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Parasitic arthropods inflict an an enormous burden on human society, in terms human health and agricultural impact. The negative effects of parasitic arthropods appears to be increasing as climates and ecosystems change. From the historical impact of flea transmitted bubonic plague, to mosquito borne diseases such as malaria and dengue, to tick transmitted Lyme, arthropod vectors have delivered disease to hundreds of millions of people. Arthropod-borne pathogens can also have a significant impact on our liv

Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) will mobilize non-digitally and digitally captured vector and ectoparasite collections to data aggregators (e.g., iDigBio Hub, GBIF) to help build a comprehensive picture of ectoparasite host-association evolution, distributions, and the ecological interactions of disease vectors which will assist scientists, educators, land managers, and policy makers.

A major goal of NSF’s Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program (ADBC; https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15576/nsf15576.pdf ) is to “improve access to digitized information residing in vouchered collections across the United States”. Although significant progress towards this large-scale effort has been made, many collections still lack available resources for specimen-level digitization, and thus remain inaccessible to broader user communities. Additionally, other collections may have signi

Links to parasitetracker.org (4)

• scan-bugs.org SCAN Home
• scan-all-bugs.org SCAN Support Site – Symbiota2 Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN)
• lep-net.org SCAN Support Site – Symbiota2 Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN)
• jhpoelen.nl Jorrit H. Poelen