Aktuel forskning

Udarbejdelse af kommenteret checkliste over Danmarks bier (Hymenoptera, Apoidea).

Primære forskningsområder

Arbejdsopgaver: Daglig leder af DanBIF

DanBIF (Danish Biodiversity Information Facility) er det danske medlemsknudepunkt i GBIF - The Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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Tidligere hverv

Koordinator af arbejdspakke nr.2 (WP2) under det EU finansierede Network of Excellence EDIT, fra 1.juni 2006 til 31. august 2007:
The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy EDIT er et fælles initiativ fra 27 ledende europæiske, nordamerikanske og russiske naturvidenskabelige institutioner på en opfordring fra Europakommissionen, udstedt 2004, om at oprette et netværk der adresserer «Taxonomy for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research». Projektet er startet 1. marts 2006 og varer 5 år.

EDIT WP2s mål inkluderer at:
- Skabe et overblik over Europas taxonomiske eksperter, deres ekspertiser, og igangværende & planlagte forskningsprojekter
- Levere information for at der nemmere kan identificeres og oprettes taxonomiske arbejdsgrupper der kan udføre specifikke forskningsprojekter identificeret i EDIT
- Gøre informationen om de taxonomiske eksperter, og deres viden og arbejdsområder, tilgængelig over internettet, med øje for en bred vifte af forskellige potentielle brugergrupper

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Interesseområder

- Biodiversitetsinformatik
- Solitære bier og humlebiers: Diversitet, Populationsøkologi, Adfærd, Taxonomi.

Sprogkundskaber

CV

Dr. Isabel Calabuig, Curriculum vitae as per November 2016:
Born 1970 in Denmark , Danish citizen, married, no children. Entomologist with PhD in biodiversity of insects in semi-natural habitats of agricultural landscapes. 8 years experience in teaching biology and population ecology. 17 years experience as node manager of DanBIF. 5 years as work package coordinator in EC-projects ENBI (European Network for Biodiversity Information) and EDIT (The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy).

Academic degrees and professional experience
2001- Node manager, DanBIF, Danish Participant Node of GBIF, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.

2006-2007 June 1 2006 through August 31 2007 on leave from DanBIF to act as Work Package coordinator (WP2) in EDIT - The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy, c/o Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen ?

2003-2005 In parallel to DanBIF work, managing Work Package 13 of the EC thematic network ENBI - European Network for Biodiversity Information.

2001 Co-editor on the successful Danish bid to host the secretariat of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, www.gbif.org and www.gbif.net) at the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

2000 Project assistant on EC project ENHSIN - European Natural History Specimen Information Network

1997-2000 PhD at Dept. of Population Ecology, University of Copenhagen, awarded in biodiversity of insects in semi-natural habitats of agricultural landscapes

1996 Research assistant, Dept. of Population Ecology, University of Copenhagen

1996 Lecturer in Ecology at the Danish University of Education

1995 M.Sc. biology, University of Copenhagen

Organization of conferences, participation in workshops and conferences as speaker (selection)
2008: DanBIF Conference on Biodiversity Informatics and Climate Change Impacts on Life

2007: DanBIF Conference on Biodiversity Informatics and the Barcode of Life

2006: DanBIF Conference on Biodiversity at the Ecosystem Level - patterns and processes, Århus (organiser and moderator)

2005: Lecturer at GBIF mentoring workshop in Accra Ghana, Dept. of botany, Univ. of Ghana: Introduction to GBIF and it's data portal, and to DanBIF, it's IT infrastructure and how to become a GBIF data provider

2004: DanBIF Conference on Molecular Biodiversity, Copenhagen (organiser)

2002: DanBIF Conference on Biodiversity Informatics. What is it, how can we deal with it, and for what may we use it? University of Southern Denmark, Odense (organiser)

Kommentarer til publikationsliste

Ph.D. Study: Solitary bees and bumblebees in a Danish agricultural landscape - See Google Scholar link in right-hand menu.
In my Ph.D. project I studied and clarified several aspects of the ecology and biology of solitary bees and bumblebees occurring in the fragmented semi-natural habitats of a Danish agricultural landscape:

• Behavioural adaptations in a solitary bee species, to reduce parasitism from a nest parasite.
• Foraging- and nesting conditions for wild bees in hedgerows, forest edges, field- borders and other linear and areal habitats.
• Seasonal activity and succession of bee species. 
• Species richness and relative abundance, including estimation of the actual number of species occurring in the agricultural landscape. 
• Dispersal patterns in a winter oilseed rape field, importance of bees in pollination and potential competition from honeybees.

Supervisor at the Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen: Associate Professor Mikael Münster-Swendsen (deceased).