acknowledgements
Mountain Goats (Oreamnos americanus), photo by Fred Lang
E-Fauna BC is a collaborative, volunteer-driven project supported by many agencies and individuals. This strong support and recognition of a vision for compiling and presenting scientifically accurate information on BC wildlife in a single location has made E-Fauna possible. We would like to express our thanks and appreciation to the many individuals and agencies, and in particular to the many photogaphers whose contributions have helped made BC's wildlife visible.
In particular, we woud like to thank the Royal BC Museum and Jim Cosgrove for providing permissions to bring several Museum publications online via E-Fauna BC. This material significantly kick-started the atlas project and allowed us to publish atlas pages for sea stars, sea cucumbers, mosquitoes, barnacles, crabs, and several mammal groups. We would also like to extend a special thank you to Aaron Baldwin, who has provided many of our marine invertebrates species checklists, hundreds of photos covering these, and several key introductions to marine invertebrate groups. Aaron has been a major driving force behind our marine invertebrates material. Similarly, Jamie Fenneman has contributed significantly to E-Fauna in so many ways. He provides our bird atlas pages, our provicial bird checklists, hundreds of photos of several groups, and key introductions to the bird of BC. Insects on E-Fauna BC has been significantly developed through the contributions of Geoff Scudder and Rob Cannings, who have provided us with their unpublished manuscript on the Insect Families of BC and allowed us to bring this online. This has allowed us to present dozens of key introductions to insect groups in BC, and is a significant contribution of a major unpublished work.
We would also like to extend a special thank you to the Royal Ontario Musem for permissions to use material from John Reynold's Earthworms of Ontario book, and to the BC Ministry of Environment and the BC Ministry of Agriculture for providing distribution mapping for many BC species.
E-FAUNA ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Aaron Baldwin, Dick Cannings, Jamie Fenneman, Patrick Gregory, Cris Guppy, Wayne Maddison, Brent Matsuda, Karen Needham, Leah Ramsay, David Shackleton, Eric Taylor, Pamela Zevit, Ross Vennesland.
ADDITIONAL SPECIES ADVISORS
John Acorn, Aaron Baldwin, Valerie Behan-Pelletier, Peter Belton, Robb Bennett, Mark Brigham, Anita Brinckmann-Voss, Rob Cannings, Marilyn Clayton, Jim Cosgrove, Daphne Fautin, Robert Forsyth, Graham Gillespie, Gordon Green, Robert Higgins, Glen Jamieson, Rex Kenner, Philip Lambert, Staffan Lindgren, Evert Lindquist, Zoe Lindo, Don McPhail, Sandra Millen, James Miskelly, David Nagorsen, Peter Olesiuk, Kristiina Ovaska, Alex Peden, Lisa Poirier, John Reynolds, Kelly Sendall, Chris Schmidt, Rob Vandermoor, David Walter, King Wu.
PHOTO REVIEWERS
Aaron Baldwin, Robb Bennett, Matthias Buck, Rob Cannings, Jamie Fenneman, Robert Forsyth, Jeremy Gatten, Gordon Green, Patrick Gregory, Cris Guppy, Rob Higgins, Philip Lambert, Staffan Lindgren, Brent Matsuda, Sandra Millen, Gil Miranda, James Miskelly, David Nagorsen, Karen Needham, Kristiina Ovaska, Greg Pohl, David Shackleton, Chris Schmidt, Jeff Skevington, Eric Taylor, Robbin Thorp, Andrew Young.
PROJECT AUTHORS
(atlas pages, wildlife introductions, checklists)
Many specialists have donated their time towards preparing atlas pages, introductory essays and species checklists for E-Fauna BC. Through these contributons they have made E-Fauna work. A special thank you to each of them:
Aaron Baldwin-- Marine invertebrates, including crabs, flatworms, and more.
Vicky Baker--Wildlife Resources
Peter Belton--Mosquitoes
Robb Bennett--Spiders
Mark Brigham--Mammals -- bats intro and atlas pages
Rob Cannings--Insects
Tom Carefoot--Marine Invertebrates--atlas page notes
Jim Cosgrove--Octopuses and Squids
Neil Davis--Marine Protected Areas and Climate Change
Don Doyle--Mammals--Vancouver Island Marmot page
Matt Fairbarns--Garry Oak Ecosystems
Jamie Fenneman--Birds-- Intro & Checklists, bird atlas pages
Robert Forsyth--Land Snails -- atlas pages and checklist
Lea Gelling--Molluscs--freshwater mussels
Gordon Green--Cladocerans, Ostracods, Shrimps, Sea Anemones Intro
Hugh Griffith--Amphibians, Reptiles, Nature Notes
Cris Guppy--Butterflies -- atlas pages and checklist
Robert Higgins--Ant checklist
Rick Howie--Birds (Kamloops checklist)
Glen Jamieson--Corals Intro and checklist
Richard Klafki--Mammals--Badger page
Philip Lambert--Sea Stars, Sea Cucumbers, Marine Invasive Species article
Sally Leys--Glass Sponges of BC
Staffan Lindgren--Ants--Intro and checklists
Evert Lindquist--Ticks--intro and checklist
Zoe Lindo--Mites--checklist
Brent Matsuda--Amphibian atlas pages and photo reviews
Sandra Millen--Nudibranchs
Don McPhail--Freshwater Fish checklist and Maps
Dave Nagorsen--Mammals--checklists (Bats, Shrews and Moles) and Intro.
Alex Peden--Marine Fish checklist
Peter Olesiuk--Marine Mammals (Pinnepeds) -- atlas pages and intro (Pinnipeds)
Kristiina Ovaska--Reptiles -- atlas pages
John Reynolds--Earthworms
-- intro and atlas pages
Pam Rutherford--Snakes--atlas pages
Mike Sarell--Reptiles--Rubber Boa page
Geoff Scudder--Insects (many groups) checklists and intros
Kelly Sendall--Sea Anemones (checklist)
Lennart Sopuck--Reptiles --Great Basin Gopher Snake page
David Shackleton--Mammals--Hoofed Mammals atlas pages + Cougar atlas page
Rick Toochin--Birds (checklists)
Krysia Tuttle--Reptiles--garter snake pages
Robert Vandermore--Moths (intro)
Dave Walter --Mites--Introduction page
King Wu--Ticks (checklist)
ADDITONAL PROJECT VOLUNTEERS AND PARTICIPANTS
Thank you to the following folks for helping out in a variety of ways: Libby Avis, Lauraine Baillie, Vicky Baker, Kevin deBoer, Eric Lofroth, Alan McConchie, Tim Philpott, Kaoru Tachiiri, Rosemary Taylor.
And a particular thank you to our more than 250 photographers whose works make E-Fauna BC come alive. Visit our photo gallery for a complete list of photographers contributing to the project. They are the window to our widlife.
MAJOR FUNDERS
SUPPORTING and CONTRIBUTING PARTNERS
Our project partners contribute to the development of E-Fauna BC in so many ways, from data provision to student support. Thank you!
CURRENT PROGRAMMERS AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Computer Programmers: Walter Sinclair and Alan McConchie
GIS Specialist: Claire Wooton
PAST PROGRAMMERS and TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Our thanks go to Devon Cathers, Bill Liang, Chen Liu, John Sture, and Stanley Tian for magical general programming, and to Wayne Kwok, Luan Vo, and Rachel Wiersma for GIS and mapping programming. Without these programmers, E-Flora BC would not exist. Thanks, too, to Vincent Kujula for network support, and, often, rescue.
Please cite these pages as:
Author, date, page title. In: Klinkenberg, Brian. (Editor) 2011. E-Fauna BC: Electronic Atlas of the Fauna of British Columbia [www.efauna.bc.ca]. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. [Date Accessed]
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