, Ilhéus, -BA, 31.

Fraga, N. de J.; Souza, C.N.; Santos, K.A. dos; Campiolo, S., Delabie, J.H.C. & Agosti, D., 1999. As formigas de pastagens no sudeste da Bahia: aspectos qualitativos e quantitativos. Resumos, XII Encontro de Zoologia do Nordeste, Feira de Santana –BA, 308.

Nascimento, I.C. do, Delabie, J.H.C., Agosti, D., Santos, D. da S. 1999. Formigas da serapilheira (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) do Parque Nacional do Monte Pascoal – BA. Resumos, XII Encontro de Zoologia do Nordeste, Feira de Santana –BA, 311.

Sanches, C.L.G., Campiolo, S., Delabie, J.H.C., Nascimento, I.C., Santos, J.R.M. & Agosti, D. 2002. Formigas dos ambientes agrários e naturais no sul da Bahia. Livro de Resumos, VIII Seminário de Iniciação Científica da UESC, Ilhéus, -BA, 105-107.

Reports

Agosti, D., 1984. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Ameisenfauna. In: Landolt, E., ed.. Bericht Ueber die Exkursion des Geobotanischen Institutes ETHZ, Stiftung Ruebel, in die Ostpyrenaeen, 5.-12.Juli 1984. pp. 45-50

Agosti, D., 1987a. Bericht über den Mittelwald Zürich-Hönggerberg. Bericht zuhanden des Stadtforstamtes Zuerich.

Agosti, D., 1987b. Bericht Sihlwald: Ameisen (Hym. Formicidae). Bericht zuhanden des Stadtforstamtes Zuerich

Collingwood, C.A. & Agosti, D., 1986. Taxonomy and Zoogeography of the Formica rufa species-group. Supplement to the workshop "Taxonomy and Zoogeography of the Formica rufa species-group". Proceedings of the tenth Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insectes. Munich, August 1986, 17pp, 15pl.

Jutzeler, D. & Agosti, D., 1991. Pflegekonzept zur Erhaltung der Maculinea rebeli populationen im Sand GL. Report zuhanden des Kantons Glarus

Kloetzli, F., Kozak, A., Selldorf, P. & Agosti, D., 1981. The Vegetation of Sao Hill (Iringa distr., Tanzania). Vegetation map and report for DEH, Bern, Switzerland

Meier, Cl. & Agosti, D., 1987. Zoologische Untersuchung und Bewertung des Steinbruchs Holderbank, AG. Ausgefuehrt im Auftrag der Cementfabrik Holderbank, Rekingen

Non-scientific publications

Agosti, D., 1986. Zum 90. Geburtstag von Dr. H. Kutter. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 59(3-4), 227-228

Agosti, D., 1987. Im Refugium der Randennatur finden sich grosse Ameisenhaufen. In: Guyan, W.U., Schaffhausen: Schätze der Region. K. Augustin AG, Thayngen, p 23.

Agosti, D., 1991. Die Ameisen. Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Forschung und Technik Beilage) 42, 61 (Review of 'The Ants' by Hoelldobler and Wilson, 1990)

Agosti, D., 1992. Brauchen wir zu wissen, wie viele Arten es gibt? Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Forschung und Technik Beilage) 162, 49

Agosti, D., 1995a. Die Galapagos-Inseln unter Bevoelkerungsdruck Neue Zuercher Zeitung 64, 20

Agosti, D., 1995b Der Dinosaurier-Embryo aus der Gobi Wueste. Neue Zuercher Zeitung 90, 67

Agosti, D., 1995c. Eine Trappe wirbt am Golf fuer die Umwelt: Begleitung eines Vogelfluges mit modernster Technik. Neue Zuercher Zeitung 124,

Agosti, D., 1995d. Druck auf das US-Gesetz über gefährdete Arten. Neue Zuercher Zeitung 109, 9

Agosti, D., 1996. Ein brütender Dinosaurier. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 13, 61.

Agosti, D., 1996. Schwarzer Kaviar vor einer schwarzen Zukunft. Neue Zuercher Zeitung 295, 63

Agosti, D., 1997. Ameisen im Stress. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 41, 65

Agosti, D., 1997. Wann ist der Schutz der Biodiversiät nachhaltig? Neue Zuercher Zeitung 11, 9.

Agosti, D., 1997. Keeping an Eye on Biodiversity. Swiss Review of World Affairs (March 1997), 7-9.

Agosti, D., 1998. Die ältesten bekannten Ameisen. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 41, 65

Agosti, D., 1998. Auf der Suche nach den Wurzeln des Weins. Die Ursprünge der klassischen Rebsorten. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 86, 67.

Agosti, D., 2002. Saddams vergessene Opfer. Die Zerstörung des Lebensraums der Sumpfaraber. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 250, 7

Agosti, D., 2003. Inventare der Artenvielfalt und Urheberrecht. Probleme bei der Erstellung elektronischer Datenbanken. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 35, 58

Agosti, D., 2003. (Mit Theres Lüthi): "Der WWF-Direktor war nicht sonderlich beeindruckt von mir". Interview with Bjørn Lomborg. Weltwoche 18/03

Agosti, D., 2004. Madagaskar: Lichtblick in dunkler Zeit. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 103, 61

Agosti, D., 2004. (Mit Esther Girsberger): „Bush hat mehr Schaden angerichtet als jede andere Regierung der letzten 30 Jahre“. Wirtschaftsautor Jeremy Rifkin über den geplatzten amerikanischen Traum, Europas Chancen und ein Fruchtbarkeitsproblem. Sonntagszeitung, 31. Oktober 2004: 23

Agosti, D., 2004. Forum für freien Zugang zu Umweltdaten. Abgestuftes Urheberrecht geplant. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1. Dezember 2004.

Agosti, D., 2005. Artenvielfalt ein Thema am nächsten G-8 Gipfel. Abschluss der Biodiversitäts-Konferenz in Paris. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 24, 43 (29./30. Januar 2005).

Agosti, D., 2005. Plädoyer für ein zentrales Tiernamen-Register. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (28. September 2005)

Agosti, D. 2006. Open Access - nur ein erster Schritt? Neue Zürcher Zeitung 272, 69 (22. Nov. 2006) (pdf)

Agosti, D. 2006. 'Free' access to research should not be limited. SciDev.Net (Dec 28, 2006) (pdf)

Agosti, D. 2007. Forschungsarbeiten öffentlich gegutachten. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 7, 57 (January 10, 2007) (pdf)

Agosti, D. 2007. Urheberrecht als Hindernis für die Forschung. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 91, 19 (April 20, 2007) (pdf)

Agosti, D. 2007. Das Urheberrecht behindert die Forschung. Handelszeitung 20, 21 (Mai 16-22). (pdf)

Agosti, D. 2007. Start zur Enzyklopädie des Lebens. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 122, B5 (30. Mai 2007)

Agosti, D. 2008. Ein Erfolg fpr Open Access. Neue Zürcher Zeitung 6, B1 (9. Januar 2008)

FIELDWORK

1999-2002 Ongoing field work in Egypt, partially supported by NASA/AMNH grant.

1998 Field work in Brazil (Bahia and Para), supported by NASA and in collaboration with Sasan Saatchi, JPL, and Keith Alger, IESB.

1998 Collecting expedition to Brazil (Manaus; S?o Paulo; supported by Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History)

1997 Collecting expedition to Brazil (Bahia: PN Monte Pascoal; Ilhéus; supported by Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History)

1997 Collecting expedition to Brazil (Manaus; S?o Paulo; supported by Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History)

1996 Collecting expedition to Brazil (Bahia: Ilhéus; supported by Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History)

1995 Collecting expedition to the United Arab Emirates, supported by National Avian Research Council, Abu Dhabi, to help to identify food of Houbara (Ants).

1995 Collecting expedition to Brazil (Atlantic forest), in collaboration with Jacques Delabie, CEPLAC, Itabuna and the preparation for the ALL workshop.

1994 Collecting expedition to Argentina (Jujuy, Tucuman, Salta), supported by a National Science Foundation Grant to the Department of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History.

1993 Collecting expedition to Libya, supported by the Swiss Science Foundation

1993 Collecting expedition to Lebanon, supported by the Swiss Science Foundation

1993 Collecting expedition to Israel (in collaboration with J.Kugler and A.Hefetz, Dept. of Zoology, Tel Aviv University), supported by the Swiss Science Foundation

1992 Visitor to the Dept of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

1992 Visitor to the Insect collection, Agriculture Canada, Ontario, Canada

1992 Visitor to the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

1992 Collecting expedition to Egypt and Tunisia (supported by the Swiss Science Foundation)

1991/92 Collecting expedition to Timor (Indonesia) and West Malaysia (partly in collaboration with Dr M.Maryati, UKM, Kuala Lumpur, and U.Maschwitz, University of Frankfurt, Germany)

1991 Visitor to the Humboldt Museum, Berlin, Germany

1991 Collecting expedition to the Southern Molukkas and West Malaysia (partly in collaboration with Dr M. Maryati, UKM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

1991 Collecting expedition to Lombok, Timor, Sulawesi and Bali (in collaboration with LIPI, the Natural History Museum, Leiden, Netherlands) supported by the Janggen-Poehn-Foundation

1991 Collecting expedition to Central Australia and Southern Queensland, supported by the fellowship of the Janggen-Poehn-Foundation

1990 Collecting expedition to Chile (in collaboration with D.H. Burckhardt, Museum d'Histoire naturelle Geneva), supported by a fellowship of the Janggen- Poehn-Foundation, Switzerland

1990 Collecting expedition to West Australia, supported by a fellowship of the Janggen-Poehn-foundation

1990 Collecting expedition to Timor (in collaboration with J.D. Weintraub, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY)

1990 Collecting expedition to Syria, Jordan and Iraq (in collaboration with D.Morgan, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Keele, UK)

1989 Collecting expedition to Java and Sumatra (in collaboration with LIPI, Bogor, Indonesia, and D.H. Burckhardt und I. Loebl, Museum d'Histoire naturelle Geneva), supported by a travel grant of the Swiss Academy of Sciences

1989 Collecting expedition to Syria (in collaboration with D.Morgan, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Keele, UK)

1988 Collecting expedition to Pakistan (in collaboration with Divison of Wildlife, Islamabad)

1986 Collecting expedition to Scandinavia (with C.A. Collingwood, Leeds) and visits of the Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, Zoological Museum, Helsinki, Finland and Zoological Museum, Lund and Goteborg, Sweden; supported by ETHZ

1986 Visitor to the collections of A. Francoeur, Chicoutimi, Canada and at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. USA.

1985 Visitor to the Zoological Museum, University of Moscow and Zoological Museum of the Academy of Science of the USSR

1985 Collecting expeditions to Tunisia, the Alps, Turkey and the Balkans (with C.A.Collingwood, Leeds), supported by ETHZ

1984 Collecting expeditions to the Canary Islands, the Alps, Pyrenees and the Balkans (with C.A.Collingwood, Leeds; Ph.D.), supported by Handball club Horgen and ETHZ

1981 Fieldwork in Tanzania (Project of Prof. F. Kloetzli, Geobotanisches Institut, ETHZ), as botanical expert of the Department of External Help, Swiss government

1979 Fieldwork in Tanzania (Project of Prof. F. Kloetzli, Geobotanisches Institut. ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland), sponsored by AGAVA AG, Switzerland

LECTURES

2008

Plazi: Opening Access to the Literature of Biological Diversity. Invited lecture at the Coalition for Networed Information, Dec 8-9, 2008, Washington, DC

Semantic Web, scientific publications and machine generated hypotheses: Will machines do part of our job in the future?. BEES, University of Zürich, Dec. 3, 2008.

Plazi: XML: The gateway to state of the art taxonomic communication. (with W. Egloff). Invited lecture at Stockholm Biodiversity Informatics Symposium 2008 (Dec. 1 - 4, 2008)

Legal aspects for sharing published taxonomic literature: the Plazi approach. with W. Egloff. Invited lecture at Stockholm Biodiversity Informatics Symposium 2008 (Dec. 1 - 4, 2008)

Plazi: Access to taxonomic literature - steps into the future of communicating and sharing taxonomic knowledge. (With T. Catapano & G. Sautter). Atlas of Living Australia, Canberra, Australia (Oct. 30, 2008).

Plazi: Providing access to taxonomic literature through semantic enhancements and exposure of treatments. An overview. (With T. Catapano & G. Sautter). Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia (Oct. 29, 2008)

Plazi: Introduction. TDWG Perth (Oct. 21, 2008)

1758 Binomen - 2008 e-publications. Linnaeus Symposium, Paris, France (Aug 26, 2008)

>The Commons of data and information: The emerging biodiversity conservation knowledge commons; the case of the Conservation Commons (with T.D. Moritz and T. Hammond). IASC2008, Cheltenham, UK (Jul. 14, 2008)

The future of the Conservation Commons. World Conservation Monitoring Center, Cambridge UK (Jul. 9, 2007)

Conservation Commons: Taxonomic literature as an example on how to share knowledge. (with W. Egloff; invited lecture). Microbial Commons, Ghent, Belgium (June 12, 2008)

From printed to enhanced electronic publications. Workshop to introduce taxonomic literature mark-up (TaxonX) using GoldenGate and Plazi.org. National Forestry Institute, Taipei. March 20, 2008

Access to Biodiversity Information: From Printed to Semantic, Enhanced e-publications (Invited Speaker). Donat Agosti. International Conference, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. March 19, 2008 (invited speaker)

Access to taxonomic information: antbase.org. Symposium at the annual NDAP users meeting, Taipei, Taiwan. March 19, 2008 (invited speaker).

The future of taxonomic discovery and information exchange: Access to data and information (Invited Speaker). Edit: IPR and the Web: challenges for taxonomy. Organized by EDIT, Kew Gardens, London, UK. (invited speaker)

Plazi and marking-up taxonomic literature, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe, Germany (together with Christiana Klingenberg. January 29, 2008.

2007

If you want more time to think, then you need a digital library. Simpósio de Mirmecologia. São Paulo, Brazil. November 29, 2007 (Invited Speaker).

Learning how to contribute to the construction of the spider digital library. Zoological Seminar, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil.

Antbase.org - Freier Zugang als Grundlage für die Wissenschaft. 3. Wikipedia Tag, Bern, Switzerland. September 29, 2007 (Invited speaker

Literature and interoperability: a working example using ants. TDWG Bratislava Meeting. September 18, 2007. (Invited Speaker; with Terry Catapano).

TaxonX: An Overview. Conservation Commons / OASIS meeting, Arlington, VA, USA. June 26, 2007 (with Terry Catapano)

The future os scientific communication. Seminar, Zoologisches Institut, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland. June 5, 2007. (ppt)

Ants and the Creative Commons. Tweak festival (Launch of the Swiss Creative Commons Licence), Zürich, Switzerland. May 26, 2007.

Open Access to Systematics Literatur. General Assembly of the Intenational Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Washington DC, USA, May 11, 2007.

Access to systematics literature and the publishers. Encyclopedia of Life IT meeting. Woods Hole, Feb 12, 2007

2006

Copyright, Biopiracy and the Taxonomic Impediment. Zoobank meeting. London Zoo, 28. Feb. 2006. (ppt)

2005

Is copyright undermining biodiversity research and conservation? International conference on biodiversity: Science and governance. UNESCO, Paris, January 26

Was ich nicht weiss, macht mich nicht heiss – oder warum Systematik (noch nicht) wichtig ist… Seminar, Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, March 16

Die Zukunft der Systematik, oder warum Namen wieder wichtig werden. Biologisches Colloquium, Universität Ulm, Germany, June 7, 2005

Using freely available data to analyze conservatin priorities.(With Roberto Cavalcanti). XIX Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, August 2005

The units of taxonomy (invited lecture; with James M. Carpenter). 5th Biennial Meeting of the Systematics Association, Cardiff, August 23

Taxonomic publications: past and future. 8. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Sytematische Biologie, Basel, September 14

Emerging opportunities through sharing information on ants over the Internet XVII Simpósio de Mirmecologia- Biodiversidade e Bioindicação Campo Grande, 06 a 11 de novembro de 2005 (invited plenary speaker)

Biodiversity as seen from the Red List. Founding meeting of the Bahian Red List, Universitas estadual Santa Cruz, Bahia, Brazil. November 3, 2005. (invited speaker and participant)

Copyright: the new taxonomic impediment. (With Norm Johnson). Symposium: Revolutionising taxonomy through an open-access web-register for animal names and descriptions at the American Entomological Society Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, November 9 (invited speaker)

2004

Social Insects Specialists Group. Species Survival Commission meeting, Bangkok, November 16, 2004

Monitoring? Social Insects and data sharing. Conservation Forum at the 3. World Conservation Congress, Bangkok, November 19, 2004

The Biodiversity Commons: The scientific perspective. Annual Meeting of the Society of Conservation Biology, New York, July 30, 2004

The impact of detailed field sampling. Annual Meeting of the Society of Conservation Biology, New York, August 2, 2004

2003

Modeling distribution patterns of Malagasy ants. Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Cincinnati, October 25, 2003

2002

The Vision. Introduction to The Virtual Social Insects. Symposium at the 14th International Conference of International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Sapporo. July 30, 2002.

The Phylogeny of Formicidae (Hymenoptera): Evaluation of Key Characters and alternative Hypotheses of Relationship. Phylogeny of Ants Symposium at the 14th International Conference of International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Sapporo. Aug 1, 2002. (In collaboration with Roberto Keller).

The Social Insects Specialists Group. Biodiversity and Conservation Symposium, Symposium at the 14th International Conference of International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Sapporo. July 30, 2002.

Eindrücke eines Ameisenforschenden in Cyberspace. Zürcherische Entomologische Gesellschaft. November 1, 2002.

2001

Mapping and monitoring Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil. 1st ALOS PI Workshop, March 28 - 30, 2001, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

Remote Sensing technologies for the classification of landscapes and modeling of the distribution of ants. Invited speaker at the Section A Symposium: Computer-based technologies for studying insects. Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, December 10, 2001, San Diego.

2000

Social Insects and Conservation: The Social Insects Specialists Group Report. Species Survival Commission meeting prior to the World Conservation Union General Assembly (IUCN), Amman, October 4.

1999

Mapping forest fragments and loss of biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest of Southern Bahia, Brazil. Final Symposium of NASA/NGO/Museum pilot program, Washington D.C., June 1999.

1998

Biodiversidade Tropical de formigas: importância, ténicas de coletas e analise por sensorimento remoto. Semin?rio do IPAM, Universidad Federal de Para, Belem. June 4, 1998.

Global and Regional Ant Surveys: A Model Approach? 6th Annual Meeting of the Directors, Major Systematic Entomology Facilities. April 17, 1998.

The Rio Process. Seminar at the Conservation Biology Group at the American Museum of Natural History. 4.3.1998

Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity: The Atlantic forest, ants and Radar. Lecture at the Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Group at the University of Maryland, College Park, ML (2.28.1998)

1997

The need of biodiversity inventories within monitoring. Lecture and plenary discussion at the 8th Global Biodiversity Forum, Montreal (28-31 August), prior to SBSTTA 3

Social Insects as indicators and monitoring tools for biodiversity. Lecture at the sixth Global Biodiversity Forum, New York (3-4 April), prior to CSD

1996

The conservation of Social Insects: Some thoughts. Lecture at the National Museums, Nairobi, Kenya (15. January, 1996)

1995

The phylogeny of the ants. Meeting of the International Society of Hymenopterists, Davis, CA. (with J.M. Carpenter)

1994

Conservation of Social Insects. 67th meeting of the Species Survival Commission / IUCN, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Conservation of Pests? 12th International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Paris, FRANCE, 22.8.1994.

1993

The genetics of the Cataglyphis bicolor group. Entomologisches Institut der Eidgenoessischen Technischen Hochschule Zurich, SWITZERLAND, 15.1.1993

The biochemistry of the Cataglyphis bicolor group. Terrestrische Okologie, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, SWITZERLAND, 25.2.1993

Genetical and biochemical aspects of ants of the genus Cataglyphis. Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, 28.4.1993

Have two cryptic, sympatric ant species the same foraging behaviour? Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum London, U.K., 1.7.1993

1992

Cladistics. Methodenseminar des Zoologischen Museums der Universitat Zurich, Zurich, SWITZERLAND, 29.1.1992

Oekologie und Biogeographie der Suedoestlichen Molukken. Seminar an der Abteilung fuer Neurobiologie, Zoologisches Institut, Universitaet Zurich, SWITZERLAND, 5.3.1992

Widerspiegelt die Nestform der Ameisen ihre Staatsform? Schlussvortrag in: Baukultur, Wohnkultur und Oekologie. 5. Interdisziplinaeres Symposium, ETHZ und UNIZ (Umweltwissenschaften), Zurich, SWITZERLAND, 1.4.1992

Timor. Hortus Botanicus and National Natural History Museum, Leiden, THE NETHERLANDS, 6.4.1992

1991

Ants. Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London, U.K., 5.5.1991 Natural History of Indonesia. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, SWITZERLAND, 4.6.1991

Ants' diversity. University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA, 25.9.1991

Ameisen Entomologische Gesellschaft Zuerich, Zurich, SWITZERLAND, 15.11.1991

Ameisen Zoologisches Institut, Gruppe Neurobiologie, Universitat Zurich, Zurich, SWITZERLAND, 19.11.1991

Natural History and Conservation of Southern Moluccas. Hortus Botanicus and National Natural History Museum, Leiden, THE NETHERLANDS, 2.12.1991

Ziele und Methoden der Systematik. Roundtable at Zoologischen Institut, Universitat Zurich, SWITZERLAND, 12.12.1991.

1990

Ants Curtin, Perth, AUSTRALIA, 10.1990

Ants ANIC, Division of Entomology, CSIRO, Canberra, AUSTRALIA, 11.1990

Ants Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, U.S.A., 12.1990

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