Project Description
The Arizona Sky Island Arthropod Project (ASAP) is a collaborative multi-disciplinary research program at the University of Arizona that combines systematics, biogeography, ecology, and population genetics to study origins and patterns of arthropod diversity among mountain ranges and along elevation gradients in the Madrean Sky Island Region. Arthropods represent taxonomically and ecologically diverse organisms that drive key ecosystem processes in this mountain archipelago. Using data from museum specimens and specimens we obtain during long-term collecting and monitoring programs, ASAP will document arthropod species across Arizona’s Sky Islands to address a number of fundamental questions about arthropods of this region. Baseline data will be used to determine climatic boundaries for target species, which will then be integrated with climatological models to predict future changes in arthropod communities and distributions in the wake of rapid climate change. ASAP also makes use of the natural laboratory provided by the Sky Islands to investigate ecological and genetic factors that influence diversification and patterns of community assembly.
Read more!Moore et al. 2013. Introduction to the Arizona Sky Island Arthropod Project (ASAP): systematics, biogeography, ecology and population genetics of arthropods of the Madrean Sky Islands. In: Merging science and management in a rapidly changing world: biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago III. 2012 May 1-5, Tucson, AZ. (G.J. Gottfried, P.F. Ffolliott, B.S. Gebow, L.G. Eskew, compilers). Proceedings RMRS-P-67. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
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Brusca, R.C., J.F. Wiens, W.M. Meyer, J. Eble, K. Franklin, J. T. Overpeck, W. Moore. 2013. Dramatic Response to Climate Change in the Southwest: Robert Whittaker’s 1963 Arizona Mountain Plant Transect Revisited. Ecology and Evolution 3(10): 3307–3319.
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Meyer, W.M, J. Eble, K. Franklin, R.B. McManus, S.L. Brantley, J. Henkel, P.E. Marek, W.E. Hall, C.A. Olson, R. McInroy, E.M. Bernal Loaiza, R.C. Brusca, and W. Moore. 2015. Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Communities of a Sky Island Mountain Range in Southeastern Arizona, USA: Obtaining a Baseline for Assessing the Effects of Climate Change. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0135210. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135210
Gomez, R.A., J. R. Reddell, K.W. Will, W. Moore. 2016. Up high and down low: Molecular systematics and insight into the diversification of the ground beetle genus Rhadine LeConte. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 98:161-175. Download pdf.
Schaller, J.C., G. Davidowitz, D.R. Papaj, R.L. Smith, Y. Carrière, W. Moore. 2018. Molecular phylogeny, ecology and multispecies aggregation behaviour of bombardier beetles in Arizona. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205192.
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Palting, J., D.C. Ferguson, W. Moore. 2018. A new species of Hypoprepia from the mountains of central Arizona (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini). ZooKeys 788: 19–38. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.788.26885
Yanahan, A.D. and W. Moore 2019. Impacts of 21st‐century climate change on montane habitat in the Madrean Sky Island Archipelago.
Diversity and Distributions DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12965
Gomez, R.A., J. R. Reddell, K.W. Will, W. Moore. 2016. Up high and down low: Molecular systematics and insight into the diversification of the ground beetle genus Rhadine LeConte. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 98:161-175. Download pdf.
Schaller, J.C., G. Davidowitz, D.R. Papaj, R.L. Smith, Y. Carrière, W. Moore. 2018. Molecular phylogeny, ecology and multispecies aggregation behaviour of bombardier beetles in Arizona. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205192.
Highlighted by PBS NOVA and AAAS Science Update
Palting, J., D.C. Ferguson, W. Moore. 2018. A new species of Hypoprepia from the mountains of central Arizona (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini). ZooKeys 788: 19–38. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.788.26885
Yanahan, A.D. and W. Moore 2019. Impacts of 21st‐century climate change on montane habitat in the Madrean Sky Island Archipelago.
Diversity and Distributions DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12965
Image Gallery: Beetles of the Santa Catalina Mountains