An insect species multimeter for troubleshooting landscape ecology

Description

Monitoring insect diversity and its decline can be a costly and time-consuming business, both in terms of trapping campaigns and post-capture identification. Automated approaches by distributed sensors could imply better coverage and
resolution in time and space, instant classification and potentially speed up the evaluation of insect decline mitigations. We present progress and current state of automated alternatives based on lasers and photonics. We can currently remotely
count hundreds of thousands of insects daily in the field, and retrieve their oscillatory properties individually and differentiate hundreds of taxonomic groups. How and why does it work? How well does it work? What are the advantages, challenges and limitations? What molecular, nano- and micro-structural features can be measured on free flying insects in nature, and to what extent can these observational features be used to distinguish species richness and taxonomic group?

Period	2024 Mar 15
Event title	Nordic Oikos 2024: New perspectives in ecological and evolutionary research
Event type	Conference
Location	Lund, SwedenShow on map