Eastern persius duskywing: COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 14

Acknowledgements

Funding for this work has been provided by Environment Canada and Jacques Whitford Environment Limited. Information from the following was greatly appreciated: Jodie Allair, Rob Alvo, Peter Banks, Wasyl Bakowsky, Irene Bowman, Peter Carson, Joe Connop, Bob Curry, Sid Daniels, Chris Durden, Mary Gartshore, Ron Gatrelle, Gloria Goulet, Alan Hanks, Quimby Hess, Brad Hubley, Colin Jones, Norbert Kondla, Don Lafontaine, Ross Layberry, Steve Marshall, Mogens Nielsen, Mike Oldham, Rick Pratt, Tom Purdy, Richard Romeyn, Dale Schweitzer, Jeff Skevington, Brad Steinberg, Don Sutherland, Dorothy Tiedje, Jim Troubridge, Kelly Vader, Nancy van der Poorten, Steve Williams, Allen Woodliffe, Alan Wormington. Assistance with fieldwork was kindly provided by Andrea Kingsley, Mary Gartshore, Carl Rothfels, Melody Cairns and Annie Scherz. Access to collections was kindly provided by: Don Lafontaine, Canadian National Collection; Steve Marshall, University of Guelph; Brad Hubley, Royal Ontario Museum; Tom Purdy, Pinery Provincial Park Collection; and Sid Daniels, private collection. Other collection data were drawn from the distributed data network entitled “Species Analyst”, a project of the North American Biodiversity Information Network, and participating institutions (CBIF 2002). All relevant collections were reviewed for data pertaining to Erynnis persius in Ontario (see below). Andrea Kingsley and Ron Huizer, various members of the Arthropods Specialist Subcommittee, as well as staff from the Ontario regional office of the Canadian Wildlife Service and from the Ontario Ministry of Natural resources commented on various drafts of this report. Theresa Fowler coordinated the review of the report, provided numerous comments and suggestions, and edited the report.


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Biographical Summary of Report Writer

Matt Holderis a biologist at Jacques Whitford Limited. Mr. Holder has over ten years of work and research experience in biology, particularly ecology, encompassing many plant and animal taxa. His research interests include ecology of animals and plants in disturbed environments, landscape ecology and systematics of certain animal taxa.

Mr. Holder’s past work relating to species-at-risk include field surveys of rare insects in Maritime peatlands for the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, creation and maintenance of a species-at-risk database for the Ontario Natural Heritage Information Centre, and the development of a records database for dragonflies and damselflies in Ontario; Mr. Holder was also on a committee charged with providing conservation ranks for Ontario dragonflies and damselflies. He has conducted projects on insect ecology and distribution at many locations in eastern North America, examining many different taxa, including butterflies and moths, dragonflies and damselflies, grasshoppers, and certain groups of beetles and flies.

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