Adam Brunke

Adam James Brunke (born January 8, 1986 ) is a Canadian coleopterologist . His main research interests are the short-winged species (Staphylinidae).

Life

After studying from January 2007 to December 2011, Brunke obtained a Master of Science degree in ecology from the University of Guelph . For his master's thesis, he researched short-winged populations in soybean agrarian ecosystems and developed an identification guide on the short-winged birds of eastern Canada in the online publication Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification . From February 2012, he studied Biosystematics at the University of Copenhagen , where he in June 2015 with a dissertation on the diversity, evolution and historical biogeography of a mega-diverse Rove lineage in the northern hemisphere for Ph.D. received his doctorate. He then worked for a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Natural History Museum Vienna .

Brunke has been a research fellow at the Canadian Department of Agriculture (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, AAFC) and the Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Center (ECORC) since 2016.

Brunke's main interest is in the Neotropical and Asiatic species of the genus Bolitogyrus . Together with his mentor Alexei Jurjewitsch Solodownikow , curator of the beetle collection at the Statens Naturhistoriske Museum in Copenhagen , and other international experts, he investigated the question of whether this genus originated in South America or in Southeast Asia. They examined collections of beetles in numerous museums to find and identify all existing species of this genus. They traveled to the American and Southeast Asian tropics to collect additional samples, particularly for DNA analysis. The study concluded that the genus originated from an intercontinental arctic forest belt between Asia and North America.

Brunke's expertise includes taxonomy, systematics, identification tools, phylogenetic analysis, fossil analysis, morphological 3D analysis, evolution and biogeography of various species of raven-winged species. His research projects include assessing the interactions and effects between invasive alien species, farming practices, and arthropod biodiversity, developing a national arthropod information system through Canada's National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, expert identification, advice and training, and development of systematic knowledge of pests, useful arthropods and environmentally sensitive arthropods.

In 2013 Brunke was at the work Synopsis of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from Canada. Part 2: Staphylinidae involved. He is also a scientific editor for the journals Zootaxa , Zookeys and Insecta Mundi .

Brunke described over 60 new species from the genera Bolitogyrus , Aleochara , Dinaraea and Atheta .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Adam J. Brunke, Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Brian D. Metscher, Karin Wolf-Schwenninger, Alexey Solodovnikov: Dispersal of thermophilic beetles across the intercontinental Arctic forest belt during the early Eocene Scientific Reports 7: 12972, 2017 doi: 10.1038 / s41598-017 -13207-4

personal data
SURNAME	Brunke, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brunke, Adam James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian coleopterologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1986

[1] Adam J. Brunke, Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Brian D. Metscher, Karin Wolf-Schwenninger, Alexey Solodovnikov: Dispersal of thermophilic beetles across the intercontinental Arctic forest belt during the early Eocene Scientific Reports 7: 12972, 2017 doi: 10.1038 / s41598-017 -13207-4