aphid-plant associations

[neilcobb]

@jhpoelen You may have already queried this dataset

http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/C_HOSTS_AAIntro.htm

[jhpoelen]

@neilcobb thanks! Would you happen to know the person that curates this dataset?

[neilcobb]

@seltmann @jhpoelen

I assume it is Colin Favret http://aphid.speciesfile.org/HomePage/Aphid/HomePage.aspx

but Katja may know better than I do

[seltmann]

I believe it is Colin

[jhpoelen]

@ZekeMarshall also pointed to https://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info .

Any chance one of you can reach out to Colin, or current curator of the database and ask whether they are ok with GloBI indexing their web resource?

[ZekeMarshall]

Hi @jhpoelen , i've emailed Colin, it would be great if this made it in to GloBI, what a great resource!

[ZekeMarshall]

Unfortunatley Colin said that the information isn't in any kind of database format!

[neilcobb]

what form is the data in and can he just share it regardless?

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Unfortunatley Colin said that the information isn't in any kind of database format!

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[jhpoelen]

@ZekeMarshall thanks for reaching out to Colin. If he's eager to collaborate to get the aphid-plant associations indexed, we can probably make something work. How important is Colin's dataset to your work?

[ZekeMarshall]

@jhpoelen I don't think he's eager to collaborate and get the data indexed, I think it would be a huge job! The data isn't important to my own work, it's just such a fantastic source of information!

[ZekeMarshall]

@jhpoelen there is now a database containing this interactions data (https://floreon.eu/aphidweb/) and apparently there is an API. I haven't managed to create an account with the correct permissions yet, but I have emailed the database maintainer (Hana Platková) to ask for help and see whether she would be open to allowing the database to be indexed by GloBI.

[jhpoelen]

@ZekeMarshall thanks for sharing your link to "Electronic catalogue of aphid-plant ecology (eCAPE)" at https://floreon.eu/aphidweb/ .

Do you know how this project is related (if at all) to @neilcobb 's http://www.aphidsonworldsplants.info/C_HOSTS_AAIntro.htm reference?

[ZekeMarshall]

Hi @jhpoelen, according to Colin the database is derived from "Jaroslav Holman's database that led to the publication of his 2009 Host Plant Catalog of Aphids, Palearctic Region. Spinger. 1216 pp. ". In the aphidsontheworldsplants website it is stated that "many of the new host records for palaearctic aphids added since our 1994 and 2006 books are from the major work by Holman (2009)", so the aphidsontheworldsplants database includes the eCAPE data, whether eCAPE includes all of the aphidsontheworldsplants data i'm not sure. I'll ask Hana when/if she gets back to me!

[jhpoelen]

@ZekeMarshall thanks for sharing - neat to see how many databases seem to survive by reuse.