Danielle Salcido

Danielle Salcido

Apr 02, 2018

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Extended deadline and thank you from Beto...

Hi all! I am pleased to announce a few bits of good news: First, Experiment.com gave us a one-time 10-day extension for the campaign! Second, yesterday we raised over $1139 or ~20% of the proposed budget as people came to support with the former 24-hr deadline. It is amazing to see how quickly and generously people responded to my request for help. I appreciate all of your help so much and was very encouraged to see the increased pledges before the deadline. Some of you increased your pledge and some pledges came from brand new donors. Now with the extension, I am hopeful we can raise the rest of this! Beto sent me a video today expressing his appreciation, which I thought I would share with you. He also sent an image of the parasitoids collected during the February research trip (see vials below). In total, we collected 91 immature Lepidoptera on this expedition, 19 of which were parasitized (~20% parasitized). Keeping in mind that includes 91 plant-herbivore interactions as wells as 19 herbivore- parasitoid interactions. Please continue to spread the word about our campaign to your friends, family, and colleagues. And again, thank you so much for supporting science research!

Preserved parasitoid specimens from the February trip to La Selva.



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  • RebeccaDTung
    RebeccaDTung
    Great! Best of luck, of course!
    Apr 03, 2019
  • Ronald Parry
    Ronald ParryBacker
    That's terrific news!! I'm really hoping you succeed! Best wishes, Ron
    Apr 02, 2018
  • Danielle Salcido
    Danielle SalcidoResearcher
    Thanks Ron! Yes I was very happy to learn that we had extended time! If I succeed I can honestly say it wouldn't have been without your contribution. Thanks, for watching the progress of this campaign and rooting for us to its end.
    Apr 02, 2018

About This Project

Parasitoid diversity is rapidly declining in La Selva Costa Rica, yet many species remain undescribed limiting our ability to understand how local extinction of parasitoids will impact ecosystem function and stability. Here, we explore the hypothesis that increased frequency of extreme weather events negatively affects tropical plant-insect-parasitoid interactions by measuring the impact of flooding on parasitism rates and interaction diversity.

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