Bermingham's Lab

Research

Mapping Biodiversity in Central America

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following scientists for their time and expertise in helping us with the identification, taxonomy and/or range distribution of the fishes whose museum records were used in this study:

Heidi Banford (most families), Daniel Fromm (rivulines), Jon Armbruster (Loricaridae), Guy Reeves (Brycon, Hemibrycon and related genera), Swen Kullander (cichlidae), Cesar Roman (fishes of Colombia), Ana Isabel Perdices (peripheral fish families and genera).

Geoinfo, S.A. graciously allowed us the use of their commercial data product PANPAIS - digital ArcView shape files of the country at the scale of 1:250,000 projected to UTM Zone 17.

CyberTech, S.A. supplied us with high quality 1:250,000 digital maps of Panama for the exclusive use in our project.

ESRI Latin America donated a copy of PC ARC/INFO 3.4.2 and ArcView 3.0 for use in the study.

The ESRI Conservation Program provided one of us (V.A.) with free training at the ESRI Learning Center.

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Authors

Dr. Vijay Aswani Researcher

Dr. Eldredge Bermingham Staff Scientist

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